Himanshu Sharma (chess player)

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Himanshu Sharma
Country India
Born (1983-09-16) 16 September 1983 (age 41)
Rohtak, India
Title Grandmaster (2017) [1]
Peak rating 2514 (August 2017)

Himanshu Sharma is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Career

In April 2017, he crossed the 2500 rating mark after scoring a win in the fifth round of the 1st Sardar Prakash Singh Memorial. With this, he became India's 47th grandmaster and the first grandmaster from the province of Haryana. [2]

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In July 2017, he won the Barbera Del Valles Open, finishing half a point ahead of runner-up Karen H. Grigoryan. This was his first Open tournament win outside of India [3]

In June 2022, he was one of the bearers of the Chess Olympiad torch. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "FIDE Title Application (GM)" (PDF).
  2. ↑ Shah, Sagar (19 April 2017). "Himanshu Sharma is India's 47th GM and Haryana's first!". chessbase.in.
  3. ↑ Jain, Niklesh (17 July 2017). "GM Himanshu Sharma bags top prize at the Barbera Del Valles Open". chessbase.in.
  4. ↑ Ahmed, Shahid (25 June 2022). "Himanshu Sharma passes the Chess Olympiad Torch to Prithu Gupta". chessbase.in.
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