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Vijayawada lad Vijaya Sai Krishna Gottipati has been consistently proving his talent
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IF SMALL steps lead to great, Vijaya Sai Krishna Gottipati seems headed in the right direction.
The talented youngster made quite a splash at the Asian youth chess championship at Singapore last month. In what was perhaps his first international engagement, the Vijayawada lad came out with flying colours, helping himself to the individual bronze. Thereafter, he wrestled with the best brains of the continent for the third place in the team competitions as well.
Such achievement by the time he had turned eight made it all the more commendable. Just to prove that was no flash in the pan, Sai finished fourth in the National under nine chess championships at Ahmedabad. In the FIDE list published earlier this month, his rating had reached 2019. The fourth standard student's progress has been steady. In November 2003, he emerged seventh in the National under seven championships at Chennai. At the Adayar Times Millennium FIDE rated open in the same city, he topped the under 12 years category. A year before, he ensured his team clinched the title in the CBSE inter-schools competition in his native Vijayawada.
He had a string of firsts to his name at the State level, claiming the Andhra under championships at Vuyyuru, the AP State under 10 rapid championship at Guntur and the A.P. Youth Festival conducted by the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation. Ample indication of his growth from the grassroot level was evident from his victories in the Krishna District under 11, under 13 and under seven years competitions.
As if to prove he was no tiger only at home, Sai stood second in the FIDE rated open tournament at Salem, Tamil Nadu, in the boys under 10 years category. In June 2003, his squad came third in the National team chess championships at Vijayawada. His consistency comes to the fore in every national tournament, when he garners close to half-a-dozen points from nearly twice as many rounds, when pitted against much superior competition.
His father, Gottipati Prasad, a professor at the Siddhartha College of Engineering, keenly follows the fortunes of his son. Ready to extend every possible help, he accompanies his son to most competitions.
Like any proud parent, he takes delight in every achievement of his son, encouraging the little fellow to carve a niche for himself on the chess firmament.
A. JOSEPH ANTONY
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