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{{Short description|Indian chess woman grandmaster (born 1992)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox chess biography
| name        = Bhakti Kulkarni
| image       = 
| caption     = 
| full_name   = <!-- if different -->
| country     = India
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1992|5|19}}
| birth_place = [[Goa]], India
| title       = {{unbulleted list
  | [[International Master]] (2019)
  | [[Woman Grandmaster]] (2012)
  }}
| rating      = [https://ratings.fide.com/profile/5019516/chart 2388] (September 2021)
| peakrating  = 2429 (August 2019)
}}

'''Bhakti Kulkarni''' (born 19 May 1992)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rediff.com/sports/report/bhakti-is-goas-first-woman-grandmaster/20120914.htm |title=Bhakti is Goa's first Woman Grandmaster - Rediff.com Sports |website=rediff.com |access-date=10 October 2018 |archive-date=10 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010174451/http://www.rediff.com/sports/report/bhakti-is-goas-first-woman-grandmaster/20120914.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> is an Indian [[chess]] player. She received the [[FIDE titles]] of [[Woman Grandmaster]] (WGM) in 2012<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=5019516&title=WGM&pb=34 |title=Title Applications - 83rd FIDE Congress 2012 - Woman Grandmaster (WGM) - Kulkarni Bhakti |website=[[FIDE.com]] |access-date=10 October 2018 |archive-date=10 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010213514/https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=5019516&title=WGM&pb=34 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://old.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/6455-list-of-titles-approved-by-the-83rd-fide-congress.html |title=List of titles approved by the 83rd FIDE Congress (1-9 September 2012) |website=[[FIDE.com]] |date=17 September 2012 |access-date=12 January 2022}}</ref> and [[International Master]] (IM) in 2019.

==Biography==
In 2011, she won the Asian Junior Chess Championship.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://chess-results.com/tnr50829.aspx?lan=1&art=4&turdet=YES&wi=821 |title=Asian Junior Girls Chess Championships 2011 |first=Heinz |last=Herzog |website=Chess-Results.com |access-date=10 October 2018 |archive-date=10 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010213522/http://chess-results.com/tnr50829.aspx?lan=1&art=4&turdet=YES&wi=821 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2013, she was the first at the international women's chess tournament in [[Czech Republic]] — ''Open Vysočina''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://chess-results.com/tnr111476.aspx?lan=1&art=4&wi=821 |title=Open Vysočina 2013 - A |first=Heinz |last=Herzog |website=Chess-Results.com |access-date=10 October 2018 |archive-date=10 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010213541/http://chess-results.com/tnr111476.aspx?lan=1&art=4&wi=821 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2016, she won the [[Asian Chess Championship|Asian Chess Women Championship]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://chessbase.in/news/interview-with-bhakti-kulkarni/ |title=Interview with Asian Women's Champion Bhakti Kulkarni - ChessBase India |website=chessbase.in |access-date=10 October 2018 |archive-date=11 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011013839/https://chessbase.in/news/interview-with-bhakti-kulkarni/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Played for Indian team in the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship, in which she participated twice (2009, 2016). In the individual competition won the bronze (2009) medal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playerss/s6caq00g.html |title=Women's Asian Team Chess Championship :: Kulkarni Bhakti |first=Wojciech |last=Bartelski |website=OlimpBase.org |access-date=10 October 2018 |archive-date=10 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010213508/http://www.olimpbase.org/playerss/s6caq00g.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{FIDE|name=Kulkarni Bhakti}}
* {{Chessgames player|120386|Kulkarni Bhakti}}
* {{365Chess.com player|Kulkarni_Bhakti}}

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{{Succession box
| title  = [[Asian Chess Championship#Women's winners|Women's Asian Chess Champion]]
| years  = 2016
| before = [[Mitra Hejazipour]]
| after  = [[Vo Thi Kim Phung]]
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{{Indian woman grandmasters}}

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[[Category:1992 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian female chess players]]
[[Category:Chess woman grandmasters]]


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