Harshit Raja
Indian chess grandmaster (born 2001)
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Raja Harshit in Grenke Chess Open 2019 | |
Country | India |
Born | (2001-04-03) April 3, 2001 (age 23) Pune, Maharashtra, India |
Title | Grandmaster (2022) |
FIDE rating | 2482 (September 2024) |
Peak rating | 2522 (August 2023) |
Harshit Raja (born 2001) is a chess grandmaster from Pune, India. He became India's 69th Grandmaster on 2021, at the age of 20.[1]
Chess career
In 2014, Raja finished 2nd in the National Chess Championship U13 taking place in Jamshedpur, and won the School Games Federation of India's National School Games, taking place in Tamil Nadu.[2] In 2015, he participated in the World Youth Chess Championship finishing 15th.[3] Raja became an International Master in 2017. He received the Shiv Chhatrapati Award in 2019.[4] He met all the requirements for the title of Grandmaster in 2021, becoming India's 69th Grandmaster.[5]
Personal life
As of 2020, Raja has been studying at the Trulaske College of Business of University of Missouri.[6]
References
- ^ "Breaking News: India gets its 69th GM - Harshit Raja - ChessBase India". www.chessbase.in. 4 August 2021. Archived from the original on 30 September 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ "Meet Harshit Raja, India's 69th chess Grandmaster". The Indian Express. 5 August 2021. Archived from the original on 22 September 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - World Youth Ch 2015 - Open under 14". chess-results.com. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "Seven Maharashtra players honoured with the Shiv Chhatrapati award - ChessBase India". www.chessbase.in. 21 February 2019. Archived from the original on 8 June 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "India's 69th GM Harshit Raja keen on striking balance between studies and chess". The Times of India. 4 August 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "IM Harshit Raja secures admission in the University of Missouri - ChessBase India". www.chessbase.in. 24 September 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
External links
- Harshit Raja rating card at FIDE
- Harshit Raja player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Raja Harshit chess games at 365Chess.com
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Indian Grandmasters
Chess players for India with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM)
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- Abhijit Kunte
- Adhiban Baskaran
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- Aditya Samant
- Akshayraj Kore
- Ankit Rajpara
- Anurag Mhamal
- Aravindh Chithambaram
- Arjun Erigaisi
- Arjun Kalyan
- Aryan Chopra
- Ashwin Jayaram
- Bharath Subramaniyam
- Debashis Das
- Deep Sengupta
- Dibyendu Barua
- Diptayan Ghosh
- G. Akash
- Geetha Narayanan Gopal
- Girish A. Koushik
- Gukesh D
- Harika Dronavalli
- Harsha Bharathakoti
- Harshit Raja
- Himanshu Sharma
- J. Deepan Chakkravarthy
- Karthik Venkataraman
- Karthikeyan Murali
- Karthikeyan Pandian
- Koneru Humpy
- Koustav Chatterjee
- Krishnan Sasikiran
- Laxman Rajaram
- Leon Luke Mendonca
- M. R. Lalith Babu
- Magesh Chandran Panchanathan
- Mitrabha Guha
- Neelotpal Das
- Nihal Sarin
- P. Iniyan
- Parimarjan Negi
- Abhimanyu Puranik
- Pentala Harikrishna
- Pranav Anand
- Pranav V
- Pranesh M
- Pravin Thipsay
- Prithu Gupta
- Priyadharshan Kannappan
- Prraneeth Vuppala
- Rahul Srivatshav Peddi
- Raja Rithvik R
- Ramachandran Ramesh
- Raunak Sadhwani
- R Praggnanandhaa
- R Vaishali
- S. L. Narayanan
- S. P. Sethuraman
- Sahaj Grover
- Sandipan Chanda
- Sankalp Gupta
- Saptarshi Roy
- Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury
- Sayantan Das
- Shardul Gagare
- Shyaam Nikhil P.
- Shyam Sundar M.
- Srinath Narayanan
- Sriram Jha
- Stany G.A.
- Subramanian Arun Prasad
- Sundararajan Kidambi
- Surya Shekhar Ganguly
- Swapnil Dhopade
- Swayams Mishra
- Tejas Bakre
- Thejkumar M. S.
- Vaibhav Suri
- Venkatesh M. R.
- Vidit Gujrathi
- Vignesh N. R.
- Visakh N. R.
- Vishnu Prasanna V.
- Viswanathan Anand
- See also: List of chess grandmasters
- List of Indian chess players § Grandmasters
- Chess in India
- Category:Indian chess players