Mrittika Mallick gets the ChessBase India YouTube memberships for the month of February 2022

by Sagar Shah - 22/11/2022

Mrittika Mallick is one of the most talented youngsters of Indian chess. She became the national under-14 champion in 2022. This allowed her to participate at the Asian Championships 2022 where she won two medals for India and also finished 4th at the World Youth Championships under-14. It is quite clear that the girl is gifted. However, she hails from a family that has modest finiancial means. Her father's yearly income is less than Rs.3 lakh. In order that Mrittika can continue her journey into the world of chess confidently and become better we are giving her the February YouTube memberships of Rs.55,026. Along with it we have two donors who have contributed individually bringing the total amount to Rs.1,02,526.

The Hooghly Hurricane - Mrittika Mallick gets the February 2022 YouTube memberships

One of the things we are proud of at ChessBase India is the YouTube Membership Program. Each month, there are people who contribute an amount and this amount is used to propel the chess career of one talented player in the right direction. We are doing this for over a year and the fund of each month is used with great care. For the month of February 2022, we have collected Rs. 55026. We have had 62 pillars of Indian chess, 5 Promoters, 22 Supporters, 30 Boosters and 152 backers of Indian chess making it a total of 271 YouTube members. We also had two special donors who have contributed a total of Rs.47,500. The details of it are mentioned towards the end of the article. This makes the total contribution for the month of February 2022 - Rs. 102,526.

Details of all the members who have contributed:

