Pravin Mahadeo Thipsay (born 12 August 1959) is an Indian

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player who holds the

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of Grandmaster. He is the first Indian to get a chess Grandmaster

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and the first Indian to win the

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. In 1984, the

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conferred its highest sports award, the

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on him. He won the

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in 1982, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1992, 1993 and 1994 and played for India in the

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s of 1982, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998 and 2002. He was the Joint Silver Medalist in the

in 1986 (London), in 1989(London), in 1991 (London), in 1994 (London), in 1996 (Kolkata, India), while he won the bronze medals in the

in 1999 (Bikaner, India), in 2000 (Sangli, India) and in 2004 (Mumbai, India). He was also the Individual Gold Medalist in Asian Teams Chess Championships in 1983 (New Delhi, India) and in 2003 (Jodhpur, India) In 1985, Thipsay tied for first with Kevin Spraggett in the

. In 1998, he tied for 4-7th with

Sergey Zagrebelny Sergey Zagrebelny (russian: Сергей Загребельный; born April 9, 1965) is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster (1993). In 1988 and 1990 he won the Uzbekistani Chess Championship. In 1992, as a member of the Uzbekistan national te ...

, Mohamad Al-Modiahki and Amanmurad Kakageldyev in the

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in Tehran, in 2004 tied for 2nd–6th behind Marat Dzhumaev in Pune and in the same year tied for 2nd–3rd with Saidali Iuldachev and

Chakkravarthy Deepan J. Deepan Chakkravarthy (born 3 June 1987) is an Indian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Born in Madurai, Deepan Chakkravarthy won the Asian Junior Chess Championship in 2002. In the 2004 edition he fini ...

in Lucknow. In 2007, he won the FIDE Rated All India Open Chess Tournament in Mangalore. According to

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, at his peak in August 1981 Thipsay's play was equivalent to a rating of 2571, and he was ranked number 141 in the world. His best single performance was at Brighton (BCF Championship) 1984, where he scored 6,5 of 10 possible points (65%) against 2549-rated opposition, for a

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of 2623. In the January 2009

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list, he has an

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of 2469, making him India's number 24. In 1997 he became the third Indian to attain the Grandmaster title after Anand and

Dibyendu Barua Dibyendu Barua (born 27 October 1966) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Indian Chess Champion. He was the second Indian, after Viswanathan Anand, second Bengali after Niaz Murshed, and third South Asian after Niaz and Anand t ...

He used to play on FIDE online arena with the username "Thipsay" and on ChessCube with the username "Hyunthi". Pravin Thipsay is married to

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Bhagyashree Sathe Thipsay.

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