Mitrabha Guha: India's 72nd chess Grandmaster

There is another ball in the court. One more Grandmaster to India's long-running tryst with international chess. Mitrabha Guha has proved himself the 72nd Indian Grandmaster.

In the tournament currently taking place in Novi Sad, he crossed 2500 just 13 days after scoring his second Grandmaster norm. The youngster occupied his Fide Master rating back in 2009. Then he went on to claim the International Master norm in 2019. He currently has a world rank of 770 and is only 20 years old.

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Another distinct record is that he beat Magnus Carlsen twice. He did it just earlier this year in a casual game of Online Chess. It was two quick games in which Mitrabha managed to beat Carlsen to which the World Chess champion replied saying ' Good Game'. Regardless of this result, Mitrabha is on course to be a world champion in the coming years given that he has already achieved so much in such little time.