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Bathinda, August 5, 2025 — Eight-year-old Tanishka from Bathinda has created history by becoming the youngest female from Punjab to earn an international FIDE chess rating. She achieved this significant milestone during the National Chess Tournament (Under-9 category) held in Gurugram last month.The official ratings were released in early August by FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), the international governing body of chess, following their standard global update cycle.Previously, Tanvir Kaur Khinda held the record as Punjab’s youngest FIDE-rated female player at just over nine years old. Tanishka has now broken that record at eight years and four months.To earn an…