 The same year, he also won the silver medal in U-16 Sub-Junior National Chess Championship.Later that year he increased his ELO rating to 2300+ by his performance in the National B Chess Championship, 2002.He played fewer games due to examinations, but in 2003, he won the U-16 Commonwealth Chess Championship and was a member of the team which won the bronze medal at The Youth Chess Olympiad held at Denizli, Turkey.