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Tania Sachdev
So one thing this World Championship has established is that I need more Tania Sachdev and Daniel "Danya" Naridistky in my life. MVPs from the chess.com commentary team if you ask me. Honestly, both have been fantastic at focusing and translating Anish and Fabiano for us amateurs, and providing some crazy smart analysis themselves.
Here's a bit more about them...
Tania Sachdev is a Woman Grandmaster (WGM) with a peak rating of 2440. She's two-time Indian women's chess champion (2006 and 2007), one-time Asian women's chess champion in 2007 and three-time and current Commonwealth Women's Chess Champion in 2016, 2018 and 2019.
Daniel Naroditsky is a Grandmaster (peak rating 2647) who, last I checked, was top rapid and blitz player on both Lichess and Chess.com. He's crazy quick at spotting tactics and does really informative speedruns on twitch and YouTube (check out his training videos with Andrea Botez too). I've only just discovered his YouTube and I need to watch more of it asap.
Ok, so Tania Sachdev is my new chess crush and I've been going over some of her games. Check out this near perfect game as black against Richard Rapport with a wild non-castle, long castle structure!
Richard Rapport - Tania Sachdev, Gibraltar Masters (2014), La Caleta GIB, rd 2, Jan-29
Queen Pawn Game: Veresov Attack (D00) · 1/2-1/2
Magnus and Tania beat Fabi and Maurice in two Freestyle Chess Head and Hand matches
November 20, 2024
Magnus and Fabi play on the 21st and 22nd in classical time control Freestyle Chess matches
Tania Sachdev, photo by David Llada