Fifteen-years-old International Chess player of Indore, Nityata Jain, achieved 6th position in Blitz format of Asian Youth Chess Championship in under 16 girls category today at Srilanka. Blitz format of chess is like 20-20 cricket wherein a player gets only 3 minutes time to play a game and, therefore, has no time to think and play and has to play according to his past experience.
With present International Blitz rating of 1465, after losing 1st round, Nityata continuously won next 5 rounds, out of which she defeated two higher rated players too. After 6th round, Nityata was placed at 4th place in the medal race, but she lost too much higher rated chess player Bach Ngoc Thuy Duiong of Vietnam and thus improving her opening 17th rank, finally achieved 6th position. Nityata's Blitz rating is also expected to increase by 19 ELO points.
The main stream Standard Chess games also started from 4.30 pm today, in the first round of which Nityata easily defeated Chaipa Kanyanut of Thailand in just 1 hours 15 minutes. Total 9 rounds will be played in the standard chess format of this championship till 9th April.
Prior to this, championship was formally inaugurated in the presence of Deputy President of Asian Chess Federation Bharat Singh Chauhan. Total 571 players of 23 Asian countries are participating in different age-groups of this championship.