CHANDIGARH: Pocketing her final Woman International Master (WIM) norm in Budapest last week, 20-year-old Tarini Goyal of Chandigarh earned herself the WIM Title in Chess. Tarini had already crossed the ELO rating of 2200 in the year 2016 and earned two WIM norms while playing in Greece (2018) and Abu Dhabi (2019). With this latest norm, Tarini completed the mandatory requirement of three WIM norms and touched her peak rating of 2226 to bag the Title.
On her way to achieving the final norm, Tarini played three back-to-back tournaments in the past month, during which she defeated International Masters (IMs) Sturt Raven of USA and Egor Bogdanov of Ukraine, while holding to a draw Grand Masters (GMs) Aczel Gergely (Hungary), and Ilincic Zlatko (Serbia), and International Masters Nhat Minh (Hungary), Srinath Rao (India), and Ajay Krishna (India).
Tarini has set herself a target of achieving the WGM Title, but insists that she would let it come at its own pace rather than getting anxious about it.