Abhijeet Gupta was born in the year 1989 and originally hails from Bhilwara in Rajasthan. He became the India`s youngest International Master at age of 15. The World Chess Federation (FIDE) with official authorization awarded him the title in August 2005. The Limca Book of Records in the year 2002 include Abhijeet`s name after becoming the youngest National junior (under-19) champion at the age of 13 years and 10 days. 14 international medals, including six gold medals from the Asian, Commonwealth and British age-group categories are the medals won by Abhijeet. Recently FIDE rated this noted chess player as 2600. Gupta earned his final GM norm at Balaguer open chess tournament 2007 and thus he is set to become 16th GM of India.

Abhijeet Gupta plays for Bharat Petroleum and won his second successive and third overall national junior chess crown in the year 2007 after finalizing for a quick draw with Vishnu Prasanna in the 11th and final round. After winning the crown Abhijeet said, "It really feels good to have won this championship for the third time but now I would like to train my sight on the world junior championship that starts in a few days time at Armenia". In the year 2008, he won the 6th Parsvnath Open in New Delhi. In the same year on 15th August Gupta won the World Junior Chess Championship at Gaziantep, Turkey. Competing with players like Maxim Rodshtein, David Howell and Hou Yifan, Abhijeet ended up winning this esteemed championship of FIDE Grandmaster title.

His career spans from the year 1999 to 2010 and through out his career he has played 99 games. In this small career he has played with Avari, T Maenhout, O Martirosyan, R Swinkels, Mustapha Ellemdani, A Bachmann, Li Wu, Ngoc Truongson Nguyen, R Shetty, D Fernandez Losada and others.

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