	Member	Current level	Amount
1	Avik Bose	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
2	HT TV	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
3	Just A Famous Guy	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
4	Harish Srinivasan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
5	Anondo Das Gupta	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
6	Aanand Bala	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
7	Kalpak Raut	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
8	Mrityunjay Jalan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
9	Kalpak Tole	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
10	Prathamesh Mahajan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
11	puneet bhatia	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
12	Tejas Chitnis	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
13	Joy Dutta	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
14	Vivaswan Damle	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
15	Asim Khan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
16	Adwait Anand	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
17	Shashwat Mishra.	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
18	PHOENIX?	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
19	Jay Khunt	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
20	Sambit Ghosh	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
21	Mr VG	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
22	chiranjibi sahoo	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
23	Naveen Bharathwaj	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
24	Vignesh Subramanian	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
25	Abhishek Deshpande	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
26	Ashwin S. Hebbar	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
27	Madhuchethan Rao	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
28	Vishwajeet Dagar	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
29	Swapnil	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
30	Mihir Sawant	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
31	Vamsi Chada	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
32	Pranav Kulkarni	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
33	Rohit Bhangale	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
34	Naveen Kumar	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
35	damnit	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
36	shreyas gokhale	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
37	Manaswi Mishra	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
38	Shashank Srikant	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
39	Swehil	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
40	sanket panaskar	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
41	Saurabh Dhamnaskar	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
42	nishant panigrahi	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
43	nabh choudhary	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
44	nutan dutt	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
45	Ajin Cherian	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
46	Sriraam Ramakrishnan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
47	Aditya Desai	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
48	Dan Ruparel	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
49	ruchir sutaria	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
50	RahulMukerji09	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
51	Tony Dary	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
52	Ankita Kulkarni	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
53	Sminil Mahajan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
54	Anas Edacherry	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
55	KolonNiki	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
56	shyammsm	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
57	Dharmen Shah	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
58	Zeus	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
59	Keith Mascarenhas	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
60	Siddharth Ranadive	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
61	Sudarshan Rangan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
62	Ajeet prsingh	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
63	Eesha Dutta	Promoter of Indian chess	599
64	Mohnish Sharma	Promoter of Indian chess	599
65	ajay g	Promoter of Indian chess	599
66	Pratham Shah	Promoter of Indian chess	599
67	Lakshya	Promoter of Indian chess	599
68	varun kamble	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
69	Mohith T S	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
70	My Ex	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
71	Pratik Shetty	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
72	Shivam Upadhyay	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
73	Arvind Ramnath	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
74	Manu Talwar	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
75	Kaivalya Shah	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
76	Murali Phani	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
77	Sandeep Deb	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
78	Arunava Bhattacharjee	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
79	Arvind Raman	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
80	Indian From South	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
81	rutvij bhavsar	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
82	hellking4u	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
83	Rajeev Ranjan	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
84	Nishaad Rao	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
85	Sai Gudigundla	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
86	Sanu Pillai Vlogs	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
87	kshitiz lohani	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
88	Sachin Ranade	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
89	Gokul Ramanathan	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
90	Gaurav Chandiramani	Booster of Indian Chess	199
91	siddartha pendlimarri	Booster of Indian Chess	199
92	Ivan Mukherjee	Booster of Indian Chess	199
93	Rakshank Savadatti	Booster of Indian Chess	199
94	Swapnil Sharma	Booster of Indian Chess	199
95	FlashBin Gaming	Booster of Indian Chess	199
96	abjunior	Booster of Indian Chess	199
97	Sumit Nahata	Booster of Indian Chess	199
98	SUDARSHAN K M	Booster of Indian Chess	199
99	avant jain	Booster of Indian Chess	199
100	Diljeet Singh Narwal	Booster of Indian Chess	199
101	Krishna Pandit	Booster of Indian Chess	199
102	Adithya K	Booster of Indian Chess	199
103	WoT Hog	Booster of Indian Chess	199
104	Pratyush Sharma	Booster of Indian Chess	199
105	Sudheer Kumar	Booster of Indian Chess	199
106	Kappa 322	Booster of Indian Chess	199
107	Himanshu Bhasin	Booster of Indian Chess	199
108	Mann Sareen	Booster of Indian Chess	199
109	SATHISH KUNCHIVEEDU	Booster of Indian Chess	199
110	Jai Pandit	Booster of Indian Chess	199
111	Prakhar Gupta	Booster of Indian Chess	199
112	Ankush Dhyani	Booster of Indian Chess	199
113	BunnyEatWorld	Booster of Indian Chess	199
