HerMoveNext | Coach Suhana

CHESS : COMMUNITY : COMPETITION

Her League 2022 | Coach Suhana Kumar is a rising sophomore for the 2022-23 school year. She currently attends Stuyvesant High School and went to the Salk School of Science for middle school. She was first taught how to play chess by her dad at the age of 8 and later applied her knowledge in the chess club she attended after school at PS. 116 elementary school. Here she really learned a lot about chess and gained a lot of experience playing, assisting and learning.

Suhana has played in numerous national, state and city level tournaments over her 7/8 years of playing chess. She joined HerMoveNext in 2019 where she began by playing in a few of the tournaments. She later started writing articles for the organization and as of recently, conducted an interview with a successful female chess player. She is also a junior coach for HerMoveNext and helps out with game analysis during the tournaments.

Aside from chess, Suhana plays golf and loves to sew/crochet. At school she volunteers for the Red Cross, is in the investment club and is looking to bring a HerMoveNext/a girls chess club to school.

Coach Suhana’s Her News post:
Her News | Year of The Woman in Chess