Abhijeet Gupta
{{short description|Indian chess grandmaster (born 1989)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox chess player
|name = Abhijeet Gupta
|image = AbhijeetGupta23a.jpg
|caption = Abhijeet Gupta in 2023
|country = India
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1989|10|16|df=y}}
|birth_place = Bhilwara, India
|death_date =
|death_place =
|title = Grandmaster (2008)
|rating =
|peakrating = 2667 (October 2012)
|peakranking = No. 83 (October 2012)
|FideID = 5010608
}}
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.{{Cite web |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/commonwealth-chess-championship-fantastic-fifth-for-abhijeet-gupta/article28313734.ece |title=Commonwealth chess championship: Fantastic fifth for Abhijeet Gupta |last=Rao |first=Rakesh |date=2019-07-07 |website=The Hindu |language=en-IN |access-date=2019-09-13}} He completed his early education from A's Steward Senior Secondary School, Bhilwara before embarking upon his career as a chess player.
Chess career
He achieved the norms required for the GM title at the Andorra Open 2006, New Delhi (Parswnath) 2007 and Balaguer 2007 tournaments.{{cite web | url=https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=5010608&title=GM&pb=18 | title=Title Applications - Grandmaster (GM) - Abhijeet Gupta | publisher=FIDE | access-date=12 April 2018 }}
On 15 August 2008, he won the World Junior Chess Championship in 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, after Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna. In the same year, he also won the 6th Parsvnath Open in New Delhi.{{cite web|url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic689.html#11|title=TWIC 689: 6th Parsvnath International Open|last=Crowther|first=Mark|date=2008-01-21|publisher=London Chess Center|access-date=28 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930232255/http://chess.co.uk/twic/twic689.html#11|archive-date=30 September 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} In 2011, he came first in the 13th Dubai Open Chess Championship{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7164|title=Indian GM Abhijeet Gupta wins Dubai Open|date=2011-04-20|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=23 April 2011}} and in the Indian National Premier Chess Championship.{{cite news|title=Abhijeet Gupta Claims India Premier Chess Championship Oct 22, 2011|url=http://www.chessdom.com/abhijeet-gupta-claims-india-premier-chess-championship/|publisher=Chessdom|access-date=8 January 2016|date=2011-10-22}} In 2013 Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Championship and the Al Ain Chess Classic tournament.{{cite web|title=Abhijeet Gupta first in Al Ain Chess Classic|url=http://www.chessdom.com/abhijeet-gupta-first-in-al-ain-chess-classic/|publisher=Chessdom|access-date=18 November 2015|date=2013-12-28}} In the same year he received the Arjuna award for his achievements. Gupta took clear first in the 8th Georgy Agzamov Memorial, held in Tashkent in May 2014.{{cite web|title=Abhijeet Gupta clear first in Agzamov Memorial 2014|url=http://www.chessdom.com/abhijeet-gupta-clear-first-in-agzamov-memorial-2014/|publisher=Chessdom|access-date=9 January 2016|date=2014-05-25}} He won the Commonwealth championship again in 2015{{cite web|title=Abhijeet Gupta wins Commonwealth Chess Championship|url=http://www.chessdom.com/abhijeet-gupta-wins-commonwealth-chess-championship/|publisher=Chessdom|access-date=1 November 2015|date=2015-06-30}} and later that year the Hoogeveen Open.{{cite web|last=Silver|first=Albert|title=Experience wins out at Hoogeveen|url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/experience-wins-out-at-hoogeveen|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=1 November 2015|date=2015-10-25}} In 2016, Gupta won the Reykjavik Open{{Cite web|url=http://www.chessdom.com/gm-abhijeet-gupta-storms-through-reykjavik-open-2016/|title=GM Abhijeet Gupta storms through Reykjavik Open 2016|date=17 March 2016 |publisher=Chessdom|access-date=17 March 2016}} and his third Commonwealth championship title in Kalutara, Sri Lanka.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=2016/08/19/sports/90797|title=Gupta and Sachdev overall champions of Commonwealth Open Chess|date=2016-08-19|work=Daily News|access-date=2016-08-31}} In 2020, Gupta won the 8th Delhi international open with a score of 8.5/10.{{Cite web|title=18th Delhi International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament 2020 CAt "A" February 2020 India FIDE Chess Tournament report|url=https://ratings.fide.com/report.phtml?event=221893|access-date=2021-04-05|website=ratings.fide.com}}
Abhijeet Gupta played for the Indian national team in the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey, where he won an individual silver medal thanks to his performance rating of 2746 on board 4.[http://www.olimpbase.org/players/h71jv53f.html Men's Chess Olympiad: Abhijeet Gupta]. OlimpBase
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Category:World Junior Chess Champions
Category:People from Bhilwara district