Tania Sachdev

Tania Sachdev, born in Delhi in 1986,
is an Indian International Master, Woman Grandmaster, commentator and author.
She enjoyed considerable success from an early age, winning the Indian Under-12 Girls’ Championship,
the Asian Under-14 Girls’ Championship in 2000 and the Asian Junior Girls’ Championship in 2002.
She also won a bronze medal at the 1998 World Under-12 Girls’ Championship.
In 2005, Sachdev became the eighth Indian woman to earn the Woman Grandmaster title.
She won the Indian Women’s Championship in 2006 and 2007 and was crowned Asian Women’s Champion in 2007.
She earned the International Master title in 2008 and reached her peak rating of 2443 in September 2013.
Sachdev later won the Commonwealth Women’s Championship three times
and was part of the Indian women’s team that claimed its historic first gold medal at the 2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest.
Alongside her playing career, she is internationally renowned as a chess commentator and presenter.