Chess.FM India Weekly Saturday show – Interview with WGM Dronavalli Harika
Chess.FM India’s weekly Saturday Show at 7.00 PM IST, 14th July 2007, presents an Interview with World Under-18 Champion WGM Dronavalli Harika. Sixteen year old Harika who hails from Andhra Pradesh has also moved to the 15th spot in the World Women rankings.
The weekly Saturday show is hosted by the Indian Chess critic Arvind Aaron features also includes “India this Week”, “Hot Events” and Up coming tournaments across India. Under Hot events we have Anand’s commanding victory in the “Magistral City of León” tournament where he beat Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria 3-1, on the same day of Federer’s wimbledon win.
India this week looks at the National Under-25 championship, FIDE rated opens at Mangalore & Kochi, the Indian Sub junior talent in action at the Asian Under-16 in Tashkent, the Dubai Juniors and much more.
You can listen to Chess.fm India directly heard through the web browsers at http://www.chessclub.com/chessfm/India.asx for much more shows and game videos too. The previous Saturday show guests include former World Junior champion GM Harikrishna, World’s youngest Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi, Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda, Indian Women champion WGM Tania Sachdev, GM Dibyendu Barua.
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She’s very talented.
talking of prodigies from India – Humpy just won her second straight open tournament (Kaupthing Open in Luxemburg) after winning at Hilversum a couple of weeks ago. She should get about 11 points from this win which, combined with Hilversum, will take her to about 2599!