Koustav Chatterjee
Indian chess grandmaster (born 2003)
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Koustav Chatterjee is an Indian chess grandmaster.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 July 2003 Kolkata, India |
| Chess career | |
| Country | India |
| Title | Grandmaster (2023)[1] |
| FIDE rating | 2484 (March 2026) |
| Peak rating | 2548 (May 2023) |
Career
In October 2021, Koustav scored his first GM-norm at Sheikh Russell GM 2021. He defeated Visakh N. R. and Vignesh N. R., and drew with J. Deepan Chakkravarthy, Michał Krasenkow, Vugar Asadli, and Stany G.A..[2]
Koustav fulfilled the Grandmaster requirements on 31 December 2022, after drawing against Mitrabha Guha in the MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship.[3] In the 58th edition of the event a year prior, he had scored upset wins against S. P. Sethuraman and Karthikeyan Murali.[4]
Personal life
Koustav is studying finance at the University of Texas at Dallas and played on their chess team.[5] In the 2023 Texas Collegiate Super Finals, he played on board 1 for Team A.[6]