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Full name
  
Dibyendu Barua

Role
  
Country
  
FIDE rating
  
2449


Title
  
Grandmaster (1991)

Peak rating
  
2561

Name
  
Dibyendu Barua

Awards
  
Arjuna Award for Chess

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Born
  
27 October 1966 (age 57) Kolkata, West Bengal, India (
1966-10-27
)

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Dibyendu Barua (দিব্যেন্দু বড়ুয়া) (born October 27, 1966) is a chess Grandmaster from the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) in the Indian state of West Bengal. He is the second Indian to become a Grandmaster, after Viswanathan Anand. In 1978, Barua, as a 12-year-old, became the youngest participant in the Indian National Championship of chess. In 1982, Barua defeated the then world number two Grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi in London. In 1983, he won the national championship for the first time. Barua was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1991 by FIDE.

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