April 24, 2021 03:05 am | Updated 03:05 am IST - CHENNAI
B. Savitha Shri has completed her third and final norm in the Belgrade Spring Festival chess tournament in Serbia to become an Woman International Master.
The 14-year-old achieved the first WIM norm in 2019 at the Grenke Open (Germany) and the second in the Mix-200 event last week in Serbia.
GM R.B. Ramesh, who has been training Savitha for nearly four years, said she is a natural. “Savitha is in need of financial support,”he added.
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