Priyanka Nootki Wiki, Height, Age, Boyfriend, Family, Biography & More

Priyanka Nutki is the 23rd Indian Woman Grand Master (WGM) who has won several national and international chess tournaments.

Wiki/Biography

Priyanka Nootki was born on Saturday, 1 June 2002 (age 20 years; by 2022) in Kanuru, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. His zodiac sign is Gemini. She started playing chess at the age of 7 during summer vacations when she was in second grade. She quickly learned the game and won the district level competition. His parents noticed his natural talent and enrolled him in the Mustabada Chess Educational Academy in Vijayawada. He studied at Delhi Public School in Vijayawada. He started learning under the renowned coach Bobba Veerabhadra Rao aka VR Bobba. He then trained under coach Rama Raju in Hyderabad. In 2018, he started training under senior coach G Murali Krishna at Ponnur in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Later, he trained under coach GM Swayam Mishra and GM Farukh Amontov. For his graduation, he opted for Bachelor of Commerce degree.

Priyanka Nutki (right) training with her coach VR Bobba during her childhood

Priyanka Nutki with her coach GM Swayam Mishra

Physical Appearance

Height (Approx.): 5′ 1″

Weight (Approx.): 50 kg

Hair Color: black

Eye Colour: black

family

parents and siblings

His father’s name is N. Radhakrishna is there and his mother’s name is Durga Devi. He has a sister, Sindhu Nootki.

Priyanka Nutki’s father N. Radhakrishna and mother Durga are goddess

relationships/affairs

is she single.

career

He started playing chess in various district and state level tournaments. She won the National Under-9 Girls Chess Championship in 2011, the National Under-11 Girls Chess Championship in 2013 and the 29th National Under-13 Girls Chess Championship in 2015. Asian Youth Chess Championship for girls in 2012. Later that year, she again emerged as the winner in the Under-10 age group at the World Youth Chess Championship for Girls.

Priyanka Nutki with the trophy after winning the under-10 category at the World Youth Chess Championship 2012

She participated in the World Youth Girls Under-14 Championships in 2016 and the 20th Dubai Open in 2018. She won the Riga Technical University Open Tournament – ​​A in the girls category. In 2019, he crossed the 2300 rating criteria in the International Chess Federation (FIDE) ratings. She scored her first Woman Grand Master norm in Rilton Cup 2018-2019. During the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the tournaments were cancelled. In 2020, she won the Susan Polgar Foundation Girls Invitational Online Championship 2020. He completed his second WGM norm and first International Master (IM) norm in 2021 at the 7th Sunway Sitges International Open. He completed the third and final WGM criteria. MPL 47th National Women’s Chess Championship in 2022. On 2 March 2022, she became the woman Grandmaster. He won the under-20 category of the Commonwealth Chess Championship in 2022. In November 2022, he qualified for the FIDE Knockout World Cup 2023.

Priyanka Nootki (extreme left) after winning the under-20 category at the Commonwealth Chess Championships – 2022

Facts / Trivia

• When she won the Asian Under-12 Girls Rapid Chess Championship in 2014, she was given a laptop by her school.

• She is the 23rd Indian woman Grandmaster.

• He was expelled from the 2022 FIDE World Junior Chess Championship held in Italy after wireless headphones were found in his jacket pocket. He was cleared of any wrongdoing; However, the tournament had to be abandoned midway.

• His favorite chess book is My Great Predecessor by Garry Kasparov.

• He likes to play badminton and table tennis.

• Dr. Rajat Bhargava, Special Chief Secretary, Government of Andhra Pradesh, honored Priyanka on 22 March 2022 after becoming the 23rd Indian Woman Grand Master.
  

  Dr. Rajat Bhargava presenting the award to Priyanka Nattaki (right) after becoming the 23rd Indian Woman Grand Master

• She was mainly focused on her education; However, she started playing chess after her parents insisted that she take up the co-curricular activity during summer vacations.

• She did not take up the game of chess seriously until she won the World Youth Chess Championship for Girls in 2012.