Padmini Rout
Padmini Rout (born 1994) is a chess prodigy from Orissa, India. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She was winner of World Under-14 girl’s championship, 2008.She also has won five Asian and four national titles.Padmini Rout started playing chess at the age of nine (2003) because of her father’s passion for the game. No wonder many parents in Orissa want their offspring take to chess and numerous children dream of becoming the next Padmini.
No wonder Padmini is seen as another Konneru Humpy of India, Maia Chiburdanidze of Georgia and Judith Polgar of Hungary in the making. No wonder the media is projecting her as a star like Dilip Tirkey, Debasis Mohanty, Shiv Sundar Das, Anuradha Biswal and Sradhanjali Samantaray. And no wonder the All India Chess Federation Ex. secretary D V Sundar describes her as “the darling of the game.”She was honoured with the Ekalavya Award by Orissa Government in 2009.
FULL NAME: Padmini Rout (Also known as Sanu)
BORN: January 5, 1994
SEX: Female
FAMILY MEMBERS: Dr Ashok Kumar Rout (Father), Sasmita Dhall (Mother), Emlee Rout (Elder sister).
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: Plus Two second year commerce student of DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar.
PRESENT ADDRESS: Plot No GA-400, Sailashree Vihar (Backside of DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
PERMANENT ADDRESS: At/Po- Barambagarh, District- Cuttack, Odisha-754031
TELEPHONE: 09437184367 (Mob).
E-MAIL ID: pdmnrout@yahoo.co.in / routak@yahoo.com
TITLE: Woman Grandmaster (WGM)
FIDE RATING: 2336 by February, 2011
FIDE ID NO: 5029295
IDOL: Mikhile Tal and Viswanathan Anand
HOBBIES: Reading story book and painting
AWARDS/HONOURS:
Received the Biju Patnaik State Sports Award as the Outstanding Sportsperson of the Year 2007 and cheque of Rs 1 lakh at Bhubaneswar on March 5, 2011.
Received the 16th Ekalabya Award along with a cheque of Rs l lakh as the outstanding sportsperson of the year 2008 from IMPaCT at Bhubaneswar on August 30, 2009.
COACHING:
She was coached for two years by Satya Ranjan Pattnaik and occasionally by IMs Neeraj Kumar Mishra and Sekhar Chandra Sahu.
Received coaching from Ukraine GM Georgy Timoschenko twice in 2008 and 2009.
Participated in the Grand Master coaching camp, conducted by AICF at Calicut from Feb 6 to March 5, 2004.
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:
STATE:
YEAR 2003:
Won the title in the State under-9 at Nayagarh (August 27-29).
Won the title in the State under-11 chess championship at Cuttack (Dec 6-7).
YEAR 2004:
Won the title in the State under-13 championship at Puri (Nov 13-15).
Won the title in the State under-17 championship at Rourkela (Sept 5-8).
YEAR 2005:
Won the title in the 15th State Junior (under-19) Girls’ Chess Championship at Bhubaneswar (March 18-19).
Won the U-12 Girls’ title in the 45th Orissa State Chess Championship at Rourkela (June 4-9).
Won the title in the State Women’s Chess Championship at Puri (June).
Won the title in the State U-11 Boys & Girls Chess Championship at Puri (August 13-14).
Won the title in the State U-19 Open Boys & Girls Chess Championship at Bhubaneswar (October 23-24).
YEAR 2006:
Won the title in the State U-13 Girls` Chess Championship at Puri (June 5-7).
Won the State Sub-junior(U-15) Open championship at Puri (June 7-9).
Won the State U-17 Girls` title at Bhubaneswar (July 16-17).
Won the State U-19 Girls` title at Bhubaneswar (July 30-31).
YEAR 2007:
Secured first position in State Women ‘B’ Chess Championship at Bhubaneswar (May 8-9).
YEAR 2009:
Finished runner-up in the 1st State Blitz Chess Championship at Bhubaneswar on May 24.
NATIONAL:
YEAR 2005:
Won the title in the XIX National U-11 Boys & Girls Chess Championship at Nagpur, Maharashtra (Sept 24-30).
YEAR 2006:
Won the National u-13 girls` title at Kolkata on January 12.
Won the National u-13 girls` title at Bhiwani, Haryana in December.
YEAR 2007:
Finished runner-up in Women’s National ‘B’ Chess Championship at Hyderabad (May 21-28).
YEAR 2008:
Achieved a hat-trick by winning the National u-13 girls` title for the third time in a row at Andheri Sports Complex in Mumbai on January 18.
Runner-up in under-20 girls’ section of the Junior National Chess Championship at Tedapalligudem in Andhra Pradesh (Nov 3-11).
YEAR 2009:
Became the first Orissa girl to qualify for National `A` by finishing ninth in the National `B` Championship at Kolkata on August 24.
Finished runner-up in the 24th National Junior (u-19) Girls Chess Championship at Chennai on Sept 28.
YEAR 2010:
Won the title in the 25th Junior (Under-19) Girls National Chess Championship at Puri on October 9.
YEAR 2011:
Finished fourth in the 37th Premier National Women Chess Championship at Bhubaneswar in January, 2011.
INTERNATIONAL:
YEAR 2005:
Won the Asian Youth (under-12) girls` title at New Delhi in December.
YEAR 2006:
Retained the Asian Youth (under-12) girls` title at Teheran, Iran in June.
Gold Medal in Commonwealth Chess Championship at Mumbai (Nov 19-29).
YEAR 2007:
Finished third in Asian U-16 Chess Championship at Tashkent, Uzbekistan (June 27 to July 8).
Certificate of Title Result, 2nd WIM NORM in 12th Open International Tournament at Balaguer, Spain Chess (July 16-25).
Won gold medal in Under-14 Girls Parsvnath Commonwealth Chess Championship at New Delhi (December 2 to 10).
Finished runner-up in Asian Junior Girls’ Chess Championship at Mumbai December 13 to 21, 2007).
Became the youngest and second Woman International Master of Orissa by obtaining her third and final norm in the World Junior (under-20) Girls` Championship at Yerevan in Armenia in October 2007. She, however, finished 28th in the final standings.
YEAR 2008:
Won gold medal in Asian Youth (U-14 Girls) Chess Championship at Teheran, Iran (July 15 to 22).
Won silver medal in under-14 girls’ section of the Nagpur Mayor’s Cup Commonwealth Chess Championship at Nagpur (Sept 28 to Oct 6).
Won gold medal in World Youth (U-14 Girls) Chess Championship at Vungtau, Vietnam (October 18 to 30).
YEAR 2009:
Won the gold medal in the girls` category of the Asian Junior (u-20) Championship at Colombo, Sri Lanka on July 7, 2009.
Finished eighth in the World Junior Girls Chess Championship at Puerto Madryn in Argentina on Nov 3, 2009.
YEAR 2010:
Won the girls’ bronze medal in the World Junior (u-20) Chess Championship, held at Chotowa-Czarna, Poland from August 3 to 16.
Won the bronze medal in the girls category of the Asian Junior Chess Championship at Chennai on June 23.
Secured the WGM norm and the title in the 2nd SCS Open GM Tournament at Bhubaneswar on May 29, 2010.
Won a gold medal in u-16 girls category of the Parsvanath Commonwealth Chess Championship at New Delhi on May 18, 2010.
YEAR 2012:
Helped Indian women team win the bronze medal in the Asian Nations Chess Championship at Ja Huang in China on May 26.
Secured her third and final IM norm at the Philadelphia International Tournament in the USA on July 4, 2012.
Won a gold medal in under-18 girls category of the Commonwealth Chess Championships at Chennai on Dec 1, 2012.
