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Vishal Sareen
Vishal Sareen (born in 1973) took up chess at the age of ten in 1983. In 1986 he became the National Sub Junior Champion (Indian Under-15) and represented the country for the first time in 1987 in the World Under-16 chess championship at Innsbruck in Austria. == Contents [hide] 1 Coaching Career- 2 Champions groomed- 3 The following are the major achievements and medals won by Vishal Sareen’s students: 3.1 Tania Sachdev: 3.2 Abhijeet Gupta: 3.3 Parimarjan Negi (Worked till 2007): 3.4 Sahaj Grover: 3.5 Akshayraj Kore: ==

Coaching Career-[edit]
Representing India on a few occasions thereafter and making a few International Master norms, he noticed the need for professional chess trainers in the country at an early age of 25 years and started working in the direction of learning the process which will improve the chess knowledge and skills of young and budding chess players. While working to learn the process of training and guiding some talents in the early years, he took to serious chess training at the onset of the new millennium in 2002. From 2004 onwards, some of the best talents who would bring glory to the nation in the future, started getting trained under his methods and in just a few years’ time he emerged as one of the better trainers that the country has produced.

Champions groomed-[edit]
He tutored Parimarjan Negi when he was not yet an International Master and became a Grandmaster under his training in 2006. Abhijeet Gupta was next to join him and then Sahaj Grover and Tania Sachdev followed suit. More recently, in a span of just one year, he helped Akshayraj Kore become a Grandmaster in February 2013. Negi got his Arjuna Award in 2010 and is a force to reckon with having broken in to top 100 in world rankings recently. Tania Sachdev went on to win a lot of medals for the country making the coach proud in a span of just one year of working together. For her wonderful achievements, she was honoured with the Arjuna Award in 2009. Tania and Abhijeet Won the Individual medal for their performances in the Chess Olympiad at Istanbul in 2012. Abhijeet won the Silver medal while Tania emerged with a Bronze medal winning performance. In the year 2008 at the World Junior championship, he got one of the best gift of his life as a chess teacher when Abhijeet and Parimarjan bagged the Gold and Silver Medal respectively. This was the first instance of such a great Indian result in the world juniors and was unprecedented in history. Abhijeet bagged the bronze medal in the Asian Individual Championship in 2010 and also the Silver medal in Commonwealth Chess Championship in 2011. In 2013, he won the Gold medal in Commonwealth winning it at Port Elizabeth in South Africa. Tania has added another feather to her cap by bagging the Silver medal in Commonwealth Women’s championship 2010. Sahaj Grover became a Grandmaster in 2012 and is a player to watch out for in the future.

== '''The following are the major achievements and medals won by Vishal Sareen’s students: ''' ==

Tania Sachdev


1. Arjuna Award 2009

2. Chess Olympics Istanbul 2012 performance - Bronze Medal

3. Commonwealth Women’s Championship 2010 – Silver Medal

4. Asian Indoor Games 2010 (Blitz team event) – Bronze Medal

5. Asian Indoor Games 2010 (Rapid team event) – Bronze Medal

6. Commonwealth Women’s Championship 2008 – Silver Medal

7. Asian Indoor Games 2008 (team event) – Gold Medal

8. Asian Indoor Games 2008 (team event) – Silver Medal

9. Asian Women’s Championship 2007 – Gold Medal

== Abhijeet Gupta ==

1. Arjuna Award 2013 2. Commonwealth Championship 2013 - Gold Medal

3. Chess Olympics 2012 Istanbul - Silver Medal

4. Asian Team Championship - Team silver and Individual Gold

5. Commonwealth Chess Championship 2010 – Silver Medal

6. Asian Individual Chess Championship 2010 – Bronze Medal

7. World Junior Chess Championship 2008 – Gold Medal

8. Asian team championship in 2007 – Silver Medal

9. Became International Grand Master in the year 2008

10. Winner of many International tournaments

Parimarjan Negi (Worked till 2007)


1. Became Country Youngest International Grandmaster ever in 2006 and also the world’s second youngest ever in the history of the game.

2. Arjuna Award 2010

Sahaj Grover


1. Grandmaster Title awarded in 2012

2. Commonwealth Championship Junior 2013 - Silver Medal

3. Asian Junior 2013 - Silver Medal

4. World Junior Chess Championship 2011 - Bronze Medal

5. Commonwealth Championship Junior 2011 - Gold Medal

6. National Junior Championship 2012 - Gold Medal

7. Gold medallist in Commonwealth Chess Championship in under-16 category in 2010.

Akshayraj Kore


Grandmaster title completed in 2013.