Birth Date: | 16 October 1977 |
Candidate Master (2009) | |
Peakrating: | 2040 (January 2010) |
Manoj Kumar is a Fijian chess player who has won the Fiji National Championship eight times: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.The Fiji Sports Councils Awards named him Fiji national domestic Player of the year twice, in 2007 and 2008.[1]
Kumar won the first Fiji Invitational Championship in 2003.[2]
Kumar represented Fiji in the most Oceania championships: 2001; 2007 Nadi, Fiji;[1] 2009 Gold Coast; and 2011 Rotoura, New Zealand. Kumar also represented Fiji in three Chess Olympiads.[1] [3]