Deep Sengupta (born 30 June 1988) is an Indian
chess
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player. He is India's 22nd player to be awarded the title
Grandmaster by
FIDE
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. Sengupta competed in the
FIDE World Cup
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in 2017.
Career
Born in
Chakradharpur
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,
[ Sengupta started chess with the Chakradharpur Chess Academy. He won the ]World Youth Chess Championship
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s in the Under 12 category in 2000.
Sengupta achieved his first norm
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for the title Grandmaster (GM) in the World Junior Chess Championship
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The idea was the brainchild of William Rits ...
in Kochi
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, India in December 2004[GM title application]
(PDF). FIDE. and won the Indian juniors title in 2005.
In April 2009, he won the Doeberl Cup
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, earning his second GM norm.[ In 2010, he tied for the top position with Tigran Gharamian and ]Vadim Malakhatko
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at the 24th Open "Pierre and Vacances" in Cannes
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, thereby completing the requirements for the Grandmaster title.Viacheslav Zakhartsov
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Chess career
In 2007 he tied for 1st–9th with Alexei Fedorov, Vladimir Potkin, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Andrei Deviatkin, Alexander Evdok ...
, Krisztian Szabo, Lev Gutman
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At the beginning of his career, Gutman tied for 11–12th at Riga 1967 (LAT-ch; Jānis Klovāns won), which was the first of m ...
, Dávid Bérczes and Samuel Shankland
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Shankland was California State Champion in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012, and Champion of State Champions in 2009. He won bron ...
in the ZMDI
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Open in Dresden
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. He was placed 4th in the Indian Chess Championship
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2012. Sengupta won the 2014 Commonwealth Chess Championship
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Winners
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History
A championship was planned for New Zealand in 1949, but it was canceled because the British Chess Federation was unable to atte ...
, held in Glasgow
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, edging out Aravindh Chithambaram on tiebreak score. Both players concluded the event with 7½/9 points each. Sengupta won the 2016/2017 Hastings tournament, being a clear winner with 7/9 points. This led to his name being embedded in the Golombek Trophy once again. Sengputa also tied for first at the 2017/2018 Hastings Congress. In 2019 he tied with Jan Gustafsson
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Biography
Gustafsson was born ...
for first in the Bangkok
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Open.
Personal life
Sengupta resides in Kasba. He works for the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
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of India. He has an elder brother, Pratik Sengupta, who plays chess as well.
References
External links
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Deep Sengupta
games at 365Chess.com
team chess record at Olimpbase.org
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1988 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Indian chess players
World Youth Chess Champions
People from West Singhbhum district