Deep Sengupta

Deep Sengupta (born 30 June 1988) is an Indian chess player. He is India's 22nd player to be awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE.[1] Sengupta competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2017.

Deep Sengupta
Deep Sengupta (2014)
CountryIndia
Born (1988-06-30) 30 June 1988
Chakradharpur, Jharkhand, India
TitleGrandmaster (2010)
FIDE rating2527 (February 2021)
Peak rating2596 (July 2017)

Career

Born in Chakradharpur,[2] Sengupta started chess with the Chakradharpur Chess Academy.[3] He won the World Youth Chess Championships in the Under 12 category in 2000.[4]

Sengupta achieved his first norm for the title Grandmaster (GM) in the World Junior Chess Championship in Kochi, India in December 2004[2] and won the Indian juniors title in 2005.[5]

In April 2009, he won the Doeberl Cup, earning his second GM norm.[2] In 2010, he tied for the top position with Tigran Gharamian and Vadim Malakhatko at the 24th Open "Pierre and Vacances"[6] in Cannes,[7] thereby completing the requirements for the Grandmaster title.[2] He tied for first with Arghyadip Das in the 2010/11 Hastings Masters tournament and won the event on tiebreak.[8] In 2011 he tied for 2nd–7th with Maxim Turov, Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Krisztian Szabo, Lev Gutman, David Berczes and Samuel Shankland in the ZMDI Open in Dresden.[9] He was placed 4th in the Indian Chess Championship 2012. Sengupta won the 2014 Commonwealth Chess Championship, held in Glasgow, edging out Aravindh Chithambaram on tiebreak score. Both players concluded the event with 7½/9 points each.[10] Sengupta won the 2016/2017 Hastings tournament, being a clear winner with 7/9 points. This led to his name being embedded in the Golombek Trophy once again.[11] Sengputa also tied for first at the 2017/2018 Hastings Congress.[12] In 2019 he tied with Jan Gustafsson for first in the Bangkok Open.[13][14]

Personal life

Sengupta resides in Kasba. He works for the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India. He has an elder brother, Pratik Sengupta, who plays chess as well.

References
  1. "Deep likely to be awarded with the GM title". The Times Of India. 9 March 2010.
  2. GM title application (PDF). FIDE.
  3. Jayesh Thaker (9 March 2010). "Finally, a Grandmaster from home - 22-year-old Deep Sengupta clinches coveted chess title at Cannes". The Telegraph. Kolkata. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  4. Crowther, Mark (30 October 2000). "TWIC 312: World Youth Championships Oropesa del Mar". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  5. "Deep, Soumya Become Junior Champions". All India Chess Federation. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  6. "Tigran Gharamian wins Pierre and Vacances open". Chessdom. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
  7. "FIDE Original Tournament Report. 24e Open International "Pierre et Vacances" - A". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  8. "Indians Sengupta and Das win Hastings". ChessBase.com. 6 January 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
  9. "The Week in Chess 875: 20th ZMDI Open". London Chess Centre. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  10. "GM Sengupta Deep claims Commonwealth Chess Championship 2014". Chessdom. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  11. "Deep Sengupta victorious in Hastings". ChessBase. 7 January 2017.
  12. "Hastings: the incredible rally of Deep Sengupta". Chess News. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  13. McGourty, Colin (15 April 2019). "Jan wins his 2nd Bangkok Chess Club Open". Chess24.com. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  14. "Gustafsson bags Bangkok Open". Chess News. ChessBase. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
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