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| Rohini Khadilkar | |
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 Rohini Khadilkar, Luzern 1982 | |
| Country | India |
| Born | 1 April 1963 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Title | Woman International Master (1981) |
| FIDE rating | 2215 [inactive] |
| Peak rating | 2220 (July 1987)[1] |
Rohini Khadilkar (born 1 April 1963 in Mumbai) is a chess player holding the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She has won the Indian women's championship five times and the Asian women's championship twice.[2] She was the first female chess player to receive the Arjuna Award in 1980.
She is the youngest of the three Khadilkar sisters - named Vasanti, Jayashri, and Rohini - all of whom excelled at chess. Their father, Nilkanth Khadilkar (1934-2019), was a famous journalist in Marathi language based near Mumbai, and all three sisters were helping run the newspaper 'Nava Kal' founded by their father at the time of his death. The family's association with literature goes all the way back to Marathi playwright Krishnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar (1872-1948), who was the great-grandfather to the sisters. [3]
- ^ Khadilkar, Rohini FIDE rating history, 1979-2001 at OlimpBase.org
- ^ Menon, Ajay (3 June 2012). "Anand's win fires former chess whiz from Girgaon". Hindustan Times. Mumbai. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
- ^ "Senior journalist Nilkanth Khadilkar dies at 86". 22 November 2019.