10th Chess Grandmaster (GM) of West Bengal, Top Facts

By Gkbooks 9Jan, 2022

Recenty, Koustav Chatterjee becomes India's 78 Chess Grandmaster (GM).

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And West Bengal got its 10th chess grandmaster in the form of Koustav.

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He got his first GM norm in October 2021 at a Grandmasters’ chess tournament in Bangladesh.

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He got his second GM norm at the Asian championship in the first week of November 2022.

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He crossed 2500 in the August FIDE rating list.

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The 19-year-old drew his game against GM Mitrabha Guha in MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship.

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GM Abhijeet Gupta and Koustav are leading the MPL Chess Championship with a score of 8/10.

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