Woman Grandmaster (WGM) Soumya Swaminathan, an employee with PSPB, is a former National Champion (2011), World Junior Championship title winner (2009), Commonwealth Women’s Champion (2012) and has finished second in the 2016 Moscow Open. The 28-year-old WGM is one of the top women chess players’ in the country, and the top-seed in the ongoing 44th National Women’s Challengers Chess Championships-2017 being held at Mysore Sports Club in city. SOM Sports Correspondent caught up with Soumya on the side-lines of the Tourney yesterday. Excerpts:
By C.K. Muralidharan
