{"id":130555,"date":"2026-08-27T04:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/northeasts-first-gm-17-yo-mayank-and-pupil-pratitee-become-asias-chess-champions\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T04:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:36:11","slug":"northeasts-first-gm-17-yo-mayank-and-pupil-pratitee-become-asias-chess-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/northeasts-first-gm-17-yo-mayank-and-pupil-pratitee-become-asias-chess-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast&#8217;s first GM, 17-yo Mayank and pupil Pratitee become Asia&#8217;s chess champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkable teacher-student story from the Asian Junior Chess Championships, where India\u2019s 94th GM and Northeast\u2019s first GM, 17-year-old Mayank Chakraborty, and his 13-year-old pupil Pratitee Bordoloi won the classical titles in Mumbai. The story explores their three-month mentoring journey, the pressure of being top seeds, Pratitee\u2019s WGM norm, and Mayank\u2019s rise while balancing his own career with mentoring.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkable teacher-student story from the Asian Junior Chess Championships, where India\u2019s 94th GM and Northeast\u2019s first GM, 17-year-old Mayank Chakraborty, and his 13-year-old pupil Pratitee Bordoloi won the classical titles in Mumbai. The story explores their three-month mentoring journey, the pressure of being top seeds, Pratitee\u2019s WGM norm, and Mayank\u2019s rise while balancing his&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/northeasts-first-gm-17-yo-mayank-and-pupil-pratitee-become-asias-chess-champions\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Northeast&#8217;s first GM, 17-yo Mayank and pupil Pratitee become Asia&#8217;s chess champions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":130556,"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\/130555"}],"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=130555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}