Prasad Wants Chess Competition Introduced In Schools
It has always been chess for Tanvi Prasad.
Saturday 24 December 2022 | 16:40
Tanvi Prasad won the women’s division at the Vodafone national chess championship at the Olympic House, Suva on December 20, 2022. Photo: Sereana Salalo
It has always been chess for Tanvi Prasad.
Her dad Ravikesh Prasad and brothers Yash and Rudr all play chess. Being the only girl in the family she had to mellow to chess.
“You can say that chess is in my blood, it was always been chess for me,” Prasad said.
Last Tuesday the 16-year-old won the women’s national championship for the first time by tie-break over Jacquelyn Masilomani with 4/7.
The Year 11 Jai Narayan College student has been playing chess the past 10 years when she was in kindergarten.
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Story by: sereana.salalo@fijisun.com.fj
