She started at seven. At eighteen she holds a FIDE title, beats international masters, and sits inside India's top 75 women. She is only getting started.
In a single season she went to Europe as an unrated outsider, beat national champions and international masters, and came home with two FIDE titles.
Teplice Open, Czech Republic. The WCM title secured against a field of higher-rated international opposition.
Beat an eight-time Danish national champion and a veteran Scottish IM. Won her final round against a 2100-rated opponent.
An invitational section open only to top-rated players.
Drew GM Petr Velicka and GM Mikulas Manik, and beat GM Handzar Odeev, in a field led by a 2628-rated grandmaster.
World Under-18 Girls Championship, Durrës, Albania. Finished 25th in the world, with wins over players from five nations.
Then
NowNobody photographs the hours that made the difference. Only the results.
Her brother introduced her to the game when she was seven. She won her first tournament, the Under-7 State Championship, and then went on to take a state title in almost every age category that followed: under 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, and the women's championship.
Chess gives a child from Indore nothing for free. Every rating point had to be taken across the board from someone fighting just as hard to keep it. She kept taking them, and while still a teenager she earned a title most players chase their whole lives and never hold: Woman FIDE Master.
Chess has become more than a game for me: it's my passion, my identity. Cera Dagariya, to the Times of India
Titles, medals and placings from the state board in Indore to the world stage.
Selected to represent a Turkish club in a premier national team competition.
Top woman in an international open in Group A.
Drew GM Velicka and GM Manik; beat GM Odeev.
World U-18 Girls Championship, Durrës, Albania. Finished 25th in the world.
Earned at the Teplice Open, Czech Republic.
Wins over a Danish national champion and a Scottish international master.
Invitational section restricted to top-rated players.
Four medals across formats.
Bronze in Standard, bronze in Rapid, silver in Blitz.
Sixth board for the Indian team.
Carried the torch representing Madhya Pradesh.
7th in classical, 10th in blitz.
Also placed 5th overall in the age category.
Representing India on the world schools stage.
National federation rankings, following her 2025 European campaign.
National schools champion in her age category.
Top-five finish at national level.
First place in the inter-public-school selection.
Her first national-level placing.
National-level age-group tournament.
Competing against India's strongest from an early age.
State champion in every age category she has entered.
State women's title, competing against adults.
First place at the state youth championship.
State title taken without dropping a game.
One-day rapid tournament winner.
Awarded by her school for five consecutive years.
Her titles have been covered in the national and regional press. Click any clipping to read it.
Club chess, Turkiye
Over the board
Best Woman, 1st · Lankaran Open, Azerbaijan
Asian Youth Championship · UAE 2023
Over the board
Silver · Asian Youth Championship
Winner · Khelo MP Youth Games
Best Woman · Kielce Open, Poland
Champion · IPSC All-India
International Championship
Team India · World Youth, Albania
The Daly College, Indore
Podium · Kielce 2025
Deep in the gameInside India's top 75 women, with wins over international masters and national champions already behind her.
Next: the Woman International Master title, and the norms that come with playing stronger fields more often. That takes tournaments. Tournaments take backing.
Selected to represent a Turkish club on the Women's Board of the Turkish Chess League, one of Turkiye's premier national team competitions.
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