India’s eighth woman grandmaster and International Master of chess, Tania Sachdev, 27, has produced a chess video primarily to popularize the noted board game among young girls in India. Sachdev concentrates on the middle game. She explains that the interactive video teaches what you should do as you emerge from the opening, and you experience difficulties about how to proceed; how to find the right squares for your pieces, and to develop your plans in a manner in which you can find the right concepts as the game progresses. In the almost five-hour running time of the video, Sachdev demonstrates how to evaluate certain positions on the basis of her own games. She explains her thoughts and recounts how she arrived at successful decisions, and as a result, played some good moves. The video which was produced in Germany in English, covers a broad spectrum of themes in the middle game.
Sachdev won the gold medal for India on Board Three at the Istanbul chess Olympiad in 2012, scoring a total of nine points from 11 games. However, she wants to see more Indian females participating in the game at a professional level. A fan of both Anand and Carlsen, Sachdev wants to break into the world’s top 20 in women’s chess and also to compete for the male grandmaster title. Advising budding Indian chess players, she says: “Nothing can be achieved without hard work. Talent is not the only factor in success. You must also enjoy what you do; only then
