Calvin Prasad

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Calvin Prasad
Born (1980-03-11) March 11, 1980 (age 44)
Title Candidate Master (2009)
Peak rating 2028 (October 2012)

Calvin Prasad (born March 11, 1980) is an Indo-Fijian chess player. He is the first male chess player to earn a Candidate Master (CM) title for the small chess community of Fiji. [1]

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He has represented Fiji four times in international tournaments, in 2003 at the Fiji Invitational Chess Championships, in 2004 at the Zonal Championships in Auckland, New Zealand, [2] and twice at the Chess Olympiad, (Mallorca 2004 and Turin 2006). [3]

He is also a Former National Champion (2004) of Fiji and has had many tournament victories. [1] He is the defending champion of the Kundan Singh Open Chess Championship. [4]

For the past 4 years, he has also served on the management board of the Fiji Chess Federation, of which he is currently the vice-president.

Prasad was voted the National Male Athlete of 2006. [5]

In 2011, Prasad won the Fiji National Chess Championships and became Fiji National Chess Champion. He last won this title in 2004. [6] Prasad was also awarded the '2011 Player of the Year Award'.2011 Player of the Year award went to last year's national champion CM Calvin Prasad

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Calvin Prasad is an AI & Digital specialist based in Suva, Fiji. He is currently a Digital Media Specialist with Fijian Broadcasting Corporation and an External Academic with University of the South Pacific. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Prasad is Fiji's first CM". fijichess.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007.
  2. ↑ Prasad is Fiji's National Athlete of the Year at fijichess.com, accessed 2008-01-25 Archived October 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Prasad, Calvin team chess record at olimpbase.org
  4. ↑ Kumar, Manoj (17 February 2011). "Fiji Chess Federation open championship". Fiji Times. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  5. ↑ "Karate kid wins for dad". Fiji Times . 1 April 2007. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 24 April 2007.
  6. ↑ "Prasad bags chess title". Archived from the original on 2012-07-31.
  7. ↑ "About - Calvin Prasad". 2023-02-20. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
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