Anurag Mhamal

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Anurag Mhamal
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Mhamal in 2017
Personal information
Born (1995-04-28) 28 April 1995 (age 30)
Panaji, India
Chess career
Country India
Title Grandmaster (2017) [1]
FIDE   rating 2474 (October 2025)
Peak rating 2504 (March 2019)

Anurag Mhamal is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Career

Mhamal learned chess from his father Arvind Mhamal and trained under Akash Thakur. [2] [3]

In 2012, Mhamal became the first IM from the state of Goa after achieving his final IM norm at the International Open at Albena in Bulgaria. [2]

Mhamal won gold at the 2013 Asian Junior Blitz Chess Championship in Sharjah, UAE.[ citation needed ]

In October 2014, Mhamal defeated grandmaster Robin van Kampen in an upset in the World Junior Chess Championships. [4]

In July 2016, Mhamal got his final GM norm at Czech Open 2016 Pardubice. [1]

In July 2017, Mhamal crossed the 2500 rating mark after defeating Romeo-Sorin Milu in the fifth round of the XXXVII Benasque International Open in Spain, becoming the first GM from the state of Goa and India's 48th Grandmaster. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 "FIDE Title Application (GM)" (PDF).
  2. 1 2 "Anurag Mhamal becomes Goa's first IM".
  3. ↑ Mokani, Paresh (23 July 2017). "Anurag Mhamal : The unlikely grandmaster".
  4. ↑ "Anurag Mhamal upsets Robin van Kampen in World Junior Chess championship". 13 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Shah, Sagar (11 July 2017). "Breaking news: Anurag Mhamal is India's 48th grandmaster".
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