Bharath Subramaniyam turns into India’s 73rd chess GM

Fourteen-year previous Bharath Subramaniyam on Sunday grew to become India’s 73rd chess Grandmaster, securing the third and ultimate GM norm at an occasion in Italy.
The Chennai-based participant scored 6.5 factors from 9 rounds together with 4 others to complete seventh general within the occasion held at Cattolica.
He obtained his third GM norm right here and in addition touched the requisite 2,500 (Elo) mark.

Fellow Indian participant M R Lalith Babu emerged winner within the match with seven factors, successful the title on the premise of a greater tie-break rating after he tied with three others together with top-seed Anton Korobov (Ukraine).
Bharath completed with six wins and one draw whereas dropping two video games – in opposition to Korobov and Lalith Babu.
Bharath achieved his first GM norm after securing eleventh place on the Aeroflot Open in Moscow in February 2020. He secured the second norm after putting 4th within the Junior Roundtable Under 21 match in Bulgaria with 6.5 factors in October 2021.

To change into a GM, a participant has to safe three GM norms and cross the stay ranking of two,500 Elo factors.
His coach M Shyam Sundar, a GM himself, congratulated Subramaniyam and tweeted: “Congratulations Bharath for becoming the latest GM of India!! Let’s focus on new goals in this new year!!”

Congratulations Bharath for turning into the newest GM of India!! Let’s deal with new targets on this new yr!!
— Shyam Sundar (@Shyam_chess) January 9, 2022

Subramaniyam had change into an International Master on the age of 11 years and eight months in 2019.
Mitrabha Guha had change into the nation’s 72nd GM in November final, two days after Sankalp Gupta grew to become the 71st GM.