Manoj Kumar is a Fijian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player who has won the Fiji National Championship eight times: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. The Fiji Sports Councils Awards named him Fiji national domestic Player of the year twice, in 2007 and 2008.Fiji Chess Federation awards
/ref> Kumar won the first Fiji Invitational Championship in 2003. Kumar represented Fiji in the most Oceania championships: 2001; 2007 Nadi, Fiji; 2009 Gold Coast; and 2011 Rotoura, New Zealand. Kumar also represented Fiji in three

Chess Olympiads The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and ...

.Kumar, Manoj
Chess Olympiad record at olimpbase.org

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