114	Akshit Johry	Booster of Indian Chess	199
115	Tanmay Devi	Booster of Indian Chess	199
116	Yash	Booster of Indian Chess	199
117	Akshay Shenoy	Booster of Indian Chess	199
118	Mahesh Parab	Booster of Indian Chess	199
119	Siddharth Sen	Booster of Indian Chess	199
120	Sarvesh Deshpande	Backer of Indian Chess	89
121	Soham Pandya	Backer of Indian Chess	89
122	Dhairya Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
123	Sharat Goswami	Backer of Indian Chess	89
124	BHAGYASHREE KADUSKAR	Backer of Indian Chess	89
125	Shikhar Sharma	Backer of Indian Chess	89
126	Raj Agarwal	Backer of Indian Chess	89
127	Sagar Rathod	Backer of Indian Chess	89
128	arun Taccode	Backer of Indian Chess	89
129	Abhishek Damle	Backer of Indian Chess	89
130	Arjan Singh Bhatty	Backer of Indian Chess	89
131	Sv Scibi	Backer of Indian Chess	89
132	Rajan Pingle	Backer of Indian Chess	89
133	Akshay Telang	Backer of Indian Chess	89
134	Rishikesh Kanegaonkar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
135	Shubh Kela	Backer of Indian Chess	89
136	Snigdho Bhattacharya	Backer of Indian Chess	89
137	Om Prajapati	Backer of Indian Chess	89
138	Shamika Dalvi	Backer of Indian Chess	89
139	vijay bhuskute	Backer of Indian Chess	89
140	Karthik Velturi	Backer of Indian Chess	89
141	Neeraj Nambudiri	Backer of Indian Chess	89
142	Bustanul Arifin	Backer of Indian Chess	89
143	Akul S	Backer of Indian Chess	89
144	Harsh Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
145	Wesley So	Backer of Indian Chess	89
146	stpalli	Backer of Indian Chess	89
147	hsihsahenS	Backer of Indian Chess	89
148	Rohit Sajeev	Backer of Indian Chess	89
149	Chinmay	Backer of Indian Chess	89
150	Naman Dhingra	Backer of Indian Chess	89
151	Meet Modiani	Backer of Indian Chess	89
152	Avinash Pawar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
153	pierre gravagna	Backer of Indian Chess	89
154	Krishna Subramanian	Backer of Indian Chess	89
155	Tushar Dahake	Backer of Indian Chess	89
156	Lovesh Tulsija	Backer of Indian Chess	89
157	Vinit Mamania	Backer of Indian Chess	89
158	agam dixit	Backer of Indian Chess	89
159	Nikhil Goyal	Backer of Indian Chess	89
160	Akshay P	Backer of Indian Chess	89
161	Pratyayan DasGupta	Backer of Indian Chess	89
162	Aditya Bankar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
163	Sumalya Bhattacharya	Backer of Indian Chess	89
164	Ayushi Sharma	Backer of Indian Chess	89
165	Mahesh Sarma	Backer of Indian Chess	89
166	d s	Backer of Indian Chess	89
167	Pranjal Jindal	Backer of Indian Chess	89
168	Bablu badmash	Backer of Indian Chess	89
169	D SANDEEP	Backer of Indian Chess	89
170	Akshay Paralikar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
171	Akshit Kr Nagpal	Backer of Indian Chess	89
172	Hiren patel	Backer of Indian Chess	89
173	Nitish Mody	Backer of Indian Chess	89
174	Suraj Ranawade	Backer of Indian Chess	89
175	Swapan Karmakar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
176	Ryan Berg	Backer of Indian Chess	89
177	Ninad O	Backer of Indian Chess	89
178	Nishchay Shah	Backer of Indian Chess	89
179	Saurabh Verma	Backer of Indian Chess	89
180	franklin abraham	Backer of Indian Chess	89
181	The Average FPL Manager	Backer of Indian Chess	89
182	Hrushikesh Patil	Backer of Indian Chess	89
183	Mahanthi Bukkapatnam	Backer of Indian Chess	89
184	palash nagdevte	Backer of Indian Chess	89
185	M3	Backer of Indian Chess	89
186	nimit sharma	Backer of Indian Chess	89
187	Akash 13	Backer of Indian Chess	89
188	SomeoneSpecial447	Backer of Indian Chess	89
189	Indrajeet Devale	Backer of Indian Chess	89
190	orangelava	Backer of Indian Chess	89
191	Karini Sandeep Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
192	Vishal09	Backer of Indian Chess	89
193	Chaliceter	Backer of Indian Chess	89
194	Aditya Jadhav	Backer of Indian Chess	89
195	Gaurab	Backer of Indian Chess	89
196	Abhishek Rai	Backer of Indian Chess	89
197	Arshad84	Backer of Indian Chess	89
198	Rabia Singh	Backer of Indian Chess	89
199	Akshay Kulkarni	Backer of Indian Chess	89
200	Parth Thakkar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
201	harshit vora	Backer of Indian Chess	89
202	anmol welpulwar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
203	Akshat	Backer of Indian Chess	89
204	sarat pavan	Backer of Indian Chess	89
205	Deepesh Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
206	Soumyaranjan Mishra	Backer of Indian Chess	89
207	Anirvan Sengupta	Backer of Indian Chess	89
208	Tube or Not Tube	Backer of Indian Chess	89
209	shas k	Backer of Indian Chess	89
210	Gunin Khanna	Backer of Indian Chess	89
211	Rahul Arvind	Backer of Indian Chess	89
212	gobletFire	Backer of Indian Chess	89
213	Mihir Hasabnis	Backer of Indian Chess	89
214	Nitin Desai	Backer of Indian Chess	89
215	Bhavik Makan	Backer of Indian Chess	89
216	Aravind Pathapati	Backer of Indian Chess	89
217	Jalaj Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
218	Anand C U	Backer of Indian Chess	89
219	Rahul Ghosal	Backer of Indian Chess	89
220	Bhargav Srinivasan	Backer of Indian Chess	89
221	Sandeep Madheshiya	Backer of Indian Chess	89
222	Nagesh Anthati	Backer of Indian Chess	89
223	Rajat Kamtekar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
224	Chairab Madaan	Backer of Indian Chess	89
225	devan sra	Backer of Indian Chess	89
226	Krishna Char	Backer of Indian Chess	89
227	ScaleTale	Backer of Indian Chess	89
228	Muralikrishna Gangaraju	Backer of Indian Chess	89
229	Abhishek Desai	Backer of Indian Chess	89
230	Shaurya Mathur	Backer of Indian Chess	89
231	Naveen	Backer of Indian Chess	89
232	vedaant rana	Backer of Indian Chess	89
233	Gokul	Backer of Indian Chess	89
234	SANSAR RANA	Backer of Indian Chess	89
235	Shiva Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
236	Jay Dave	Backer of Indian Chess	89
237	Raghava Madhwapathi	Backer of Indian Chess	89
238	Yash Tandon	Backer of Indian Chess	89
239	Pranti Bordoloi	Backer of Indian Chess	89
240	Srinath Narayanan	Backer of Indian Chess	89
241	K.V.P.Varma Kuchelapaati	Backer of Indian Chess	89
242	Dhandeep Lodaya	Backer of Indian Chess	89
243	Kartik	Backer of Indian Chess	89
244	Akshay Natu	Backer of Indian Chess	89
245	Smita Acharya	Backer of Indian Chess	89
246	Henal Merchant	Backer of Indian Chess	89
247	Sai Praveen Gummadi	Backer of Indian Chess	89
248	2856Rohit	Backer of Indian Chess	89
249	Swapnil Sen	Backer of Indian Chess	89
250	thiedevil	Backer of Indian Chess	89
251	Chandrasekhar S.	Backer of Indian Chess	89
252	Abhishek Agarwal	Backer of Indian Chess	89
253	Phani Varma	Backer of Indian Chess	89
254	Raj S	Backer of Indian Chess	89
255	Pratip Rao	Backer of Indian Chess	89
256	Shubham Shah	Backer of Indian Chess	89
257	Chetan Suresh	Backer of Indian Chess	89
258	Kumar Roy	Backer of Indian Chess	89
259	Harjaap Singh	Backer of Indian Chess	89
260	Siddhant	Backer of Indian Chess	89
261	Hardik Rudani	Backer of Indian Chess	89
262	Aseem Goel	Backer of Indian Chess	89
263	Anusheela Das	Backer of Indian Chess	89
264	Snehal Pathak	Backer of Indian Chess	89
265	N M	Backer of Indian Chess	89
266	Neo0889	Backer of Indian Chess	89
267	GizmoGirl	Backer of Indian Chess	89
268	Mayur Gondhalekar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
269	Anish Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
270	Shyamal patel	Backer of Indian Chess	89
271	Rijoy Mukherjee	Backer of Indian Chess	89

