Daily Quiz | On chess progidies
D. Gukesh recently overtook GM Viswanathan Anand to become India’s no. 1.
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Which Indian GM overtook GM Anand for a day by garnering 0.3 ELO more points than the latter on 15th March 2016? The very next day, GM Anand was back as India no. 1.
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In the list of Top 20 chess players among juniors (aged 20 and below), there are currently eight Indians, a pack led by D Gukesh, who is ranked No 2 among world juniors. The seventh Indian in the list is not even a Grandmaster as yet, as a Candidate Master, the player gained 151 (!) ELO points in the last tournament, and a whopping 600 points in the last two months. Name him.
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Currently, five Indian players (Gukesh, Anand, Vidit Gujrathi, R Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Erigaisi) have ELO ratings above the 2700 (the Super GM) mark. Name the two other Indians who also managed to cross the 2700 mark in their careers.
Answer : K. Sasikiran and B. Adhiban
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Name the young chess GM (of Indian origin) who holds the record of becoming a GM at the youngest age, beating the previous mark set by Russian GM Sergei Karjakin. Which country does he represent?
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Before Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa held the mark for being the youngest to become GMs in India, the record was held up by a New Delhi-born chess prodigy who later achieved a peak rating of 2671, before retiring from chess and becoming a computer science researcher. Name him.