Junior Speed Chess Championship: Nihal Beats Checa On Eve Of FIDE World Cup

Junior Speed Chess Championship Nihal Beats Checa On Eve Of FIDE World Cup

Question: Recently Nihal Sarin was in news. He beat whom in chess junior speed chess championship?
(a) Nicholas Checa
(b) Karthick Venkatrama
(c) Nitish Belurkar
(d) Magnus Carlsen
Answer: (a)
Related Facts:

  • After just arriving in Sochi, Russia, for the FIDE World Cup, GM Nihal Sarin beat GM Nicholas Checa in the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid.
  • Playing from his hotel, the Indian prodigy won in all three time controls.
  • It’s one of the perks of online competitions: you can play them from anywhere as long as your internet connection is good enough.
  • Nihal (@NihalSarin on Chess.com), who had just won two strong open tournaments in a row in Serbia from where he had flown to Sochi for the FIDE World Cup, played his match with Checa.

BY: AMIT GUPTA

Reference: https://www.chess.com/news/view/junior-speed-chess-championship-nihal-checa