{"id":2831,"date":"2012-03-02T05:59:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T05:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2012-03-02T05:59:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T05:59:35","slug":"krishnan-sasikiran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2831","title":{"rendered":"Krishnan Sasikiran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/Chess\/krishnan-sasikiran.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Krishnan Sasikaran\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/><strong>Name of the Sportsperson:<\/strong> Krishnan Sasikiran<br \/><strong><br \/>Discipline:<\/strong> Chess<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of Birth: <\/strong>7 January 1981<\/p>\n<p><strong>State: <\/strong>Chennai<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements and Awards<br \/><\/strong><br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 2001, he won the prestigious Hasting International Chess tournament. <br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 2003, he won the 4th Asian Individual Championship as well as the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 2006 he won a gold medal in Asian Games team event.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In December 2008, he won City of Pamplona international chess tournament<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In October 2011, he won clear first in the open section of the 15th Corsican Circuit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>Facts about Krishnan Sasikiran<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He earned the Grandmaster title at the 2000 Commonwealth Championships<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>Profile<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Grandmaster P. Harikrishna was born on May 10, 1986 in Andhra Pradesh. Harikrishna shot into national prominence in 1996, when he became the first Indian to win the under-10 world chess championship in Menorca, Spain. After moving up higher in the ELO Rating, he was called upon to become the member of the Indian National Team to take part at the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. <\/p>\n<p>In 2004, P.Harikrishna became the second Indian, after Viswanathan Anand, to be crowned Junior World Chess Champion. Throughout his illustrious career, the unassuming Harikrishna has earned comparison with veteran chess player Anand and replaced him as the youngest Indian Grandmaster in 2001. Harikrishna holds the record of being the youngest Indian Super Grandmaster. After Anand, Harikrishna is only the second Indian to be placed in the highest echelons of world chess.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/Chess\/krishnan-sasikiran.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Krishnan Sasikaran\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/><strong>Name of the Sportsperson:<\/strong> Krishnan Sasikiran<br \/><strong><br \/>Discipline:<\/strong> Chess<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of Birth: <\/strong>7 January 1981<\/p>\n<p><strong>State: <\/strong>Chennai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[1236,1338],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-chess-profiles","tag-asian-games","tag-krishnan-sasikiran"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Krishnan Sasikiran - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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