Having played in various national level chess tournaments, Kiyana feels that chess is a game full of fun. She is slated to represent the country in the World Cadet Championship going to be held in Egypt and aspires to win the title for India. Mount Litera Zee School is where she is presently enrolled in classes.

The Initiation

Kiyana has been playing Chess since a very young age . She says that she went to a resort when she was two and a half years old where she played chess for the first time with her father and that is when her interest in the game developed. Later, she played in a chess tournament and earned two points out of five and thereafter, looking at her interest in the game, her parents enrolled her to professional chess training at the age of five.

Gurus & Role Models

Kiyana learns chess at the Kingdom of Chess Academy. Talking about her role models, Kiyana says that she aspires to become a great chess player like Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh D, and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa.

The Talent

Kiyana informs that in a chess board there are sixty four squares, thirty two black and thirty two white. The chess pieces are named as pawns(soldiers), knights(horses), bishops(camels), elephants(rooks), king, and queen.

Achievements

Kiyana was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation in the Independence Day function. She has won a total of sixty trophies in chess and has received gold and silver medals in the Under-7 National Chess Championship. Kiyana has been the State Champion in chess twice and she is Rajasthan’s youngest Rated Chess Player. She has also won Double gold medals in Martial Arts.

A Bit More

Kiyana is also a Martial Arts player. She is also interested in Drawing. Advising the youngsters, Kiyana says that every kid should play some or the other sport according to their interest. “Let the bird fly in the endless sky” is the quote that motivates and inspires her a lot.