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Mehul Gohil

Number of games in database: 17
Years covered: 2012 to 2020
Last FIDE rating: 1979 (1970 rapid, 1936 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2102
Overall record: +5 -9 =3 (38.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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MEHUL GOHIL
(born Jun-03-1979, 46 years old) Kenya

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Mehul Gohil was born on June 3, 1979 (per correction slip). He won the Nairobi open in 2016.

References: (1) http://www.kenyachessmasala.com/201... , (2) http://www.chess5.com/viewgame2.php...

Last updated: 2020-12-05 10:00:17

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. N Djukic vs M Gohil  1-0282012Istanbul OlympiadB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
2. M Gohil vs C Prasad  ½-½392012Istanbul OlympiadA31 English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation
3. M Gohil vs T Kulpruethanon  ½-½642012Istanbul OlympiadD43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
4. G Berardi vs M Gohil  0-1372012Istanbul OlympiadA22 English
5. C Chipanga vs M Gohil  1-0592012Istanbul OlympiadE61 King's Indian
6. Yeh Yang Liu vs M Gohil  1-0762012Istanbul OlympiadB50 Sicilian
7. M Gohil vs Z Al-Zendani  0-1312012Istanbul OlympiadB43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3
8. H Stefansson vs M Gohil  1-0232012Istanbul OlympiadB03 Alekhine's Defense
9. A Obodchuk vs M Gohil  1-0432012Istanbul OlympiadD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
10. M Gohil vs M Hamal  1-0662012Istanbul OlympiadE38 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 4...c5
11. Shawal Sharikhan vs M Gohil  0-1302020FIDE Online OlympiadC01 French, Exchange
12. M Gohil vs Albert Njau  0-1332020FIDE Online OlympiadA45 Queen's Pawn Game
13. Ali Al-Ghasra vs M Gohil  0-1432020FIDE Online OlympiadD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
14. M Gohil vs R Jaiswal  ½-½662020FIDE Online OlympiadA45 Queen's Pawn Game
15. M Gohil vs Shuaau Muhammed  1-0562020FIDE Online OlympiadD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
16. Tupfah Khumnorkaew vs M Gohil  1-0752020FIDE Online OlympiadD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
17. R Song vs M Gohil  1-0342020FIDE Online OlympiadD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
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Kibitzer's Corner
Sep-08-20  login:

Mehul Gohil (born 1981, Nairobi) is a writer and Kenya Chess Champion.


About writing:

'.. When I was ten years old the mall had a secondhand bookshop. It was my birthday and my dad said pick what you want. I wanted big thick books, not the picture books. The first books I picked up were Philip K. Dick, Samuel Delaney, and Fritz Leiber. I really thought Leiber was good and I understood Dick even as a kid. I liked that in Dick no one is surprised by the new technology—it’s normal and everyday. The spaceship lands and no one cares. ..'

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fict...


About chess:

Q: How were you introduced to the game of chess?

Gohil: I learnt chess by mistake way back in December 1992.

I was transitioning to Standard 5, and my dad took me to buy the textbooks for the new school year at Text Book Center. We did the book shopping. On reaching home, we realised the cashier made a mistake. Put in a book meant for another shopper.

That book was BEGIN CHESS by David Brine Pritchard . I spent the 1992 Christmas holidays learning the moves from the book. I learnt the moves then forgot about that book.

Then a few weeks later, over a weekend, I got bored at home. At random, I picked up the book again and flipped to the second chapter, which was on tactics. There I saw pins, forks, skewers, double-check etc. I was hooked as I found out the game had so much to it.

...

Q: Did you have periods of stagnation?

Gohil: I just stopped playing chess during the years 1997 – 2002 to concentrate on my higher studies. Looking back, this was a significant mistake. Had I continued studying chess, I believe I would have been much stronger right now. I should not have neglected chess in those formative years.

(Excerpts from a diversified 'Interview with [2019] Kenya Chess Champion Mehul Gohil' by University of Nairobi Chess Club members, on July 17, 2020)

https://kenyachessmasala.com/2020/0...


Mehul Gohil receives KES 1,000 from Penny
https://i1.wp.com/africachessmedia....


Trivia: Mehul is an Indian male given name of Sanskrit origin, meaning rain or cloud. His great-grandfather was Indian.


Apr-30-24
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  GrahamClayton: 2014, 2019 and 2023 Kenyan champion, winning a Mazda car for the two latest victories:

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