Bhagyashree Thipsay (née Sathe;D.K. Bharadwaj (2003-05-13)

Press Information Bureau, Government of India. born 4 August 1961) is an Indian

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 holding the title of

Woman International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

(WIM). She won five times the Indian Women's Championship (1985, 1986, 1988, 1991 and 1994) and the Asian Women's Championship in 1991. In 1984 she was joint winner with Vasanti Unni of the British Ladies' Championship. She competed in the

Women's World Chess Championship 2000 The Women's World Chess Championship 2000 was a change from previous championship cycle in that, for the first time, it consisted of a 64-player knock-out tournament which took place from November 27 to December 16, 2000 in New Delhi, India. Despi ...

, losing in the first round to

Peng Zhaoqin Peng Zhaoqin (; born 8 May 1968 in Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a Chinese-born Dutch chess player. In October 2004, she was the eleventh woman ever to be awarded the FIDE title of Grandmaster. She won three times the Chinese women's chess champi ...

. She is recipient of

Padma Shri Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...

and

Arjuna award The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The award is named after Arjuna, one ...

. After marriage to the chess Grandmaster

Praveen Thipsay Pravin Mahadeo Thipsay (born 12 August 1959) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster. He is the first Indian to get a chess Grandmaster norm (chess), norm and the first Indian to win the Commonweal ...

she changed her name to Bhagyashree Sathe Thipsay. She works for

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as an officer in

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

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* 1961 births Living people Indian female chess players Indian chess players Recipients of the Arjuna Award Sportswomen from Maharashtra Recipients of the Padma Shri in sports Articles created or expanded during Women's History Month (India) - 2014 Sportspeople from Mumbai Chess Woman International Masters 20th-century Indian women 20th-century Indian people {{India-chess-bio-stub