Ankit Rajpara (born 27 August 1994) is India's 36th

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Grandmaster and a

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from

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. He started playing chess at the age of 8 and achieved great successes at National Junior chess tournaments.

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* 1994 births Living people Indian chess players Chess grandmasters {{India-chess-bio-stub