The 18-year-old Indian drew with top seeded Grandmaster Ferenc Berkes of Hungary in the final round to emerge champion.
Viswanathan Anand and Koneru Humpy catapulted Indian chess to new heights while Parimarjan Negi also made his presence felt in the year gone by.
Indian eves cruised to an emphatic 2-1 victory over eighth seeds France in the eighth round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
K Sasikiran, Koneru Humpy and P Harikrishna beat Iran 2.5-0.5 in the seventh round to maintain a huge lead over their nearest rivals in the mixed team's classical swiss event.
India had 2.5 points lead over Qatar at the end of the fifth round, but now they increased the lead to 4.5 points.
The US team fought back brilliantly after being trounced in Round 1 by India to win the second and the Blitz tie-break 4.5-1.5, emerging victorious in an exciting semi-final in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad on Tuesday.
The Asian Games gold medallist has now set her eyes on winning the world championship, which she said, will be her biggest challenge.
The 19-year-old Indian Grandmaster earned India its first gold at the Asian Games, winning the women's rapid tournament.
It was at the shooting ranges that India opened its account in the medal tally, winning a bronze in the team events of the men's and women's 10m Air Rifle competition.
Grandmasters K Sasikiran and Koneru Humpy gave India a resounding start on the first day of the 15th Asian Games.
The Indian GM trails the Russian by a point in the eight-round Hotel Ilapuram Grandmaster chess tournament.
The Indian GM beat Maxim Sorokin in the first round of the eight-match Ilapuram Grandmasters Chess tourney.
The Indian ace beat Tatiana Kosintseva in the third round tie-breaker to set up a meeting with World Cup champion Xu Yuhua in the World women's chess championship.\n\n
But fancied players Alexandra Kosteniuk and Alisa Galliamova were knocked out on a disastrous day for seasoned campaigners at the World Women's Chess Championship.\n\n
The national champion was beaten by Somya Ranjan Mishra in the second round of the Parsvnath International Chess tournament.\n\n
India wasted a winning start as they drew with Vietnam in the second round of the Women's Chess Olympiad
Diwakar Prasad Singh beat her in the 13th round of the 43rd National 'A' chess championship.
Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury beat the chess prodigy in the ninth round of the 41st National 'A' Chess Championship.
Humpy created a new national record by winning 11 consecutive rounds in the National women's `A' chess championship.
Humpy cruised to an easy victory over Sabure in the first round of World women's chess championship.
IDE, for the very first time has instituted the torch relay, which is part of the Olympic tradition but was never done in the Chess Olympiad.
Pendyala Harikrishna and R B Ramesh played a quick draw to remain in joint lead in the Parsvnath international chess tournament.
Harikrishna, Tigran Petrosian and Zhao Jun jointly lead the table with six points each after the seventh round in the World Junior Chess Championship.
Indian eves came up with yet another emphatic performance in the 10th round of the women's section of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Indian men registered a massive 3.5-0.5 win over Costa Rica, while the Indian women beat Cuba 2.5-0.5 in the second round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Li Shilong and Zhang Zhong lead the field after six rounds in the Asian Chess Championship.
The International Master drew with Grandmaster Hua Ni of China to take his tally to 3.5 points in the fifth Asian Chess championship.
Koneru Humpy crashed through the defence of Xu Yuhua to win the first game of the quarter-finals in the Women's World Chess championship 2004.
The World Cup champion drew with Dutch GM Loek Van Wely to share the top place with Evgeny Bareev, Anatoly Karpov and Judit Polgar after the third round in the 65th Corus chess tournament.
The Indian GM was the only player to go undefeated in the event that featured the cream of women's chess.
The top seeded Indian GM easily beat Ekaterina Ubiennykh of Russia in the 11th round and joined Zhao Xue of China and Nadezhda Kosintseva at the top in the World juniors girls' chess championship.
The defending champion scored an easy victory over Tian Tian of China in the fourth round of the tournament.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy went down to Harish Sharma in the opening round of the second Parsvnath Chess championship.
Harikrishna, Chanda and Ganguly share lead before the last round in the National 'A' chess championship.
GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly continues to lead the field after the 17th round in the National 'A' chess championship.
The Asian women's champion made sure of the title after the penultimate round in the tournament.
The top seed needs just a victory tomorrow against Kruttika Nadig of Maharashtra to clinch the Nat. A women's chess title.\n\n
The Asian champion has 13.5 points after 14 rounds, 1.5 points more than her nearest rival S Vijayalakshmi, in the National women's `A' chess championship.
The Asian women's champion scored her eighth victory from as many rounds in the Nat. women's `A' chess championship.
The top seed has five points from as many rounds in the National Women's 'A' Chess Championship.
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