{"id":122437,"date":"2026-07-19T07:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T07:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/sleepless-nights-depressing-times-and-then-a-grandmaster-making-of-rathanvel-vs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T07:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T07:36:12","slug":"sleepless-nights-depressing-times-and-then-a-grandmaster-making-of-rathanvel-vs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/sleepless-nights-depressing-times-and-then-a-grandmaster-making-of-rathanvel-vs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepless nights, depressing times, and then a Grandmaster: Making of Rathanvel VS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After four-and-a-half years of heartbreak, sleepless nights and repeated near-misses, Rathanvel VS finally crossed the 2500 Elo mark to become India&#8217;s 99th Grandmaster. From discovering chess through a free board to overcoming injuries, financial setbacks and crushing disappointments, the 2001-born Coimbatore player&#8217;s perseverance, family support and belief transformed a long-awaited dream into reality.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four-and-a-half years of heartbreak, sleepless nights and repeated near-misses, Rathanvel VS finally crossed the 2500 Elo mark to become India&#8217;s 99th Grandmaster. From discovering chess through a free board to overcoming injuries, financial setbacks and crushing disappointments, the 2001-born Coimbatore player&#8217;s perseverance, family support and belief transformed a long-awaited dream into reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":122438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}