Sweety Patel of India Wins National Child Award

Sweety of Surat gets National Child Award 2009-02-06 05:24:49 Gujarat Global News Network, Surat Sweety Patel [born 1998], young chess champion from Surat, received the prestigious National Child Award on Thursday at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. Sweety is a Class VI student of P P Sawani School at Abrahma in Surat. She was also honoured with the Junior Eklavya Award by Chief Minister Narendara Modi in 2008 for exhibiting overall excellence in chess. Sweety had earlier won the world School Chess Championship (Under 9) held in Greece in 2007. She had also won the Asian Youth Girls Chess Championship (Under 8) in Iran in 2006. In the same year, she won the World Youth Chess Championship (Under 8) held in Georgia. "Her dream is to become the youngest international grandmaster," according to her father Dr Navneet Patel.