Diptayan Ghosh (born 10 August 1998) is a

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player from Kolkata, India. He qualified as a grandmaster at the age of 17 after achieving his third and final

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required for the title at the HDBank International Chess Open Tournament in

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, Vietnam in March 2016. Ghosh won the gold medal at the Asian Youth Chess Championships in the Under 10 section in 2008 and the Under 12 in 2009. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Indian team in the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad in 2013 and 2014.

Biography

He studied at the

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and St. Xavier's College. Later, he obtained a master's degree from the

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. He worked at the

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in Mumbai between July 2021 and December 2022, but quit his job in order to pursue chess.

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Diptayan Ghosh
team chess record at Olimpbase.org 1998 births Living people Chess Grandmasters Indian chess players St. Xavier's College, Kolkata alumni Delhi School of Economics alumni Sportspeople from Kolkata {{India-chess-bio-stub