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Arjun Kalyan becomes 68th Indian Grandmaster

April 26 , 2021 1313 days 1101 0
  • Tamil Nadu’s Arjun Kalyan became India’s 68th Chess Grandmaster.
  • He achieved this when he crossed the 2500 ELO mark after beating Dragan Kosic in the fifth round of GM Round Robin “Rujna Zore-3” in Serbia.
  • Arjun is coached by IM Saravanan and Ukrainian GM Aleksandr Goloshchapov.
  • He began playing chess at the age of nine and got his FIDE rating a year later.
  • Viswanathan Anand became the country’s first Grandmaster, in 1988.

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