Prathamesh Mokal | |
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Full name | Prathamesh Sunil Mokal |
Country | India |
Born | Pune, Maharashtra, India | 1 October 1983
Title | International Master (2003) |
Peak rating | 2411 (May 2010) |
Prathamesh Mokal (born 1 October 1983) is an Indian chess player. He is an International Master as well as FIDE Trainer, and won the Shiv Chhatrapati Award (2005).[1] He is also a black belt (Sho Dan) in karate and koryū. He received the Shiv-Chhatrapati Award from Maharashtra government in 2004 for his achievements in Chess.[1][2]
He was a part of live web video commentary during the World Junior Chess Championship 2014.[3][4][5] held in Pune.
Prathamesh reviewed the latest version of the most popular professional chess software ChessBase13.[6] He gives a trainer's perspective while explaining some of its fundamental functions. He also annotated the games in the article written by Sagar Shah on Al Ain tournament.[7]
Prathamesh was a Coach of Mumbai Movers team in the Maharashtra Chess League,[16][17] held in Pune in June 2014.[18][19]
His student Saloni Sapale won silver in the World Amateur Chess Championship,[20] (Women) held at Singapore in April–May 2014.[21][22][23][24] She won the silver medal at World school Chess Championship in the Under-17 age group in 2015.[25] She became an International Woman Master (IWM) in 2018 [26] for which she won the State's prestigious award: The Shiv Chattrapati Award in 2019.[27][28]
His student Raahil Mullick won gold medal at Commonwealth Chess Championship in the Under 10 age group in 2017.[29] He became an International Master (IM) at the age of 12 in October 2019.[30][31][32][33]