write a newspaper report in 100-500 words. use the prompt given below. remember to give a suitable headline to the report.
An eight year old from Delhi has won the first prize in the international youth chess tournament held in Spain beating 150 contestants from 29 countries.
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A child chess prodigy has made the city proud. Eight-year-old Kolagatla Alana Meenakshi, a Class 3 student of Timpany School, won two golds and a silver in Western Asian Junior and Youth Chess Championship, which concluded in New Delhi on Wednesday.Alana Meenakshi has dominated all the chess formats in Under-8 girls, with two gold in rapid and blitz and one bronze on classic format winning three medals for India.
On her return from New Delhi speaking to media persons here, Alana said, “I am was feeling very happy with her performance at the championship. Aparna, my mother, is my first guru.”Aparna, scientist, said she played for the State when she was in college. She said she spotted the spark in Alana when she was four years old. She introduced chess to Alana as a board game and observed that her child was picking up. Then from November 2017 she started proper coaching locally. Alana was now being trained by woman grandmaster Aarthie Ramaswamy and her Chess Gurukul coaches in Chennai, she said.