New Delhi: Thirteen-year-old Delhi schoolboy Prithu Gupta has bagged his maiden GM
norm recently during the Gibraltar Masters tournament, where he also
became the International Master.
Prithu achieved his norm with
two rounds to spare, which took his ELO Rating above 2400 oints (2450)
necessary for the IM title. Earlier, Prithu had logged first IM norm in
June, 2017 at the Silverlake Open in Serbia and second norm at the
Golden Prague chess festival in July.
Having started playing
chess only four years back, Prithu has had a good record, having drawn
with world No 23, GM Le QuangLiem (rated 2737 from Vietnam) and GM
ItturizagaBonelli Eduardo (rated 2650 from Venezuela). His victims also
include French GM Fabien Libiszewski, and a hat-trick of draws against
GMs Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine), Svane Rasmus (Germany) and Perez Ponsa
Federico (Argentina).
Prithu is an eighth standard student of
Modern School (Vasant Vihar) and the Delhi Chess Association felicitated
him for his recent achievements. All India Chess Federation president
Bharat Singh Chouhan said that the Delhi lad has it in him to make it
big at the international level.
PTI
