Parimarjan Negi (born 9 February 1993) is an Indian
chess grandmaster. He achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 20 days, which made him the
second youngest grandmaster in history at the time. As of July 2021, he is the seventh youngest player to achieve this feat.
Negi is an Indian and Asian champion. He played on the top board for the bronze medal-winning Indian team in the
2014 Chess Olympiad
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in
Tromsø, Norway.
He was granted the
Arjuna Award
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in 2010 by the Government of India.
Chess career
Parimarjan Negi won the under 10 division at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in 2002 in
Tehran. He achieved his first grandmaster
norm at the 2005/06
Hastings International Chess Congress. Soon after he earned his second GM norm at the 4th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament in Delhi. Negi earned his third and final GM norm on 1 July 2006 by drawing with Russian Grandmaster
Ruslan Sherbakov at the
Chelyabinsk Region Superfinal Championship in
Satka
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Russia, where he finished with six points from nine rounds. Negi thus became the youngest chess grandmaster ever in India, breaking
Pentala Harikrishna's record, and the second youngest ever in the world.
Negi won the strong
Philadelphia International Open Tournament in June 2008 with a score of 7/9, and was undefeated. In August 2008, he finished second, behind
Abhijeet Gupta, at the
World Junior Chess Championship in
Gaziantep. In 2009 he won the
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History
Organized by the Copenhagen Chess Federation (KSU), it was originally set up to giv ...
in
Copenhagen with 8.5/10, on tiebreaks over
Boris Avrukh, and the 6th IGB
Dato' Arthur Tan
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Tan was reportedly one of the richest men in Malaysia and had several compan ...
Malaysia Open in
Kuala Lumpur.
Parimarjan Negi won the 48th
National Premier Chess Championship on 22 December 2010 in New Delhi.
In 2012 Negi has won the 11th
Asian Chess Championship held in
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. He tied for first place in the
Cappelle-la-Grande Open in 2012 and 2013. In 2013, he also won the Politiken Cup for the second time.
By 2017 he was retired from chess.
Why did Parimarjan Negi quit chess?
Chessbase India, 11/08/2017
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Personal life
Parimarjan Negi attended school at Amity International School
Amity International Schools is a 5-Pvt. Unaided (Recognized) 3-Co-educational are schools located in New Delhi, India, National Capital Region (NCR Delhi), and Lucknow. These schools are affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (C ...
in New Delhi. He then graduated from Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
as a Mathematics major in 2018. As of July 2021, he is a PhD student at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Chessdom - Parimarjan Negi wins Delhi State blitz
1993 births
Living people
Garhwali people
Chess grandmasters
Indian chess players
Chess writers
Recipients of the Arjuna Award
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