Aditi Soondarsingh (born 1988) is a women's
chess
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player from
Barataria,
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, small ...
. Soondarsingh is the National Women's Chess Champion, having won the Women's half of
Trinidad and Tobago Chess Championship
The Trinidad and Tobago Chess Championships are the annual individual National Chess championships of Trinidad and Tobago. Although chess was being played in Trinidad and Tobago from 1922 or earlier, the first men's tournament took place in 1937.
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eight times.
She holds the
FIDE title
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of
Woman Candidate Master
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...
and has represented Trinidad and Tobago as the Board 1 player at a number of World Chess Olympiads. In 2012, Soondarsinngh became the first women's chess player from Trinidad and Tobago and the second English caribbean speaking women's player to defeat a Women's International Master at a major team tournament.
Soondarsingh has represented Trinidad and Tobago at the World Youth Championship in France.
She has also played in tournaments in El Salvador, Barbados,
Venezuela, and in India for the Commonwealth Games.
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Aditi Soondarsinghat Chess-db.com
1988 births
Living people
Trinidad and Tobago chess players
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