Abhijeet Gupta (born 16 October 1989) is an Indian chess player with the title of Grandmaster (GM). Gupta is the first player to win the Commonwealth Chess Championship five times. He has completed his early education from A's Steward Senior Secondary School, Bhilwara and then embarked-upon his career of being chess player.

Chess career

He achieved the norms required for the GM title at the

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Open 2006,

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(Parswnath) 2007 and

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2007 tournaments. On 15 August 2008, he won the

World Junior Chess Championship The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). The idea was the brainchild of William Rits ...

in Gaziantep, Turkey, ahead of many other strong players, including Maxim Rodshtein, David Howell and

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. He is the third Indian to win this prestigious championship, after

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and

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. In the same year, he also won the 6th Parsvnath Open in

. In 2011, he came first in the 13th Dubai Open Chess Championship and in the Indian National Premier Chess Championship. In 2013 Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Championship and the Al Ain Chess Classic tournament. In the same year he received the Arjuna award for his achievements. Gupta took clear first in the 8th Georgy Agzamov Memorial, held in

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in May 2014. He won the Commonwealth championship again in 2015 and later that year the Hoogeveen Open. In 2016, Gupta won the Reykjavik Open and his third Commonwealth championship title in

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, Sri Lanka. In 2020, Gupta won the 8th Delhi international open with a score of 8.5/10. Abhijeet Gupta played for the Indian national team in the

2012 Chess Olympiad The 40th Chess Olympiad ( tr, 40. Satranç Olimpiyatı), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place in Istan ...

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, Turkey, where he won an individual silver medal thanks to his rating performance of 2746 on board 4.Men's Chess Olympiad: Abhijeet Gupta
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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gupta, Abhijeet 1989 births Living people Chess grandmasters World Junior Chess Champions Indian chess players People from Bhilwara district Rajasthani people Recipients of the Arjuna Award