Supratit is chaperoned for the week by his father Sudhir who works in finance.
He admits to spending a lot of time “pacing around hotel rooms with his laptop”.
Being flexible around work has been a necessity as his son progresses in the game.
“All our leave is used on travelling to tournaments,” he says.
“We’ve been to Georgia, Hungary, Germany, Norway… but we are always sitting in our hotel room waiting for his game to be over.
“If anyone asks us for holiday tips I tell them we know about airports and hotels but don’t ask us about sightseeing.”
The schoolboy, who practises 20 hours a week around his studies, manages to win enough games in Sheffield to gain his second norm.
In chess a player needs three norms to become a chess master.
Arnott is convinced he will be a “star of the future”.
The chair of the Chess Centre, which has swelled to more than 80 members in recent years, is hoping to be in attendance at the Olympiad, albeit in a coaching capacity.
“I’ve been working with the Papua New Guinea national team,” he says.
“I can’t suddenly make them much better players but we go through potential moves and focus in detail on potential opponents.”
Jones too is looking forward to competing in Asia in the autumn.
After narrowly losing to Gumularz in Sheffield, the former British champion says he is “feeling sharper”.
“I think you can lose a bit of focus when you get older but I’ve still got ambitions,” he says.
“I’ve won the British Championships a few times and I’d like to challenge and try and win it again and just see how it goes, hopefully as the children grow up a bit I can regain my focus on chess and just see what level I can get to.”