The total amount of memberships after deducting YouTube charges (30%) comes to Rs.55,026. The player who receives this amount is the young and talented Mrittika Mallick from West Bengal.

Mrittika Mallick with her father after winning the under-14 national championships 2022

I could tell you about why we chose Mrittika as the winner of the ChessBase India YouTube memberships scholarship for the month of February 2022, but the interview (below) with her father can give you a better idea of this young talent and her situation.

Interview with Arindham Mallick, Mrittika's Father

Sagar Shah (SS): Tell us about your profession and background.

Arindham Mallick (AM): I am from a middle class family. My father was a music teacher and mother a homemaker. I am a small time businessman – a distributor of cable line. I also have a small stationary shop. My wife Minakshi Mallick is a homemaker. Mrittika was born on 05.01.2008 at Hooghly, West Bengal. She has an elder sister.

SS: Was there something about Mrittika that made you feel she can become a good chess player?

AM: Each child seems the most intelligent or smartest to his/her parents! It is not possible for me to specify any particular act or work of Mrittika that can be identified to be the early signs of her smartness or intelligence. The only unusual thing I noticed in her was that she liked to watch the playing of cards of the elders in our locality when she was very young (about 6 years old). Maybe this showed that she had a lot of patience, which is an important quality to have to succeed in chess.

Back in 2019, when Mrittika receives the prize at an under-11 tournament at the hands of GM Dibyendu Barua

SS: How did Mrittika learn chess?

AM: When I saw that Mrittika has this habit of observing people playing cards in the locality, I requested one of our neighbours Ms. Bani Sarkar to show her how to play chess and in this process she learned to play the sport.

SS: When you got to know that she is good at chess how did you plan her improvement?

