Abhijeet Gupta (born October 16, 1989) is an Indian
chess player with the title
Grandmaster. He hails from
Bhilwara in
Rajasthan.
He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 2008, having previously become an
International Master in 2005. In 2002, Gupta entered the
Limca Book of Records on becoming the youngest National junior (under-19) champion at the age of 13 years and 10 days. He has won 14 international medals, including six gold medals from the Asian, Commonwealth and British Championship age-group categories.
On August 15, 2008, he won the
World Junior Chess Championship at
Gaziantep,
Turkey, ahead of many other strong players, including
Maxim Rodshtein,
David Howell and
Hou Yifan. He is the third Indian to win this prestigious championship, which carries with it the
FIDE Grandmaster title. He also made GM norms at the
Andorra Open 2006,
New Delhi (Parswnath) 2007 and
Balaguer 2007 tournaments. In 2008, he won the 6th Parsvnath Open in New Delhi. and tied for 2nd-4th with
Tigran L. Petrosian and
Magesh Panchanathan in the 3rd Orissa International GM Open Chess Tournament.
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