Padmini Rout (born 5 January 1994) is an Indian chess player. She holds the titles of International Master (IM)[1] and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).[2] She is a four-time National Women's Premier title holder consecutively from 2014-2017[3] and was the Asian women's champion of 2018.[4]
Padmini Rout | |
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![]() Padmini Rout, Vlissingen 2009 | |
Country | India |
Born | (1994-01-05) 5 January 1994 (age 28) Barambagarh, Odisha, India |
Title | International Master (2015) Woman Grandmaster (2007) |
FIDE rating | 2345 (December 2021) |
Peak rating | 2454 (March 2015) |
Rout was honoured with the Biju Patnaik Sports Award for the year 2007 and the Ekalavya Award in 2009.[5]
In 2005 Rout won her first national title, under-11 girls at Nagpur. In 2006, she was both the Indian under-13 girls champion and the Asian under-12 girls champion.[6] Rout won the U14 girls' section of both Asian[7] and World Youth Chess Championships in 2008. The following year she finished first in the Asian Junior (Under-20) Girls Championship.[8] In 2010, she won the Indian junior (U19) girls championship[6] and took the bronze medal at both Asian[9] and World Junior Girls Championships.[10][11]
In the Asian Individual Women's Championship 2011 she tied for 2nd–6th places[12] and won it in 2018.[13] Rout won the Indian Women's Championship in 2014,[14] 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2015, she also became the Commonwealth women's champion.[15]
Rout played for the Indian national team at Women's Chess Olympiad, Women's World Team Chess Championship and Women's Asian Team Chess Championship.[16] She won an individual gold medal playing on the reserve board at the 2014 Women's Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway.[17] She has been part of the Indian women's team in the subsequent Chess Olympiads in 2016 at Baku, Azerbaijan[18] and 2018 at Batumi, Georgia.[19]
Born in Barambagarh, Odisha,[20][21] Padmini started playing chess at the age of 9 (2003) because of her father Dr. Ashok Kumar Rout's passion for the game. She did her schooling from D.A.V. Public School, Chandrasekharpur and graduated in Commerce from BJB College in Bhubaneswar.
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Preceded by Vo Thi Kim Phung |
Women's Asian Chess Champion 2018 |
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Indian Woman Grandmasters | |
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Chess players for India with the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) | |
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