Koustav Chatterjee

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Koustav Chatterjee
Personal information
Born (2003-07-21) 21 July 2003 (age 22)
Kolkata, India
Chess career
Country India
Title Grandmaster (2023) [1]
FIDE   rating 2488 (January 2026)
Peak rating 2548 (May 2023)

Koustav Chatterjee is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Career

In October 2021, Koustav scored his first GM-norm at Sheikh Russell GM 2021. He defeated Visakh N. R. and Vignesh N. R., and drew with J. Deepan Chakkravarthy, Michał Krasenkow, Vugar Asadli, and Stany G.A.. [2]

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Koustav fulfilled the Grandmaster requirements on 31 December 2022, after drawing against Mitrabha Guha in the MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship. [3] In the 58th edition of the event a year prior, he had scored upset wins against S. P. Sethuraman and Karthikeyan Murali. [4]

Personal life

Koustav is studying finance at the University of Texas at Dallas and played on their chess team. [5] In the 2023 Texas Collegiate Super Finals, he played on board 1 for Team A. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "FIDE Title Application (GM)" (PDF).
  2. ↑ Ahmed, Shahid (8 January 2023). "Koustav Chatterjee becomes India's 78th Grandmaster".
  3. ↑ "Koustav Chatterjee becomes India's 78th Grandmaster". The Indian Express. 1 January 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  4. ↑ Nayse, Suhas (27 February 2022). "Senior National Chess Championship: Koustav Chatterjee on song; five share lead after fifth".
  5. ↑ Ahmed, Shahid (28 September 2023). "David Brodsky triumphs at 89th Annual Southwest Open 2023, Koustav, Rahul and Saksham share second place".
  6. ↑ Aslam, Aafiya (2 October 2023). "Chess team comes up short in Collegiate Super Finals".
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