Aronyak Ghosh became India's 95th Grandmaster

Aronyak Ghosh scored an unbeaten 7/9 points to score his final GM Norm to become India's 95th Grandmaster. It took Aronyak 2 years to score his final GM Norm. Aronyak is already a player of Grandmaster strength and calibre; it was just a matter of time for him to earn this final norm.

India's 95th Grandmaster: Aronyak Ghosh! | Photo: Kwang Ng / Bangkok Chess Club

Aronyak Ghosh became India's 95th GM when he achieved his 3rd GM norm at the Bangkok Open just a few days ago. He became a GM at the age of 22. He did this with great financial struggle, where his parents put a lot of things at stake, their jewellery, their land and much more! The boy achieved the GM title like a champ!!

In this video, we get to see Aronyak in his typical style - humorous yet thoughtful.

Top 5 finishers (L to R): IM Aronyak Ghosh, GM Brandon Jacobson, IM Dau Khuong Duy, GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly and GM Nigel Short | Photo: Kwang Ng / Bangkok Chess Club

IM Dau Khuong Duy of Vietnam secured the 1st place trophy on tiebreaks | Photo: Kwang Ng / Bangkok Chess Club

Surya Shekhar Ganguly with his second runner-up trophy and his kids | Photo: Kwang Ng / Bangkok Chess Club

Aronyak Ghosh with the 5th place trophy | Photo: Kwang Ng / Bangkok Chess Club

Check out Aronyak's performance

10th place Visakh NR | Photo: Kwang Ng / Bangkok Chess Club

11th Place Ayush Sharma | Photo: Kwang Ng / Bangkok Chess Club

WIM Sakshi Chitlange scored a WGM Norm | Photo: Kwang Ng / Bangkok Chess Club

Abhishek T M scored an IM norm after scoring 6/9 points | Photo: Kwang Ng / Bangkok Chess Club

The combined total participation was 437 in the Masters and Challengers, from 46 countries worldwide | Photo: Kwang Ng / Bangkok Chess Club

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Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Rk.

SNo

 

Name

Typ

sex

FED

Rtg

Pts.

 TB1 

 TB2 

 TB3 

 TB4 

 TB5 

1

11

IM

Dau, Khuong Duy

U18

VIE

2502

7

0

51,5

42

5

39,5

2

2

GM

Jacobson, Brandon

USA

2590

7

0

49,5

41,75

5

36,5

3

5

GM

Ganguly, Surya Shekhar

IND

2561

7

0

49,5

40,25

5

37

4

3

GM

Short, Nigel D

S50

ENG

2587

7

0

49,5

39,25

5

37,5

5

8

IM

Aronyak, Ghosh

IND

2533

7

0

48,5

39,75

5

38

6

1

GM

Van Wely, Loek

S50

NED

2621

7

0

48

39,5

6

36,5

7

6

GM

Stremavicius, Titas

LTU

2556

7

0

46

35,75

5

37

8

7

GM

Gorshtein, Ido

ISR

2549

7

0

45,5

37,25

6

36

9

16

IM

Saydaliev, Saidakbar

UZB

2453

7

0

41,5

35

6

32

10

9

GM

Visakh, N R

IND

2526

6,5

0

49,5

36,75

5

36

11

32

IM

Ayush, Sharma

IND

2415

6,5

0

48,5

36,25

5

34,5

12

20

IM

Pham, Tran Gia Phuc

U18

VIE

2439

6,5

0

47,5

34,25

4

35,5

13

23

IM

Harsh, Suresh

IND

2432

6,5

0

46,5

35

5

34,5

14

37

IM

Arca, Christian Gian Karlo

U18

PHI

2395

6,5

0

45,5

33,5

6

31,5

15

35

IM

Danylenko, Dmytro

UKR

2396

6,5

0

44

33,5

5

32

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