Geetha Narayanan Gopal | |
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Country | India |
Born | 29 March 1989 35) Muvattupuzha, Kerala, India | (age
Title | Grandmaster (2007) |
FIDE rating | 2556 (September 2024) |
Peak rating | 2611 (July 2010) |
Medal record |
G.N. Gopal (born 29 March 1989) is an Indian Chess grandmaster from Cochin, Kerala. Gopal became Kerala's first grandmaster in 2007 at 18 and India's sixteenth grandmaster.
He won the bronze medal in the prestigious 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China in November 2010. He also won the bronze medal in the World Team Championship held in Bursa, Turkey in January 2010.
Gopal was born into a Nair family in Muvattupuzha as the second son of Prof B. Narayana Pillai and Prof Geetha Prakasini. He has an elder brother, Gokul, who is a Computer Engineer.
Gopal started chess at the age of 10. He was initiated into chess by his father. He won his first national championship in Chandigarh in 2001. He became the National Junior Champion (U-20) at the age of 15 in 2004. He won his first international championship in his first international exposure in 2003 in Dubai Juniors, Dubai.
Gopal is working as an Assistant Manager at Bharat Petroleum. He lives in Aluva.
Key achievements
National events
Asian events
Olympiads and World Team 2010
Olympiads: He has represented India in three successive Chess Olympiads namely Dresden 2008,Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 and Istanbul 2012
World Team Chess Championship 2010: His team India won bronze in the prestigious World Team 2010
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