Question: Who became India’s 68th Chess Grandmaster after beating Dragan Kosic in the fifth round of GM Round Robin Rujna Zore-3 in Serbia?
(a) Arjun Kalyan
(b) Leon Mendonca
(c) Akash Ganesan
(d) Raunak Sadhwani
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- Tamil Nadu’s, Arjun Kalyan became India’s 68th Chess Grandmaster when he crossed the 2500 ELO mark after beating Dragan Kosic in the fifth round of GM Round Robin “Rujna Zore-3” in Serbia.
- Arjun is coached by IM Saravanan and Ukrainian GM Aleksandr Goloshchapov and began playing chess at the age of nine and got his FIDE rating a year later.
- Viswanathan Anand is the first Grandmaster of India having achieved the feat in 1988.
By-Amar Mani Upadhyay