India’s Shivika Rohilla overcame viral fever to complete 2d on the Western Asia Formative years Chess Championship tournament in Kyrgyzstan.
The 15-year-old from New Delhi completed simply at the back of compatriot Tejaswini Ganesan within the classical event held on the picturesque village of Korumdu close to the Issyk-Kul Lake. Shivika additionally completed 2d within the blitz class.
Now not simply viral fever, the younger Shivika additionally confronted every other problem to find vegetarian meals within the Kyrgyz village. However regardless of the ones hindrances, she controlled to seal a podium end.
“As a result of we now have been travelling so much, she had a nasty viral fever. She’s been coughing all through the event,” Shivika’s mom Nidhi Bhasin mentioned from Kyrgyzstan.
For Shivika, who lately holds the identify of a Girl FIDE Grasp, enjoying chess has at all times been a gentle balancing act between game and research. {The teenager}, who first took up chess when she was once simply seven as a interest, not too long ago scored 97 p.c within the board checks.
“She couldn’t play chess for a couple of months ahead of her board checks as a result of she was once focussing on research. Then after her forums, we’ve been travelling so much out of doors India enjoying tournaments. She travels for seven to 8 months in a 12 months. I don’t even take into accout after we ultimate took a vacation. Both she’s getting ready for checks or she’s enjoying chess,” Nidhi mentioned with an unmistakable sense of satisfaction in her voice.
“She desires to turn out to be an aeronautical engineer. She plans to check that during London. London as a result of from there she too can shuttle simply in Europe to play in chess tournaments to steadiness each worlds,” Nidhi added.