Manoj Kumar (chess player)

Manoj Kumar is a Fijian chess player who has won the Fiji National Championship eight times: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. The Fiji Sports Councils Awards named him Fiji national domestic Player of the year twice, in 2007 and 2008.

Kumar won the first Fiji Invitational Championship in 2003.

Kumar is currently working in Ministry of Economy and studying at The University of the South Pacific.

He is a highly known figure in Fiji.

Kumar represented Fiji in the most Oceania championships: 2001; 2007 Nadi, Fiji; 2009 Gold Coast; and 2011 Rotoura, New Zealand. Kumar also represented Fiji in three Chess Olympiads.