Diptayan Ghosh

{{short description|Indian chess grandmaster (born 1998)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Use Indian English|date=January 2014}}

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|title = Grandmaster (2016)

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Diptayan Ghosh (born 10 August 1998) is a chess player from Kolkata, India. He qualified as a grandmaster at the age of 17 after achieving his third and final norm required for the title at the HDBank International Chess Open Tournament in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in March 2016.{{cite web|url=http://chessbase.in/news/hd-bank-2016/|title=HD Bank 2016: Diptayan pulls it through|author=Priyadarshan Banjan|date=14 March 2016 |publisher=ChessBase India|accessdate=14 March 2016}}

Ghosh won the gold medal at the Asian Youth Chess Championships in the Under 10 section in 2008{{Cite web|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/asian-youth-championship-a-story-told-in-pictures|title=Asian Youth Championship – a story told in pictures|last=Akbarinia|first=Arash|date=2008-07-26|website=Chess News|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=2018-01-08}} and the Under 12 in 2009.{{Cite web|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/asian-youth-championships-a-clean-sweep-by-india|title=Asian Youth Championships – a clean sweep by India|date=2009-08-19|website=Chess News|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=2018-01-08}} He was a member of the gold medal-winning Indian team in the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad in 2013{{Cite web|url=http://www.chessdom.com/india-wins-world-youth-u-16-chess-olympiad-2013/|title=India Wins World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2013|date=2013-07-30|website=Chessdom|access-date=2018-01-08}} and 2014.{{Cite web|url=http://www.firstpost.com/sports/india-clinch-gold-world-youth-16-chess-olympiad-2002283.html|title=India clinch gold in World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad|date=2014-12-22|website=Firstpost|access-date=2018-01-08}}

Biography

He studied at the South Point School and St. Xavier's College.{{Cite news |date=2010-12-17 |title=Sayantan Das poised to take title |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/Sayantan-Das-poised-to-take-title/article15596823.ece |access-date=2023-05-19 |issn=0971-751X}}{{Cite news |last=Bhaduri |first=Archiman |date=2018-03-17 |title=Bengal GM Diptayan impresses teammate Viswanathan Anand |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/chess/bengal-gm-diptayan-impresses-teammate-viswanathan-anand/articleshow/63347436.cms |access-date=2023-05-19 |issn=0971-8257}} Later, he obtained a master's degree from the Delhi School of Economics. He worked at the IDFC First Bank in Mumbai between July 2021 and December 2022, but quit his job in order to pursue chess.{{Cite web |last=Roy |first=Angshuman |date=2023-02-21 |title=Banker returns to comfort of 64 squares |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/banker-returns-to-comfort-of-64-squares/cid/1917860 |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=The Telegraph|location=India |language=en}}

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