Diptayan Ghosh

Diptayan Ghosh (born 10 August 1998) is a chess player from Kolkata, India. He was a student of the South Point High School, Kolkata. 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]

Diptayan Ghosh
CountryIndia
Born (1998-08-10) 10 August 1998
Kolkata, India[1]
TitleGrandmaster (2016)
FIDE rating2541 (February 2021)

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 (26 July 2008). "Asian Youth Championship – a story told in pictures". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  4. "Asian Youth Championships – a clean sweep by India". Chess News. ChessBase. 19 August 2009. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  5. "India Wins World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2013". Chessdom. 30 July 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  6. "India clinch gold in World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad". Firstpost. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2018.


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