Prithu Gupta - the boy who tops in class and scores GM norms with ease!
13/08/2018 - Academics or chess is a question that grapples every talented youngster and his parents. The common answer has been to give education a backseat and focus on chess at least until you reach 10th grade. But here is a boy who is managing both. Well, managing would not be the right word - excelling at both! Meet Prithu Gupta, who has a Live Elo rating of 2460 and two GM norms and in his school almost always scores a CGPA of 10.0/10. How does the boy do it? How did he make his two GM norms by playing just four tournaments in 2018? How has the boy never lost to a 2600 opponent in his chess career till date? We answer all of these questions in this article and much more. Prithu sends us three annotated games as well that gives you a good insight about what's going on in his mind while he gives one fine performance after another.
