Serbia: Mitrabha Guha, a Kolkata-based player, has become India’s 72nd Chess Grand Master after achieving his third and final GM norm during a tournament in Serbia. The 20-year-old was promoted to GM after achieving the final norm at the ongoing GM Third Saturday Mix 220 tournament in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Guha, who defeated Serbian GM Nikola Sedlak in the ninth round on Monday, has seven points after six victories, two draws, and a seventh-round loss against Russian GM Vladimir Zakhartsov.
A fortnight ago, the Kolkata player earned his second GM norm in the Sheikh Russel GM event in Bangladesh, and he also broke the 2500 Elo barrier in the tournament’s second round. A player must obtain three GM norms and have a live rating of 2,500 Elo points in order to become a GM.
BREAKING News: Mitrabha Guha becomes India's 72nd Grandmaster
13-days after scoring his second GM-norm, the Kolkata lad scored his final norm&crossed 2500 in GM Third Saturday Mix 220 at Novi Sad. Since 2018 the boy is working on his own
Congratulations to Mitrabha & his family pic.twitter.com/454MVHS70O
— ChessBase India (@ChessbaseIndia) November 9, 2021
The All India Chess Federation congratulated Guha on becoming a GM. “Kolkata-based International Master Mitrabha Guha becomes the 72nd Grandmaster of the country after completing the requirement by securing his third and final GM norm at GM Third Saturday Mix 220 – Novi Sad, Serbia,” the AICF said on its website.
Former world champion and chess legend Viswanathan Anand also congratulated Guha. “Congrats to Mitrabha! Two GMs in two days… 100 th Gm soon!,” he tweeted on Tuesday.
Congrats to Mitrabha! Two Gms in two days… 100 th Gm soon ! https://t.co/GxoMBZZ8PG
— Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking) November 9, 2021
Guha became the country’s 71st GM barely two days after Sankalp Gupta did so during an event in Arandjelovac, Serbia.
