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Deep Sengupta (born 30 June 1988)[1] is a chess player from Jharkhand, India, currently residing in Kasba. Rated at 2563 Elo, he is India's 22nd grandmaster.[2]
He started chess with the Chakradharpur Chess Academy,[3] and won the World Youth Chess Championship (boys) in 2000.
He won the Indian juniors title in 2005,[4] and won his first GM norm in the World Junior Chess Championship,Kochi, INDIA in December 2004. In April 2009, he won the Doeberl Cup, against a strong field and got his second GM norm. In 2010, he tied for the top position with Tigran Gharamian and Vadim Malakhatko at the 24th Open Pierre and Vacances, thereby completing his Grandmaster Title.[5] He tied for first with Arghyadip Das in the 2010/11 Hastings Masters tournament and won the event on tie-break.[6] He has an elder brother named Pratik Sengupta who plays chess as well.
References
- ^ FIDE rating card for Deep Sengupta
- ^ "Deep likely to be awarded with the GM title". The Times Of India. 9 March 2010. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/top-stories/Deep-likely-to-be-awarded-with-the-GM-title/articleshow/5662432.cms.
- ^ Thaker (2010-03-09). "Finally, a Grandmaster from home". The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata). http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100309/jsp/jharkhand/story_12194666.jsp. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
- ^ "Deep, Soumya Become Junior Champions". All India Chess Federation. http://www.indianchessfed.org/News/12news46.asp. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
- ^ "Tigran Gharamian wins Pierre and Vacances open". Chessdom. http://www.chessdom.com/news-2010/pierre-vacances-open. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- ^ "Indians Sengupta and Das win Hastings". ChessBase.com. 2011-01-06. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6926. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
External links
- Deep Sengupta player profile at ChessGames.com
Categories:- Living people
- Indian chess players
- 1988 births
- Chess International Masters
- Sportspeople from Jharkhand
- Asian chess biography stubs
- Indian sportspeople stubs
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