Diptayan Ghosh

Diptayan Ghosh
Country India
Born (1998-08-10) 10 August 1998
Kolkata, India[1]
Title Grandmaster (2016)
FIDE rating 2541 (October 2018)

Diptayan Ghosh (born 10 August 1998) is a chess player from Kolkata, India. He qualified as a grandmaster at the age of 17 after achieving his third and final norm required for the title at the HDBank International Chess Open Tournament in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in March 2016.[2]

Ghosh won the gold medal at the Asian Youth Chess Championships in the Under 10 section in 2008[3] and the Under 12 in 2009.[4] He was a member of the gold medal-winning Indian team in the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad in 2013[5] and 2014.[6]

References

  1. ↑ IM title application. FIDE.
  2. ↑ Priyadarshan Banjan. "HD Bank 2016: Diptayan pulls it through". ChessBase India. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Akbarinia, Arash (2008-07-26). "Asian Youth Championship – a story told in pictures". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  4. ↑ "Asian Youth Championships – a clean sweep by India". Chess News. ChessBase. 2009-08-19. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  5. ↑ "India Wins World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2013". Chessdom. 2013-07-30. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  6. ↑ "India clinch gold in World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad". Firstpost. 2014-12-22. Retrieved 2018-01-08.


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