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Chess · India

Malika Handa

Malika Handa (born 20 March 1995) is a deaf Indian professional chess player and the first Indian woman to win a gold medal in the International Deaf Chess Championship. She has won two gold medals in the World Deaf Open Chess Championship and Asian Women Deaf Championship, as well as four silver medals in the World Deaf Blitz Chess Championship in 2018 and Asian Disabled Chess Championship in 2017. She has won the National Chess Championship of the Deaf eight times.

Profile details

Born
1995
Country
India
Sport
Chess
Discipline
Mind
Category
Women
Status
Active

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Malika Handa (born 20 March 1995) is a deaf Indian professional chess player and the first Indian woman to win a gold medal in the International Deaf Chess Championship. She has won two gold medals in the World Deaf Open Chess Championship and Asian Women Deaf Championship, as well as four silver medals in the World Deaf Blitz Chess Championship in 2018 and Asian Disabled Chess Championship in 2017. She has won the National Chess Championship of the Deaf eight times.

Biography adapted from Malika Handa on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Snapshot taken — where the text describes a role or a club in the present tense, read it as of that date.

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