Nihal Sarin Biography and Career
Nihal Sarin, an Indian chess prodigy who achieved grandmaster status at the age of 14, is currently ranked among his nation’s top 10 players (as of April 2021). In this article we are going to talk about the biography, career, notable works, and family of Nihal Sarin so read the article till the end.
Nihal took home the U-10 World Blitz Championship that year. He won the U-10 World Youth Chess Championship the following year with a score of 9/11.
Nihal Sarin achieved remarkable success in 2020. He won the U-18 World Youth Championship, the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by Chess.com, and the gold medal won by the Indian team in the FIDE Chess Olympics. A peak FIDE rating of 2620 was also attained by him in February of that same year.
Training and career
Mathew P. Joseph Pottoore, Nihal’s first coach, introduced him to the game and helped him develop a passion for it. He was then assisted in honing his abilities by Mr. M.B. Muralidharan, Prof. N.R. Anil Kumar, Mr. C.T. Pathrose, and K.K. Manikantan. From 2013 to 2015, E.P. Nirmal trained Nihal, assisting him in transitioning from a young prospect to a rising player.
From 2013 through 2019, Dimitri Komarov served as his trainer. Since 2016, he has collaborated with Srinath Narayanan. Since 2016, Nihal has started developing his game on his own. Nihal has been receiving instruction from Viswanathan Anand as a member of the WestBridge-Anand Chess Academy since late 2020.
Short biography of Nihal Sarin
Nihal Sarin was born on July 13, 2004, in Thrissur, Kerala, India. Nihal’s mother, Shijin Ammanam Veetil Ummar, is a psychiatrist, and his father, Sarin Abdulsalam, is a dermatologist. His early years were spent in Kottayam.
At the age of six, Nihal started playing chess. When Nihal was a student at Kottayam’s Excelsior English School, his father gave him a chess set and his grandfather A. A. Ummar taught him the rules so that he wouldn’t be bored during the summer months. Nihal had formal instruction in chess from Mathew P. Joseph Pottoore, the school’s chess coach, who first gave lessons once a week.
He competed simultaneously against 112 players of all ages in Thodupuzha, Kerala, when he was 10 years old, winning every game.
In March 2015, he also participated as a special guest contestant in the Malayalam TV game program Aswamedham. Nihal periodically conducts Simultaneous Exhibitions in an effort to spread the game of chess among amateur players.
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Random biography facts about Nihal Sarin
Nihal Sarin was one of the beneficiaries of the “National Child Award For Exceptional Achievement” given by the then-President of India, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, on Children’s Day in 2016.
Nihal frequently makes appearances on the streams of well-known YouTubers like Samay Raina to promote charity giving.
2013’s World Blitz Championship in Al-Under-10 Ain’s division saw Nihal win the gold medal.
GM Shant Sargsyan of Armenia was defeated by Nihal in the Under-18 division of the World Online Youth Championships 2020, 1.5: 0.5.
Nihal Sarin competed in the TATA Steel Challengers event for the first time in January 2020 and finished with a score of 7.0/13 to tie for sixth place. The Indian chess team that won the 2020 FIDE Online Chess Olympiad included Nihal as a key player.
Nihal won the chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship in October 2021 by outplaying Raunak Sadhwani 17.5 to 10.5 in the final.
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