Aditya Samant Becomes India's 83rd Chess Grandmaster

Aditya S Samant, at the mere age of 17 became India's 83rd chess Grandmaster on Wednesday. Samant reached the place of a grandmaster (GM) as he began his ninth-round game against compatriot Aryan Chopra at the BielChess MTO 2023 tournament.

Samant was drawn from his eighth-round game against Bu Xiangzhi and needed to achieve his final GM norm by playing the ninth round, no matter the result.  Samant has already crossed the 2500 Elo mark in the live ratings and had obtained two GM norms, Hence, the third and final norm was all he needed to become India's latest Grandmaster.

Aditya S Samant hails from the state-- Maharashtra. Samant earned his first GM norm at the age of 16 at the ABU Dhabi Masters in August andby December, Samant had already bagged his second GM norm at the 3rd El Llobregat Open.