Nitish gains 41 ELO rating points in Round Robin Chess tournament in
Hungary.
Geno brand ambassador Nitish Belurkar, who had recently won silver medal
in Commonwealth Games, Johannesburg, South Africa put up a fine
performance at Caissa Round Robin International Chess tournament, as he
notched up a 41 point Elo rating gain, a huge gain in an International
tournament. Nitish defeated higher rated players, Kovacs Zoltan, rating
2075, Marosi Csaba, rating 1972 and Zsiros Laszlo, rating 1904 to earn
the rating gain. Nitish is given special coaching in Hungary by
Grandmaster Gyuno Sax. GM Sax expressed satisfaction at Nitish’s games
and complimented his attacking style. He felt that such a style will
stand Nitish in good stead in the future. Dronacharya awardee
Raghunandan Gokhale who is accompanying Nitish in Hungary also
complimented Nitish on his performance.
Ten year old Nitish is a standard five student of Sharada Mandir School.
He was also recently awarded the Candidate Master title by FIDE, the
World Chess Federation. He will next play in the Prague Open and the
Meiranbad Open tournaments in Czech Republic in the next two weeks.
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