Tania Sachdev is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is also a chess presenter and commentator.Tania is a recipient of India’s highest sporting honour, the Arjuna Award, which she received in 2009. She was ranked among the top 50 women’s chess players as per the FIDE world chess rankings 2014.

Born in Delhi, Sachdev was introduced to the game by her mother, Anju, at the age of 6. Her parents provided her with professional training. She achieved her first international title when she was eight.

She was coached by K.C. Joshi during her early years. As a child, Tania Sachdev won multiple events. Her career successes are under-12 Indian champion, Asian U14 girls’ champion in 2000 and bronze medalist at the 1998 World U12 Girls Championship. In 2002, she won the Asian Junior Girls Championship in Marawila.

In 2005, she became the eighth Indian player to be awarded the Woman Grandmaster title. She won India’s National Women’s Premier Chess Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2007, she also won the Women’s Asian Chess Championship with 6½ points out of nine rounds in Tehran.

In 2016, Sachdev won the best woman’s prize at the Reykjavik Open and won the Common-wealth women’s champion title in Kalutara.

She has played for the Indian national team in the Women’s Chess Olympiads since 2008, the Women’s World Team Chess Championship in 2009 and 2011, the Women’s Asian Team Chess Championship since 2003, the 2006 Asian Games, and the 2009 Asian Indoor Games.

Sachdev won the individual bronze medal for board 3 at the 2012 Women’s Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, four team silver medals (in 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2014) and four individual ones (three silver and one bronze) at the Women’s Asian Team Championship.

Sachdev has presented a Fritztrainer Strategy DVD for Chessbase and was a member of the official commentary team for the 2013 (Chennai) World Championship Match between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand.