Dhyani Dave

Dhyani Dave (born August 21, 1991 in Gujarat) is an Indian Chess player. She holds the Woman International Master title.[1]

She has won gold medals at the Under 14 Asian Chess Championship and the Under 16 Commonwealth Chess Championship. She is a silver medalist at the Under 10 Asian Championship and the Under 12 Commonwealth Championship. In August 2012, she played with 150 rated chess players at Mahatma Mandir, Gujarat and entered in Limca Book of Records.[2]

At the age of nine she played Bollywood star and chess enthusiast Aamir Khan on the set of the film Lagaan.[3]

In 2018 she alleged that gender bias by the Gujarat state in denying her a government job had also impacted her chess career.[4]

She is an owner of the Dhyan Chess Academy in Ahmedabad where she teaches. In 2019 she won in the Sports category of the iWoman Global Awards.[5]

References
  1. "FIDE Title Applications (GM, IM, WGM, WIM, IA, FA, IO)". ratings.fide.com.
  2. Correspondent, dna (August 28, 2012). "Chess in Gujarat flourishing: Viswanathan Anand". DNA India.
  3. "When a nine-year old beat Aamir Khan at chess". Chessbase India. 18 January 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  4. "GUJARAT'S FIRST FEMALE INTERNATIONAL CHESS MASTER DHYANI DAVE ALLEGES GENDER BIAS BY THE STATE GOVERNMENT". Ahmedabad Mirror. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  5. "iWGA Winners 2019 - Dhyani Dave". iWGA. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
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