| Bhakti Kulkarni | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | India | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 May 1992 Goa, India | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Peak rating | 2429 (August 2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Bhakti Kulkarni (born 19 May 1992) [1] is an Indian chess player. She received the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2012 [2] [3] and International Master (IM) in 2019. She is the recipient of Arjuna Award for her contribution to chess
In 2011, she won the Asian Junior Chess Championship. [4] In 2013, she was the first at the international women's chess tournament in Czech Republic — Open Vysočina. [5] In 2016, she won the Asian Chess Women Championship. [6]
Played for Indian team in the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship, in which she participated twice (2009, 2016). In the individual competition won the bronze (2009) medal. [7]
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