GMAbhijeet Gupta

Abhijeet Gupta was born in 1989 and attended school in Bhilwara before pursuing professional chess. He became a grandmaster in 2008 and won that year's World Junior Championship in Gaziantep, becoming the third Indian winner after Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna. In 2011 he won both the Dubai Open and India's National Premier Championship. He earned an individual silver medal on fourth board at the 2012 Chess Olympiad. Gupta received India's Arjuna Award in 2013, the year of his first Commonwealth championship victory. He went on to become the first five-time Commonwealth champion. His other tournament victories include the 2014 Agzamov Memorial in Tashkent, the 2015 Hoogeveen Open, the 2016 Reykjavik Open and the 2020 Delhi International Open.