Odia Girl Candidate Master (CM) and national instructor title holder Aparajita Gochhikar has been selected as coach of the Indian chess team to represent in Asian Youth Chess Championship 2017 (U-8, U-10, U-12, U-14, U-16 & U-18) to be held at Tashkent, Uzbekistan from March 31 to April 10.
Aparajita is the youngest one in India till date, selected as National coach to represent the country in International arena.
As a coach, she has been awarded "National Instructor (NI)" by FIDE Trainers' Commission, World Chess Federation on September 2016. Also she was awarded with Candidate Master (CM) title by World Chess Federation.
Two coaches from both men and women category have selected by SAI to go along with the team, where Aparajita is going along with the women team.
As many as 33 players are participating in the event, out of which 6 boys, 9 girls & 2 coaches are selected by SAI.