Gupta, who picked up the sport as a nine-year-old, has achieved the sensational feat at the age of 15 years, 4 months and 10 days. Delhi’s Prithu Gupta has become India’s 64th Grandmaster, crossing the Elo threshold of 2500 points after beating IM Lev Yankelevich in the fifth round of the Portuguese League 2019. His achievement came 31 years after …
Less than six years after taking to chess, Prithu Gupta became India’s 64th Grandmaster on Thursday night. Earlier this month, in the Porticcio Open, Prithu made his third and final GM norm, to go with the ones made in the 2018 Gibraltar Masters and the 2018 Biel Masters. I know, I have a long way to go.” A Class X …
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