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Home / News / Sports News / Chess: 14-year-old Nihal Sarin has become India's newest Grandmaster
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    Chess: 14-year-old Nihal Sarin has become India's newest Grandmaster

    Sayak Basu
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    Last updated on Aug 15, 2018, 06:12 pm
    Chess: 14-year-old Nihal Sarin has become India's newest Grandmaster
  • Nihal Sarin has become India's 53rd Grandmaster after drawing in the eighth round of the Abu Dhabi masters against Uzbekistan's Temur Kuybokarov.

    Sarin is the third Grandmaster from the state of Kerala after GN Gopal and SL Narayanan.

    This week, we also saw Vaishali R becoming India's youngest woman Grandmaster.

    Here are further details.

  • In this article
    Sarin's three Grandmaster norms Nihal's numerous achievements in chess Vishy congratulates the young gun
  • GM norms

    Sarin's three Grandmaster norms

    Sarin's three Grandmaster norms
  • Sarin received his first and second Grandmaster norms at the TV2 Fagernes and the Reykjavik Open.

    He had drawn against Romanian Grandmaster Constantin Lupulescu in the seventh round of the Abu Dhabi Masters before drawing again in the eighth round.

    Sarin just needs his opponent, Hungarian GM Rapport (Elo rating 2,719) to turn up in the last round to make his GM status official.

  • Achievements

    Nihal's numerous achievements in chess

    Nihal's numerous achievements in chess
  • Sarin, third youngest International Master in the world, has a current Elo Rating of 2,556.

    He won the 2014 Under-10 World Chess Championship and in 2015, lost out on the Under-12 Championship with a narrow margin.

    Nihal secured gold in the Under-10 World Blitz Chess Championship.

    He was the Rapid and Blitz gold medalist in the Asian Youth Championship in Tashkent in 2014.

  • Twitter Post

    Vishy congratulates the young gun

  • Congrats and welcome to @NihalSarin ! The boys are on a roll!

    — Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking) August 15, 2018
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