PANJIM: Young Sairaj Vernekar has achieved FIDE chess rating of 1055 and 1095 in rapid chess, recently.
The seven-year-old is a second standard student of Manovikas School Margao. He recently participated at the U-7 National Chess championship in Chennai conducted by Tamil Nadu Chess Association and stood seventh out of 156 participants from the country. He played against nine rated players and scored six points. He is one of the youngest players in the State to get the ratings.
