Deep Sengupta (born 30 June 1988) is an Indian
chess
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player. He is India's 22nd player to be awarded the title
Grandmaster by
FIDE
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. Sengupta competed in the
FIDE World Cup
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in 2017.
Career
Born in
Chakradharpur
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,
[ Sengupta started chess with the Chakradharpur Chess Academy. He won the ]World Youth Chess Championship
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s in the Under 12 category in 2000.
Sengupta achieved his first norm
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for the title Grandmaster (GM) in the World Junior Chess Championship
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The idea was the brainchild of William Ritso ...
in Kochi
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, India in December 2004[GM title application]
(PDF). FIDE. and won the Indian juniors title in 2005.
In April 2009, he won the Doeberl Cup
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, earning his second GM norm.[ In 2010, he tied for the top position with ]Tigran Gharamian
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Chess career
Gharamian played for Armenia in the Children's Chess Olympiads of 1999 a ...
and Vadim Malakhatko
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at the 24th Open "Pierre and Vacances" in Cannes
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, thereby completing the requirements for the Grandmaster title.Maxim Turov
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Turov participated in the 1st Children's Chess Olympiad, held in Linares in 1993, as part of Russia "A" team, which won the ...
, Viacheslav Zakhartsov
Viacheslav Vladimirovich Zakhartsov (; born March 30, 1968, in Omsk) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (2007).
Chess career
In 2007 he tied for 1st–9th with Alexei Fedorov, Vladimir Potkin, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Andrei Deviatkin, Alexander Evdok ...
, Krisztian Szabo, Lev Gutman
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At the beginning of his career, Gutman tied for 11–12th at Riga 1967 (LAT-ch; Jānis Klovāns won), which was the first o ...
, Dávid Bérczes
Dávid Bérczes (born 14 January 1990) is a Hungarian people, Hungarian chess Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 2005 and the Grandmaster title in 2008.
Chess career
He tied for 3rd–6th with Ev ...
and Samuel Shankland
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Shankland was California State Champion in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012, and Champion of State Champions in 2009. He won bronz ...
in the ZMDI
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Open in Dresden
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. He was placed 4th in the Indian Chess Championship
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2012. Sengupta won the 2014 Commonwealth Chess Championship
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Winners
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History
A championship was planned for New Zealand in 1949, but it was canceled because the British Chess Federation was unable to attend ...
, held in Glasgow
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, edging out Aravindh Chithambaram
Aravindh Chithambaram Veerappan (born 11 September 1999) is an Indian chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster. He won the Indian Chess Championship, Indian chess championships twice, in 2018 and 2019.
Personal life
Aravindh was born in Thiruna ...
on tiebreak score. Both players concluded the event with 7½/9 points each. Sengupta won the 2016/2017 Hastings tournament, being a clear winner with 7/9 points. This led to his name being embedded in the Golombek Trophy once again. Sengputa also tied for first at the 2017/2018 Hastings Congress. In 2019 he tied with Jan Gustafsson for first in the Bangkok
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Open.
Personal life
Sengupta resides in Kasba. He works for the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
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of India. He has an elder brother, Pratik Sengupta, who plays chess as well.
References
External links
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Deep Sengupta
games at 365Chess.com
team chess record at Olimpbase.org
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1988 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Indian chess players
World Youth Chess Champions
People from West Singhbhum district