Sayantan Das | |
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Country | India |
Born | Kolkata, India | 8 April 1997
Title | Grandmaster (2023) |
FIDE rating | 2434 (January 2025) |
Peak rating | 2516 (April 2023) |
Sayantan Das (born 8 April 1997) is an Indian chess grandmaster.
He studied at the Scottish Church Collegiate School in North Kolkata. [1] [2] He later studied commerce at the Scottish Church College between 2014 and 2017. [3] He works at Metro Railway Kolkata. [4] [5]
He who won the World Youth Chess Championship (boys) in 2008 which was held at Vietnam. [6] He is a student at the Goodricke National Chess Academy at Kolkata, which has also produced the present under-10 Asian champion, Diptayan Ghosh.
International Master Saptarshi Roy has coached him. [7]
Sayantan Das on 4 July 2014 won maiden grand master norm. [8]
He crossed the 2500 Elo rating benchmark in 2023, becoming the 81st grandmaster from India. [9]
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