Hyderabad: Rahul Srivatshav Peddi of Telangana turned India’s 74th Grandmaster, reaching the title after breaking the 2500 (Elo substances) barrier in are residing FIDE rankings throughout the Ninth Cattolica Chess Pageant 2022 in Italy.
The 19-300 and sixty five days-prone reached the 2500 Elo are residing ranking effect after drawing his eighth spherical sport against Grandmaster Levan Pantsulaia within the Cattolica match.
His present Elo ranking is 2468.
Rahul had already secured five GM norms and finished the title when he crossed the ranking threshold of 2500 on Friday.
To became a GM, a player has to stable three GM norms and rotten the are residing ranking of 2500 Elo substances.
“India one more step nearer to getting 100 Grandmasters! Meet our most up-to-the-minute addition to the elite membership, 19-300 and sixty five days-prone Rahul Srivatshav from Telangana, India’s 74th Grandmaster! A large congratulations to Rahul, his coach and family!,” All India Chess Federation president Sanjay Kapoor tweeted on Saturday.
Bharath Subramaniyam had became the nation’s 73rd GM in January. The legendary Viswanathan Anand is India’s first GM, which he turned manner help in 1988. Rahul is coached by Spacious Master Sipke Ernst of The Netherlands.
He turned World master (IM) in January 2018 and got his first GM norm in August 2019 at Greece, 2d GM norm in December 2019 at Serbia and third GM norm in
December 2019 at Italy. He got two GM norms in consecutive tournaments in Serbia and Italy in December 2019. He got his fourth GM norm on the US Masters and the fifth GM norm in Cattolica Italy and crossed the Live Elo ranking of 2500 on June 10, 2022.
Early bird Rahul showed interest in chess with unheard of calculations, most practical memory at an early age of eight and commenced practising in neighborhood classes. Which potential reality, he expert below specialised coaches.
Rahul started taking part in affirm and national level tournaments from 2009 onwards. He justified his talent by being two time champion on the affirm level championship (below-9 and below-11 classes), took 2d affirm within the Telangana affirm speedily initiating and won the Telangana Recount Blitz initiating.
He was a runner up and 2d runner up at national level below-11 and below-9 championships. He represented Telangana affirm within the Below-13 Nationals at Jamshedpur in October 2015 and completed joint 2d.
To this point Rahul has represented India six events – three events at Asian level formative years championship held in Sri Lanka, Iran and Uzbekistan and the World Childhood Chmpionships held in Slovenia, UAE and South Africa. He also represented the Indian crew on the World Childhood Chess Olympiad held in Ahmedabad in 2017. He won the bronze on the Commonwealth Chess 2015 in Original Delhi; one more bronze on the Asian Childhood tournament in 2012 in Sri Lanka; and one more bronze on the Asian Faculties Chess Championship help in 2011.
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