City girl Mallika bags silver at int’l chess meet

Our Correspondent

Jalandhar, September 24

Bringing laurels to the city, Mallika Handa, who is hearing impaired and a resident of Green Avenue, bagged a silver medal at the 1st Asian Disabled Open Chess Championship held from September 14 to 22 at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. It was her fifth title in a row at the international level.

“After playing seven tough games, Mallika secured a silver medal and missed on gold with half points against a player from Turkestan, who was four times elder than Mallika”, said Mallika’s mother.

She said Mallika faced a tough competition from all opponents in seven games she played and all of them were very much experienced. She said Mallika participated in the open category.

As Mallika was the first Indian girl who won a gold medal in the International Deaf and Dumb Chess Championship that was held in Mongolia in 2015, she holds a tremendous record at the international and national level.

She won gold at the 19th National Championship for the Deaf that was held at Tirur in Kerala in March this year. Mallika had played five chess international championship in which she won three gold and two silver medals.