Sankalp Gupta, India's 71st GM!

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Sankalp Gupta scripted history on 11/07/21 by becoming India's quickest chess Grandmaster,The 18 year old achieved the GM title in a mere 24 days and in 3 successive tournaments. No other GM from India has earned the title in such a short time.

As you might have known you need 3 GM norms and have to cross the 2500 ELO barrier to achieve the GM title.

He went to Serbia on October the 12th, Sankalp's sojourn started with a round-robin tournament on October 15th. In the 11 round event Sankalp cleared his first GM norm on 22nd October and immediately started playing the second tournament where he achieved his second GM norm.

Sankalp started playing his third tournament from October 31st, but his match was halted in the second round. Sankalp remained positive and snatched 3 victories, drew 3 boards and won the final round to emerge on top of the table with 6.5 points and cleared the 3rd GM norm.

Based on the tie break system , he finished second but gave a performance rating of 2605 and earned 19.1 ELO points to take his tally of live international rating to 2504.1 and therefore cleared the last criteria of achieving the GM title.

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