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  FIDE World Cup 2025 Winners Under 8, 10 & 12 – India Shines Bright! 🎙️ Guruji's Mic On – Breaking Pawns and Punchlines! 🎤😂 Hello friends! 😄 Guruji here, reporting from the land of kings and queens... not Rajasthan, but Batumi , Georgia – where tiny champions just checkmated boredom at the FIDE World Cup 2025 (Under 8, 10, and 12) ! ♟️ After 9 days of intense brain battles, mind-blowing moves, and countless "Check, please!", the champions have finally been crowned. 💥🎉 👶 Under-8 Category – Baby Brains, Big Games! 🍼 🏆 Open U-8 Winners: 🥇 Omer Taha Dede (Türkiye) – "Not a kid, a Bullet Train!" 🚄 🥈 Mikhail Ev. Markov (FIDE) – "Russia’s little Einstein!" 🧠 🥉 Adinur Adilbek (Kazakhstan) – "Kazakhstan’s Killer Knight!" 🐎 👑 Girls U-8 Winners: 🥇 Alisha Bissaliyeva (Kazakhstan) – "Queen on the board and off it!" 👸 🥈 Varvara Volkova (FIDE) – "The Silent Sniper!" 🎯 🥉 Tharshan ...

  Top 10 Female Chess Players From Tamil Nadu Comprising the highest-rated Woman Grandmasters and Woman International Masters: 🎖️ Top 10 Female Players from Tamil Nadu Vaishali Rameshbabu (IM, WGM) – The first female Grandmaster from Tamil Nadu , crossed the 2500 Elo barrier in 2023; currently rated around 2476 as of January 22, P.   V.   Nandhidhaa (WGM) – Achieved WGM in 2019, peak rating ~2380 (Feb 2022), reigning National Women’s Champion in 2024. Rakshitta Ravi (WGM) – Earned her WGM title in 2023; peak rating ~2365 as of February 2025 V.   Varshini (WGM) – Became WGM in 2019, peak rating ~2271 (Dec 2015) Aarthie Ramaswamy (WGM) – One of TN’s earlier WGMs since 2003; peak rating ~2348 (Apr 2003) Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman (WGM, IM norms) – Tamil Nadu’s first female IM and one of the earliest WGMs . Meenakshi Shankar (WGM) – Holds WGM title, listed among TN’s top women GMs . Srija ...