Aditya Mittal Becomes India’s 77th Chess Grandmaster
9th Dec 2022
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Aditya Mittal Becomes India’s 77th Chess Grandmaster
- Sixteen-year-old Aditya Mittal has become India’s 77th chess Grandmaster during an ongoing tournament in Spain.
- The Mumbai player, who had secured three GM norms, crossed 2,500 ELO points mark during the sixth round of the ongoing Ellobregat Open tournament in Spain. He drew the game against Spain’s No.1 Francisco Vallejo Pons to achieve the feat.
- Aditya Mittal is also the fifth Indian to achieve the GM title in 2022 after Bharath Subramaniyam, Rahul Srivatshav, V Pranav V and Pranav Anand.
- Mumbai got its sole Grandmaster in the year 1997 – Pravin Thipsay. Since then, Mahrashtra has had nine more GMs from various other cities of the state, yet none from the capital. 16-year-long Aditya Mittal became the answer to the perennnial question.
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