Aryan Chopra (born 10 December 2001) is an Indian chess prodigy who became a grandmaster (GM) in 2016, at the age of 14 years, 9 months and 3 days. The title was officially awarded by FIDE in 2017. He became the second youngest Indian to become Grandmaster, after Parimarjan Negi.[1][2]
Chopra began playing chess at the age of six after an accident left him temporarily house-bound.[3][4][5]
Before 2020
Chopra achieved his first grandmaster norm at the 2015 Riga Technical University Open where he remained unbeaten.[6][7] He earned his second GM norm at the 35th Zalakaros Open in May 2016 by putting up a strong performance and defeating multiple grandmasters.[8] Chopra earned his third and final GM norm on 29 August 2016 when he defeated GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan of Armenia with black pieces in the final round of the Abu Dhabi Chess Championship Masters Tournament .[9] He was officially awarded the title in March 2017.[10]
He was part of the world team that convincingly beat the US team 30.5-17.5 in the 2017 Match of the Millennials held in St. Louis. He played in the under-17 section and scored 3.5/6 to help the world team win the section 19-13.[11]
Chopra(L) with Amin Bassem at the 2017 Abu Dhabi Masters
Chopra finished third in the 2017 Abu Dhabi Chess Masters tournament, behind winner Amin Bassem and runner-up Nigel Short. He beat multiple grandmasters and gained 22 elo points on his way to scoring 6.5/9 points. He ended the tournament with a notable victory over GM Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia with black pieces.[12][13]
In 2018, he was part of the Indian team that won the IND-CHN Summit match. [14]
2020 - Present
Aryan finished 11th in the Gibraltar Open Chess Tournament in 2020, with a 2709 rating performance.[15]
In 2022, he finished Fagernes with 7 points out of 9, tied for first with Krishnan Sasikiran. He ended up placing 2nd on tie-breakers. [16] He was the runner-up at Menorca Open behind Gukesh and he also placed second at the Serbia Masters with a rating performance of 2730. [17][18]
In 2023, he tied for first at Menorca Open with 7/9 points, but finished 4th on tie-break. [19] He followed that up with a runner-up finish at Biel Masters 2023, behind Bu Xiangzhi.[20]
He finished 5th at Menorca Open 2024, with a rating performance of 2733. He was a part of the Romanian League winning Vados Arad team in 2024, and won the individual gold for his board (board 2) as well.[21] His Vados Arad team also won the Bronze medal in the European Club Cup in 2024. [22]
He finished as a runner-up behind Alexey Sarana in the 2025 Aktobe Open. [23]
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