Anupama Gokhale is a former women's chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 champion of India

India

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. She was the youngest Padmashree awardee being only 16 years old when she received it. She is married to Dronacharya Award Winner (Chess Player) Raghunandan Gokhale and settled while training young aspirant chess players.

Awards

She won the Indian Chess Championship

Indian Chess Championship

The Indian Chess Championship is a yearly national chess championship of India. It was established in 1955 by the Andhra State Chess Association as a two-yearly event, but since 1971 it has been played yearly. The first edition was held in Eluru from May 15-May 28 and was jointly won by Ramchandra...

 five times
(1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, and 1997)
The Asian Chess Championship

Asian Chess Championship

The 2007 championship was a FIDE Zone 3 qualification event for the 2007 Chess World Cup, the next stage in the 2009 World Chess Championship. Ten players were qualified for the 2007 World Cup: Zhang Pengxiang , Wang Hao , Abhijit Kunte , Zhao Jun , Susanto Megaranto , Wen Yang , Darwin Laylo ,...

 twice (1985 and 1987).
She was the recipient of the Arjuna Award

Arjuna award

The Arjuna Awards were instituted in 1961 by the government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports. The award carries a cash prize of 500,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll....

 in 1990.
Padmashree Award in 1986

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