Padmini Rout

{{Infobox chess player

| name = Padmini Rout

| image = Rout Padmini 2009.jpg

| caption = Padmini Rout, Vlissingen 2009

| country = India

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1994|1|5}}

| birth_place = Baramba, Odisha, India

| death_date =

| death_place =

| title = International Master (2015)
Woman Grandmaster (2010)

| rating = [https://ratings.fide.com/profile/5029295/chart 2339] (December 2024)

| peakrating = 2454 (March 2015)

}}

Padmini Rout (born 5 January 1994) is an Indian chess player. She holds the titles of International Master (IM){{Cite web |url=https://chess-db.com/public/pinfo.jsp?id=5029295 |title=Rout Padmini chess games and profile - Chess-DB.com |website=chess-db.com |access-date=2019-11-22}} and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).[https://ratings.fide.com/profile/5029295 Padmini, Rout], ratings.fide.com, access-date 2024-02-28 She has won the National Women's Premier Championship five times, consecutively from 2014 to 2017 and again in 2023,{{Cite web |date=2023-07-11 |title=Padmini Rout becomes five times National Women champion by convincingly clinching the 49th edition - ChessBase India |url=https://www.chessbase.in/news/49th-National-Women-Chess-Championship-2023-Round-11-report |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=www.chessbase.in}} and was the Asian women's champion in 2018.{{Cite web |date=2018-12-18 |title=Padmini Rout is the new Women's Asian Continental Champion! - ChessBase India |url=https://www.chessbase.in/news/Padmini-Rout-is-the-new-Asian-Continental-Champion- |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=www.chessbase.in}}

Rout was honoured with the Biju Patnaik Sports Award for the year 2007 and the Ekalavya Award in 2009.{{Cite web |url=http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/Orissareview/2011/Nov/engpdf/9-17.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=23 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820094900/http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/Orissareview/2011/Nov/engpdf/9-17.pdf |archive-date=20 August 2014 |url-status=dead}}

Career

In 2005 Rout won her first national title, under-11 girls at Nagpur. In 2006, she was both the Indian under-13 girls champion and the Asian under-12 girls champion.[http://orisports.com/PersonDetails.aspx?pId=Mw== Personalities: Padmini Rout]. Orisports.com Rout won the U14 girls' section of both Asian{{cite web |last=Akbarinia |first=Arash |title=Asian Youth Championship in Teheran |url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/asian-youth-championship-in-teheran/368 |publisher=ChessBase |accessdate=22 February 2016 |date=2008-07-24}} and World Youth Chess Championships in 2008. The following year she finished first in the Asian Junior (Under-20) Girls Championship.[http://www.chess-results.com/tnr23503.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&wi=821 Asian Junior Girls Chess Championship 2009]. chess-results.com. In 2010, she won the Indian junior (U19) girls championship and took the bronze medal at both Asian[http://www.chess-results.com/tnr35148.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&wi=821 Asian Junior Girls Chess Championship 2010]. chess-results.com. and World Junior Girls Championships.{{Cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/chess/Negi-disappoints-but-Padmini-wins-bronze/articleshow/6322267.cms |title=Negi disappoints but Padmini wins bronze - Times of India |date=2010-08-17 |website=The Times of India |access-date=2019-11-01}}[http://www.chess-results.com/tnr37179.aspx?lan=1&art=1&wi=821 World Junior Girls Championship 2010]. chess-results.com.

