Vidit Santosh Gujrathi

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Vidit Gujrathi
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Vidit at the 2018 Tata Steel tournament
Country India
Born (1994-10-24) 24 October 1994 (age 24) [1]
Nashik, Maharashtra
Title Grandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating 2701 (December 2018)
Peak rating 2723 (February 2018)

Vidit Gujrathi (born 24 October 1994) is an Indian chess Grandmaster. He attained the title of Grandmaster in January 2013, aged 18 years and 3 months. He is the fourth Indian ever who has crossed the rating of 2700 and is rated 2718 as of January 2018. He is currently the third highest rated chess player in India after Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna.

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Chess career

He was born in Nasik on 24 October 1994 to Dr Santosh Gujrathi and Dr Nikta Santhosh Gujrathi. He did his early schooling at Fravashi Academy and was coached in Chess from an early age. In 2006, he finished second in the Asian Youth Championship in the U12 category, thus becoming a FIDE Master. [2]

Gujrathi became an IM when he secured 7 points out of 13 in the Velammal 45th National A Chess Championship in Chennai in 2008. [3] In 2008, he won the World Youth Chess Championship in the Open U14 section, the first Indian to do so. [4] He scored 9 points out of a possible 11, gaining his final norm to become an International Master.

World Youth Chess Championship Wikimedia list article

The World Youth Chess Championship is a chess competition for girls and boys under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve world champions are crowned every year.

He finished 2nd in the U-16 category of the World Youth Chess Championship in the year 2009, tying at 9 points to the eventual winner S.P. Sethuraman, also from India. [5] In the World Junior Chess Championship in Chennai in 2011, held for U20 players, Vidit finished with 8 points out of 11, thus gaining his first GM norm. [6]

World Junior Chess Championship

The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).

In the Nagpur International Open in 2011, Vidit finished with 8 points out of 11, one point behind the eventual winner Ziaur Rahman. He gained his second GM norm in the tournament. [7] Vidit achieved his final GM norm in the eighth round of the Rose Valley Kolkata Open Grandmasters’ chess tournament in 2012, where he finished third. [8]

In 2013, Vidit won a bronze medal in the World Junior Chess Championship in Turkey in the Junior (U-20) category. [9] [10] Vidit finished third in the Hyderabad International Grandmasters chess tournament in 2013, winning Rs 1.5 lakh. [11]

Vidit has been also performing in the top 10 of other tournaments, including the Commonwealth Championship in 2008. Throughout the years, Vidit was also coached by IM Anup Deshmukh, IM Roktim Bandopadhyay and GM Alon Greenfeld of Israel. [12] Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte, who also coached Vidit earlier, said in 2013 that Vidit could reach an ELO rating of 2700 in two-three years. Kunte also considered Vidit's positional sense excellent, comparing him to the Indian chess player P Harikrishna. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "About me section on his website" . Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "Asian Youth championship 2006 U12" . Retrieved 15 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "Velammal 45th National A Chess Championship, 2008" . Retrieved 15 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Manuel Aaron (31 October 2013). "India dominates World Youth championships" . Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  5. ↑ "World Youth Chess Championships 2009 Final Standings". Organiser. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  6. ↑ "World Junior Chess Championship 2011" . Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "Nagpur International Open 2012" . Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  8. ↑ "Four Indians in seven-way lead; Gujrathi is GM". Hindu. 12 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  9. 1 2 "Historic World Junior Chess bronze for Vidit Gujrathi". Times of India. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  10. ↑ "India's Vidit Gujarathi wins bronze at World Junior Chess". First Post. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  11. ↑ "Sethuraman and Varun take titles". Hindu. 4 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  12. ↑ "Winning is a habit for whizkid Vidit". Hindu. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2013.


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