Anurag Mhamal
Indian chess grandmaster (born 1995)
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Country | India |
Born | (1995-04-28) April 28, 1995 (age 29) Panaji, India |
Title | Grandmaster (2017)[1] |
FIDE rating | 2499 (August 2024) |
Peak rating | 2504 (March 2019) |
Anurag Mhamal is an Indian chess grandmaster.
Career
Mhamal learned chess from his father Arvind Mhamal and trained under R. B. Ramesh and Akash Thakur.[2][3]
In 2012, Mhamal became the first IM from the state of Goa after achieving his final IM norm at the International Open at Albena in Bulgaria.[2]
In October 2014, Mhamal defeated Robin van Kampen in an upset in the World Junior Chess Championships.[4]
In June 2017, Mhamal got his final GM norm at the XXVII Open Internacional de Gros 2017.[1]
In July 2017, Mhamal crossed the 2500 rating mark after defeating Romeo-Sorin Milu in the fifth round of the XXXVII Benasque International Open in Spain, becoming the first GM from the state of Goa.[5]
References
- ^ a b "FIDE Title Application (GM)" (PDF).
- ^ a b "Anurag Mhamal becomes Goa's first IM".
- ^ Mokani, Paresh (July 23, 2017). "Anurag Mhamal : The unlikely grandmaster".
- ^ "Anurag Mhamal upsets Robin van Kampen in World Junior Chess championship". October 13, 2014.
- ^ Shah, Sagar (July 11, 2017). "Breaking news: Anurag Mhamal is India's 48th grandmaster".
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Indian Grandmasters
Chess players for India with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM)
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- Abhijit Kunte
- Adhiban Baskaran
- Aditya Mittal
- Aditya Samant
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- Ankit Rajpara
- Anurag Mhamal
- Aravindh Chithambaram
- Arjun Erigaisi
- Arjun Kalyan
- Aryan Chopra
- Ashwin Jayaram
- Bharath Subramaniyam
- Debashis Das
- Deep Sengupta
- Dibyendu Barua
- Diptayan Ghosh
- G. Akash
- Geetha Narayanan Gopal
- Girish A. Koushik
- Gukesh D
- Harika Dronavalli
- Harsha Bharathakoti
- Harshit Raja
- Himanshu Sharma
- J. Deepan Chakkravarthy
- Karthik Venkataraman
- Karthikeyan Murali
- Karthikeyan Pandian
- Koneru Humpy
- Koustav Chatterjee
- Krishnan Sasikiran
- Laxman Rajaram
- Leon Luke Mendonca
- M. R. Lalith Babu
- Magesh Chandran Panchanathan
- Mitrabha Guha
- Neelotpal Das
- Nihal Sarin
- P. Iniyan
- Parimarjan Negi
- Abhimanyu Puranik
- Pentala Harikrishna
- Pranav Anand
- Pranav V
- Pranesh M
- Pravin Thipsay
- Prithu Gupta
- Priyadharshan Kannappan
- Prraneeth Vuppala
- Rahul Srivatshav Peddi
- Raja Rithvik R
- Ramachandran Ramesh
- Raunak Sadhwani
- R Praggnanandhaa
- R Vaishali
- S. L. Narayanan
- S. P. Sethuraman
- Sahaj Grover
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- Sankalp Gupta
- Saptarshi Roy
- Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury
- Sayantan Das
- Shardul Gagare
- Shyaam Nikhil P
- Shyam Sundar M.
- Srinath Narayanan
- Sriram Jha
- Stany G.A.
- Subramanian Arun Prasad
- Sundararajan Kidambi
- Surya Shekhar Ganguly
- Swapnil Dhopade
- Swayams Mishra
- Tejas Bakre
- Thejkumar M. S.
- Vaibhav Suri
- Venkatesh M. R.
- Vidit Gujrathi
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- Visakh N. R.
- Vishnu Prasanna V.
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- See also: List of chess grandmasters
- List of Indian chess players § Grandmasters
- Chess in India
- Category:Indian chess players