Diptayan Ghosh

Diptayan Ghosh
CountryIndia
Born (1998-08-10) 10 August 1998 (age 26)
Kolkata, India[1]
TitleGrandmaster (2016)
FIDE rating2569 (January 2025)
Peak rating2581 (March 2017)

Diptayan Ghosh (born 10 August 1998) is a chess player from Kolkata, India. He qualified as a grandmaster at the age of 17 after achieving his third and final norm required for the title at the HDBank International Chess Open Tournament in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in March 2016.[2]

Ghosh won the gold medal at the Asian Youth Chess Championships in the Under 10 section in 2008[3] and the Under 12 in 2009.[4] He was a member of the gold medal-winning Indian team in the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad in 2013[5] and 2014.[6]

Biography

He studied at the South Point School and St. Xavier's College.[7][8] Later, he obtained a master's degree from the Delhi School of Economics. He worked at the IDFC First Bank in Mumbai between July 2021 and December 2022, but quit his job in order to pursue chess.[9]

References

  1. ^ IM title application. FIDE.
  2. ^ Priyadarshan Banjan (14 March 2016). "HD Bank 2016: Diptayan pulls it through". ChessBase India. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  3. ^ Akbarinia, Arash (26 July 2008). "Asian Youth Championship – a story told in pictures". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Asian Youth Championships – a clean sweep by India". Chess News. ChessBase. 19 August 2009. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  5. ^ "India Wins World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2013". Chessdom. 30 July 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  6. ^ "India clinch gold in World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad". Firstpost. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Sayantan Das poised to take title". The Hindu. 17 December 2010. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  8. ^ Bhaduri, Archiman (17 March 2018). "Bengal GM Diptayan impresses teammate Viswanathan Anand". The Times of India. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  9. ^ Roy, Angshuman (21 February 2023). "Banker returns to comfort of 64 squares". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
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