Diptayan Ghosh (born 10 August 1998) is a

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player from

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, India. He was a student of the South Point High School, Kolkata. He qualified as a grandmaster at the age of 17 after achieving his third and final

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required for the title at the HDBank International Chess Open Tournament in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in March 2016. Ghosh won the gold medal at the

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s in the Under 10 section in 2008 and the Under 12 in 2009. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Indian team in the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad in 2013 and 2014.

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Diptayan Ghosh
team chess record at Olimpbase.org 1998 births Living people Chess grandmasters Indian chess players {{India-chess-bio-stub