Shibam Nath is a student of YUVA CHESS ACADEMY, who has won the 5th prize in the YCA special prize with 5.5 points out of 10 rounds.

He told us that when he was in class 6, a student in his class named Harshavardhan Roy having a FIDE rating of 1255 and a member of chess.com , first introduced the game to him. after he played his first match against Harsh, he said that he played very well and he advised him to focus one corner of his dream towards chess. Then he joined Yuva Chess Academy, kharagpur and started his journey towards chess.

His lifelong wish is that after completing his high school studies, we want to totally focus on chess and play as many tournaments as he can. Later, he want to become rated and become a champion of any tournament.

He is also interested in quizzes and debates. In his first quiz, held by kharagpur divisional railway hospital on their 100th anniversary, he got the 3rd place. In debate, he got the 2nd place which was held by IIT, kharagpur. Recently, he became the champion of the quiz competition which was held by Alapan Club, Bulbul choti, Kharagpur on 27th January, 2019.

He has played the Jamshedji Tata memorial FIDE rated chess championship and scored 7.5/10, and became the 12th player of the championship and got a rating of 1445 at once.

He played another FIDE rated tournament in Siliguri and his rating further increased to 1789.

Recently, he played another tournament in Delhi after his final examination and his rating further increased to 2004, which is his year of birth.

"Now, from class 10 to class 12, I will not play any tournament and would totally focus on study. but after graduation, I will again start to play FIDE tournaments." he said.

He has been our staff account for about four months as our customer care accountant. He is our supporting member since 5th february, 2019 to 5th may, 2019.

We wish that his journey towards chess would be successful and we will help him whenever he needs it, whether personally or publicly.

His chess mantra is " chess brahma, chess vishnu, chess deva maheshwara. chess sakshat parambrahma tasmaishree chess ave namo namah!"

"Oooooommmm, namo bhagawate chess devayae namo."

"Jai Hind, Jai Chess, Jai bharat!!!"

shibamnath