Bhakti Kulkarni

Bhakti Kulkarni is an Indian chess player. She received the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster in 2012 and International Master in 2019.
She is a recipient of the Arjuna Award for her contribution to chess.

Biography

She won the National Junior Girls Chess Championship (India) twice in 2007 and 2009. In 2011, she won the Asian Junior Chess Championship. In 2013, she finished first at the international women's chess tournament in Czech Republic — Open Vysočina. In 2016, she won the Asian Chess Women Championship.
She played for the Indian team in the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship, in which she participated twice. In the individual competition she won the bronze medal.