Vantika Agrawal

Some Lesser Known Facts About Vantika Agrawal

• As a child, Vantika Agrawal played many sports such as cricket, tennis, karate, skating, and badminton, but she liked chess the most.

• She started playing chess when she was seven and a half years old. She enjoyed playing chess at school and with her brother, who taught her the basic chess moves.

• In 2011, Vantika Agrawal participated in the U-9 girls Asian Schools Chess Championship.

  

• During her holidays, she plays chess for eight hours a day.

• Vantika Agrawal is a fitness enthusiast and does yoga regularly in the morning. She plays badminton in the evening every day.

  

• In 2017, she scored Woman International Master (WIM) norms at the IIFL Mumbai Open and Sharjah Open.

• In the same year, Vantika Agrawal participated in the Dubai Open and was issued a norm, but due to some technical incorrectness, it was not granted to her.

• In 2019, she won a silver medal at the Western Asian Junior Chess Championship.

  

• She likes reading the books by Mark Dvoretsky.

• In 2020, Vantika Agrawal represented the Indian national team and won the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad.

• Her favourite opponent is Alina Bivol, a Russian professional chess player.

• In 2021, she won the FIDE Binance Business Schools Super Cup.

• In November 2021, Vantika Agrawal ranked 14th in the FIDE Women’s Grand Swiss Tournament in Riga.

• In July 2023, she became India’s third-ranked women’s player with an ELO rating of 2428.

• Vantika Agrawal is inspired by chess players Anatoly Karpov, Magnus Carlsen, and Viswanathan Anand.

  

• She likes watching live games in her free time.

• Vantika Agrawal likes to keep herself updated on the recent events in the chess world.

• She likes watching films, and her favourite film is Dangal.