Ankit Rajpara

{{short description|Indian chess grandmaster}}

{{Use Indian English|date=April 2018}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}

{{Infobox chess biography

| country = India

| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|27 August 1994}}

| birth_place = Gujarat, India

| title = Grandmaster (2014)

| FideID = 5023335

| peakrating = 2511 (June 2014)

}}

Ankit Rajpara (born 27 August 1994) is India's 36th chess Grandmaster and a chess prodigy from Gujarat. He started playing chess at the age of 8 and achieved great successes at National Junior chess tournaments.{{cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/chess/In-Rajpara-Gujarat-gets-its-2nd-grandmaster/articleshow/31378684.cms |title=In Rajpara, Gujarat gets its 2nd grandmaster |newspaper=The Times of India |date=4 March 2014 |accessdate=3 April 2014 |author=Bezbaruah, Ajit |quote=Ankit Rajpara, 20, became the second grandmaster (GM) from Gujarat ... Hailing from Mehsana in north Gujarat, Rajpara}}