Thursday, April 03, 2008

Thej Kumar becomes an IM

State Champion and National 'A' Player M.S.Thej Kumar
completed his third and final IM norm to become the
third International Master from Karnataka (after Ravi
Hegde and D.V.Prasad) when he drew against Swapnil
Dhopade in the 9th round of the 3rd Kolkata Grandmaster
tournament.

Born on the 1st of January, 1981, Thej Kumar hails
from Mysore and was recently employed with Southern
Railways on Sports Quota. He gained 5 precious ELO
rating points in Kolkata to take his provisional rating
to 2419.

3 Comments:

Blogger Vishwas Krishna said...

My hearty congratulations to Thej.
The hard work he had put in all these years has finally paid dividends. If I'm not mistaken, once he completes all his GM norms- hopefully in the near future- he will be the first GM from Karnataka. All the best for him.

8:29 PM  
Blogger Pavan said...

Thej has now 3 GM norms to his name and has a FIDE rating of 2441 and once he completes 2500 he would become Karnataka's first GM!! I'm sure he would do it very soon.

6:31 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

iam proud to say...he is my friend..i still remember that words i told him..dont worry buddy u will reach ur goal soon...well done thej..keep going..all da best

1:04 AM  

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