Name Deep Sengupta | Role Chess Player | |
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Deep sengupta vs hikaru nakamura spain 2001
Deep Sengupta (born 30 June 1988) is a chess player from Jharkhand, India, who now resides in Kasba. Rated at 2540 Elo, he is India's 22nd grandmaster.
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He started chess with the Chakradharpur Chess Academy, and won the World Youth Chess Championship (boys) in 2000.
He won his first GM norm in the World Junior Chess Championship in Kochi (India) in December 2004 and won the Indian juniors title in 2005.
In April 2009, he won the Doeberl Cup, against a strong field and got his second GM norm. In 2010, he tied for the top position with Tigran Gharamian and Vadim Malakhatko at the 24th Open Pierre and Vacances, thereby completing his Grandmaster Title. He tied for first with Arghyadip Das in the 2010/11 Hastings Masters tournament and won the event on tie-break. In 2011 he tied for 2nd–7th with Maxim Turov, Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Krisztian Szabo, Lev Gutman, David Berczes and Samuel Shankland in the ZMDI Schachfestival in Dresden. He was placed 4th in the Indian Chess Championship 2012. Deep won the 2014 Commonwealth Chess Championship held in Glasgow. He emerged as champion by edging IM Aravindh Chithambaram on tie-break. Both players concluded the event with 7.5/9 points each. He won the Hastings Masters tournament in 2016, being a clear winner with 7/9 points. This led to his name being embedded in the Golombek Trophy once again.
He works for the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India. He has an elder brother named Pratik Sengupta who plays chess as well.