Dibyendu Barua
Dibyendu Barua (born 27 October 1966) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Indian Chess Champion. He was the second Indian, after Viswanathan Anand, second Bengali after Niaz Murshed, and third South Asian after Niaz and Anand to achieve the title of chess grandmaster.
| Dibyendu Barua | |
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 Barua in 2012 | |
| Full name | Dibyendu Barua |
| Country | India |
| Born | 27 October 1966 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Title | Grandmaster (1991) |
| FIDE rating | 2404 (May 2023) |
| Peak rating | 2561 (July 2003) |
Chess career
Barua is from Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. In 1978, Barua, as a 12-year-old, became the youngest participant in the Indian Chess Championship.[1] In 1982, Barua defeated the then-world number two ranked Viktor Korchnoi in London.[2] He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1991 by FIDE, becoming the second Indian to achieve the title, after Viswanathan Anand. In 1983, he won the Indian Chess Championship for the first time. He has since won it twice more, in 1998 and 2001.
References
- "The Telegraph - Calcutta : Jharkhand". Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- "প্রয়াত কিংবদন্তি দাবাড়ু ভিক্টর করশনয়".