Mr Sandeep Chitkara
Sandeep Chitkara is a FIDE Instructor, FIDE Arbiter, Arena Grandmaster, Ex National University Champion & founder of Genius Chess Academy. He had a peak International (FIDE) rating of 2160 with 30 years playing and training experience at State & National level.
He is MA Political Science and very sincere and hardworking teacher for intermediate and advanced players. He is favourite among his students for his coaching methods and techniques. Sandeep has more than 25 years of experience as a chess coach in reputed schools of Delhi. He has organised more than 150 tournaments for Schools, Colleges, Academies and State level.
Under his tutelage, more than 3000 students have been trained.
GM Vaibhav Suri, IM Rishi Sardana, FM Harshal Shahi, IM/WGM Vantika Agrawal were few of his students. He was also associated with World Youngest Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi for some time. He has been associated with many top players who are playing at National level and also representing the country at International level.
Experience
Achievements as a Coach
Coached rated player of Delhi Anishka Vikram, who won Silver Medal at Commonwealth Under 8 Championship and played well in World Under 8 Girls Championship
Coached Under 18 World Championship Bronze Medallist, Ex Asian School Champion and Commonwealth Champion GM Vaibhav Suri
Associated with World Youngest Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi
Coached International Tournaments Winner IM Rishi Sardana
Coached India’s Youngest Ever Rated Player, Asian Champion, Commonwealth Silver Medalist and Ex National U-9 Champion FM Harshal Shahi
Coached National Women Champion, Asian Champion and member of Indian Team IM/WGM Vantika Agrawal
DPS, NOIDA and Amity International School, Noida won and secured good positions in many tournaments
Modern School, Humayun Road school team won twice Delhi State Inter School Under 10 Championship and also won many big tournaments and considered as the toughest junior team in Northern India
DPS, Mathura Road won many tournaments at State and National level
K R Mangalam World School, GK II won North Zone CBSE Under 14 Open and secured 3rd position in Under 19 Open Chess Tournament
Produced many rated players from C R Park Academy like Nirvaan Bharany, Arhaan Jain, Vinayak Seth, Meharjot Singh, Agamjot Singh, Saanya Mahesh, Shruti Kakar, Saurav Agarwal and many more
Mahima Gupta won Delhi State Under 11 Girls Championship
Saideep Ganesh won Delhi State Under 11 Open Championship
Ananya Bagla won Delhi State U-12 Rapid Girls Championship
Arush Jain came first in Delhi State U-9 Championship
Aansh Gupta was runner-up in Delhi State U-7 Championship
K.R. Mangalam World School, G.K. II came 2nd in Delhi State Inter-School U-19 Chess Championship
Uday Dhawan got 2nd position in Delhi State Under 7 Chess Championship
Priyam Chaliha won Gold In Under 12 Rapid Delhi State & Bronze in Delhi State Under 13 Girls Rapid Championship
Mahima Gupta won the Delhi State Under 11 Girls Chess Championship 2006.
Coached many colleges like SRCC, LSR, Zakir Husain, Dayal Singh, Hansraj which won and secured good positions in many tournaments
Coach of Delhi University from 2000-2004
Achievements as a Player
Represented Delhi in National Rapid-Blitz, National Team Championship & National 'B' Tournaments
Got first rating of 2134 in year 2002 (peak 2160)
Winner of All India Universities Chess Championship
Won Inter-College Chess Championship four times
Played and secured good positions in many international tournaments
Represented Delhi University four times in the All India Universities Chess Championship and secured 1st, 6th, 12th and 20th positions respectively
Won and secured good positions in many tournaments at state & national level
Won many Open tournaments and some at Botwinnik Chess Academy
Won more than 50 tournaments in last 10 years, and secured top 3 positions in another 100 tournaments