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Bharath Subramaniyam, at 14 years of age, becomes India’s 73rd chess Grandmaster

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Fourteen-300 and sixty five days feeble Bharath Subramaniyam on Sunday modified into India’s 73rd chess Grandmaster, securing the third and closing GM norm at an event in Italy.

File portray of Bharath Subramaniyam. (Offer: Twitter)

Chennai: Fourteen-300 and sixty five days feeble Bharath Subramaniyam on Sunday modified into India’s 73rd chess Grandmaster, securing the third and closing GM norm at an event in Italy.

The Chennai-basically basically based player scored 6.5 functions from 9 rounds along with four others to enact seventh overall in the event held at Cattolica.

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India will get its 73rd GM – Bharath Subramaniyam.


Bharath has completed his GM title on the soft 14 years 2 months 23 days. To judge of it, the velocity at which the boy completed this feat in spite of the pandemic is a worth of what’s going to are available in in future! pic.twitter.com/jv7i8qcHSA

— ChessBase India (@ChessbaseIndia) January 9, 2022

He bought his third GM norm right here and also touched the requisite 2,500 (Elo) label.

Fellow Indian player M R Lalith Babu emerged winner in the tournament with seven functions, successful the title on the premise of a greater tie-ruin rating after he tied with three others including high-seed Anton Korobov (Ukraine).

Bharath completed with six wins and one plot while dropping two video games – towards Korobov and Lalith Babu.

Bharath completed his first GM norm after securing 11th divulge on the Aeroflot Initiate in Moscow in February 2020. He secured the 2d norm after inserting 4th in the Junior

Roundtable Below 21 tournament in Bulgaria with 6.5 functions in October 2021.

To became a GM, a player has to actual three GM norms and wicked the are living rating of two,500 Elo functions.

His coach M Shyam Sundar, a GM himself, congratulated Subramaniyam and tweeted: “Congratulations Bharath for turning into the latest GM of India!! Let’s kind out unusual targets in this unusual 300 and sixty five days!!”

Congratulations Bharath for turning into the latest GM of India!! Let’s kind out unusual targets in this unusual 300 and sixty five days!!

— Shyam Sundar (@Shyam_chess) January 9, 2022

Subramaniyam had became an Worldwide Master on the age of 11 years and 8 months in 2019.

Mitrabha Guha had became the nation’s 72nd GM in November closing, two days after Sankalp Gupta modified into the 71st GM. 

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