Aditi Soondarsingh

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Aditi Soondarsingh
Country Trinidad and Tobago
Born1988 (age 3536)
Barataria, Trinidad and Tobago
Title Woman Candidate Master (2014)
FIDE   rating 1687 (November 2018)
Peak rating 1867 (October 2008)

Aditi Soondarsingh (born 1988) is a women's chess player from Barataria, Trinidad and Tobago. Soondarsingh is the National Women's Chess Champion, having won the Women's half of Trinidad and Tobago Chess Championship eight times. [1]

She holds the FIDE title of Woman Candidate Master and has represented Trinidad and Tobago as the Board 1 player at a number of World Chess Olympiads. In 2012, Soondarsinngh became the first women's chess player from Trinidad and Tobago and the second English caribbean speaking women's player to defeat a Women's International Master at a major team tournament. [2]

Soondarsingh has represented Trinidad and Tobago at the World Youth Championship in France. [3] She has also played in tournaments in El Salvador, Barbados, [4] Venezuela, and in India for the Commonwealth Games.

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References

  1. "Sondarsingh retains Women's Crown a record eight times". The Trinidad Guardian. 16 November 2012. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013.
  2. "Soondarsingh scores upset at Chess Olympiad". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. 20 September 2012. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  3. Khan, Nasser (21 October 2012). "Aditi Soondarsingh champion chess player". Trinidad and Tobago Guardian.
  4. "Maria Thomas relegated to 2nd place in 2nd Margaret Prince Celebration Chess tourney". Kaiteur News Online. 28 January 2013.