AM: After being introduced to chess she got almost addicted to it and developed her skills quickly and started to defeat others quite easily. After some time we enrolled her in a local club named Town Club. Other than that we did not take any special care nor did we have any special plans for her.

SS: What have been some of the main successes of Mrittika's chess career till date?

AM: These are some of Mrittika's best achievements till date:

1. MPL 34th National Girls Chess Championship 2022 U-14 Girls 2022 Champion

2. Asian Nations Cup Online Chess Team Championship U-14 Girls 2022 Double Gold

3. MPL 37th National Sub-junior Chess Championship U-16 Girls 2022 2nd place

4. 48th WB State Junior Chess Championship U-20 Girls 2021 3rd

5. Asian School Chess Championship U-13 Girls 2021 Double Gold

6. Asian Youth Online Chess Championship U-14 Girls 2021

7. Golden Jubilee of Independence of Bangladesh 1st Division Chess League 2021 – Bronze on 3rd Board

SS: Who are the people who have helped Mrittika to reach where she is right now?

AM: It's her chess coach Mr. Durgaprasad Mahapatra and all the junior and senior player in the Alekhine Chess Club. I specially would like to mention two of my seniors who have helped me a lot - Arya Bhakta and Soham Bhattacharya.

SS: Can you tell us about your financial issues that you face and how does it impact Mrittika’s Progress.

AM: I am a small time businessman and my total yearly income is well below 3 lakhs and I find it very difficult to manage my business because I have to accompany Mrittika whenever she has to take part in any tournament, especially the ones held in other states. During the long duration of my absence my business gets neglected. It has now become very difficult for me to manage my finances because now she needs the help of a suitable coach who can guide her in her preparation for the coming national and international tournaments. But their fees are too high for my earnings.

An interview with Mrittika's father Arindham Mallick after she won the under-14 national championships

SS: Who is Mrittika’s favourite player in chess?

MM: It's Judit Polgar because I like her personality and her aggressive playing style.

It doesn't come as a surprise that Judit Polgar is Mrittika's favourite player

SS: What is Mrittika’s aim in chess?

MM: My aim in chess is just to become a strong and a good player and also to become a world class player in chess.

GM Saptarshi Roy is someone who is working regularly with Mrittika to help her reach the next level in her chess career

Speaking to ChessBase India Saptarshi Roy said, "Mrittika is extremely talented. She has a lot of patience. She is also hardworking and has a strong understanding of tactical chess. She strives to maximize the slightly better positions that she gets and tries to convert them into wins most of the times. Her understanding of chess indicates that she will end up in top 7 Indian women team players in next 5-6 years. Huge potential. I hope this scholarship will help her to reach her goal. I am thankful to ChessBase India team for their strong initiative for upcoming talents."

Harish Srinivasan, an avid follower of the ChessBase India YouTube channel has supported Mrittika with Rs.35,000

We thank Harish for his support. When we asked Harish about the reason for his support, he mentions, "As a chess lover and a chess parent, I appreciate the joy of letting the kids pursue their passion and provide unconditional relentless support. When it comes to chess, I am delighted to see courageous parents in India do this more and more often in the last decade. When I saw the YouTube video of Mrittika's father, I was honestly very moved by the vulnerability. Facilities and opportunities should always be provided to anyone with the combination of talent and hard work. I wish to be able to support such causes whenever possible. I am fortunate and privileged to be able to do this now. Wish Mrittika the very best in Life and Chess"

The family of Nandini Srikar, a well-known Bollywood singer, contributed Rs.12,500 to help Mrittika in her journey

YouTube Memberships: Rs.55,026

Harish Srinivasan: Rs.35,000

Nandini Srikar: Rs.12,500

Total amount: Rs.102,526

This entire amount will be used for Mrittika's chess development - travelling to tournaments and training. Arindham, Mrittika's father mentions, "To YouTube members, Mr. Srinivasan and Mrs. Sreekar - I just wanted to say thank you so much for helping Mrittika to continue her chess career. I greatly appreciate your assistance.

Recently Mrittika went on to win the bronze medal in classical and silver medal in blitz at Asian Championships under-14. She also finished 4th at the World Youth Championships under-14.

The Hooghly Hurricane - Mrittika Mallick

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