Ivana felicitated at Nagpur!

World Under 8 Girls Chess Champion and Goa's Wondergirl
Ivana Furtado was felicitated at her arrival in Nagpur for
the Raisoni Memorial All India FIDE Rating tournament.
Ivana and her mother Mrs. Jannifer Furtado were received
by Advocate A.A. Bade, who is the Chief Organiser of the
tournament, and International Master Anup Deshmukh.

A large contingent of the press also interviewed her and asked
her a variety of questions to which the little genius gave
befitting answers! Ivana went on later to complete her FIDE rating
in the very same tournament after holding Anuprita Patil (ELO 2106)
to a draw in the first round. Incidentally, Anuprita had qualified for
the National Women's 'A' tournament earlier this year. In Nagpur,
Ivana won three trophies and will get an initial rating of approximately
1859 ELO points.

Ivana completed the first part of her rating in Mangalore where
she beat Samrat Ghorai of the Goodricke Chess Academy, Kolkata
and scored 1.5/4 points against rated opposition.