Nineteen-year-old Kolkata-based player, Koustav Chatterjee became India’s 78th player. He’s conjointly the tenth metric weight unit from West Bengal. Koustav earned his 1st GM norm in oct 2021 at a Grandmasters’ chess tournament in BangladeshS. He got his second Gm norm at the India championship within the 1st week of Nov 2022. He crossed FIDE rating 2500 in August. Koustav is within the joint-lead with GM Abhijeet Gupta at the National Senior Chess Championship with a score of 8/10 when 10 rounds.
GrandMaster is that the highest title aside from World Champion awarded to Chess players International Chess Federation FIDE. India’s first Chess player was won by Viswanathan Anand at the age of fourteen in 1988. The primary Gm titles were awarded to twenty seven players in 1950, and also the qualifications to become a metric weight unit have modified throughout the years. FIDE presently awards the title of GM to a player who achieves a 2500 FIDE classical (or ‘standard’) rating and 3 GM norms.