In the Asian Individual Women's Championship 2011 she tied for 2nd–6th places[http://www.chess-results.com/tnr49119.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1&wi=1000 Asian Individual Women Chess Championship 2011]. chess-results.com. and won it in 2018.{{Cite web |url=http://chess-results.com/tnr397825.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&turdet=YES&flag=30 |title=17th Asian Continental Chess Championships (2nd Manny Pacquiao Cup) |website=chess-results.com |access-date=2019-08-08}} Rout won the Indian Women's Championship in 2014,[http://www.chess-results.com/tnr149511.aspx?lan=1&art=1&wi=821 41st National Women Premier Chess Championship-2014]. chess-results.com. 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2015, she also became the Commonwealth women's champion.{{cite web |title=Abhijeet Gupta wins Commonwealth Chess Championship |url=http://ww2.delhichess.com/2015/06/30/439/ |publisher=Delhi Chess Association |accessdate=22 February 2016 |date=2015-06-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034952/http://ww2.delhichess.com/2015/06/30/439/ |archivedate=4 March 2016}}

Rout played for the Indian national team at Women's Chess Olympiad, Women's World Team Chess Championship and Women's Asian Team Chess Championship.{{Cite web |url=http://aicf.in/asian-nations-cup-team-india-bags-four-medals/ |title=Asian Nations Cup: Team India bags four medals! – All India Chess Federation {{!}} Official Website|access-date=2019-08-08}}

She won an individual gold medal playing on the reserve board at the 2014 Women's Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway.[http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/kimk6yqd.html Women's Chess Olympiads: Rout Padmini]. OlimpBase. She has been part of the Indian women's team in the subsequent Chess Olympiads in 2016 at Baku, Azerbaijan{{Cite web |url=http://www.bakuchessolympiad.com/content/54 |title=Women |website=www.bakuchessolympiad.com |access-date=2019-08-08}} and 2018 at Batumi, Georgia.{{Cite web |url=https://batumi2018.fide.com/en/teams/india/Woman |title=India - The 43rd Chess Olympiad, Batumi 2018 Georgia |website=batumi2018.fide.com |language=en |access-date=2019-08-08}} She was part of the second Indian women's team at the Chess Olympiad 2022 in Chennai, India, playing at the second board. The team finished as eight.

Personal life

Born in Barambagarh, Odisha,[https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=5029295&title=WIM&pb=17 WIM title application]. FIDE.[https://ratings.fide.com/crt/main221033.pdf IM title application]. FIDE. Padmini started playing chess at the age of 9 (2003) because of her father Dr. Ashok Kumar Rout's passion for the game. She did her schooling from D.A.V. Public School, Chandrasekharpur and graduated in Commerce from BJB College in Bhubaneswar. On 28 Jan 2024, Padmini married Jaikishin Mankani in Bhubaneswar.{{Cite web |date=2024-01-29 |title=Odisha Chess Icon Padmini Rout Ties the Knot in Grand Ceremony - Odisha Bhaskar English |url=https://odishabhaskar.in/odisha/odisha-chess-icon-padmini-rout-wedding-67856/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |language=en-US}}

Achievements

Won her first National under-11 girls in 2005 at Nagpur and also won National under-13 girls in Kolkata.
Individual Gold medal for reserve board in Women's in Tromsø Olympiad 2014
Gold medal in Asian Continental Women 2018
Four-times consecutive National Women's Premier Champion (2014-2017)
Gold in Blitz, Silver in both Rapid and Classical format in Asian Nations Cup 2014 for Team India
Gold in Blitz, Silver in Rapid and Bronze in Classical format in Asian Nations Cup 2018 for Team India
Gold in Asian under-12 girls and under-14 girls in 2006 and 2008 respectively.
Gold in Asian Junior (under-20) girls in 2009 and Bronze in 2010.
Gold in Commonwealth Women's in 2015.
Gold in World Youth under-14 in 2008.
Bronze in World Junior 2010.
Bronze in Asian Continental Women's Blitz in 2017.
Bronze in Asian Indoor Games in Rapid for Team India in 2017.
Won National Junior girls in 2010.
Biju Patnaik Sports Award for the year 2007.
Winner of Ekalavya Award in 2009.{{Cite web |date=5 January 2019 |title=The 'Indian Chess Queen' Padmini Rout turns 25 - ChessBase India |url=https://www.chessbase.in/news/Indian-Chess-Queen-Padmini-Rout-25th-birthday |access-date=2019-11-22 |website=www.chessbase.in}}