Hyderabad: Rahul Srivatshav Peddi of Telangana change into India’s 74th Grandmaster, attaining the title after breaking the 2500 (Elo facets) barrier in stay FIDE rankings at some stage in the 9th Cattolica Chess Competition 2022 in Italy.
The 19-yr-faded reached the 2500 Elo stay rating mark after drawing his eighth spherical recreation in opposition to Grandmaster Levan Pantsulaia in the Cattolica event.
His fresh Elo rating is 2468.
Rahul had already secured 5 GM norms and carried out the title when he crossed the rating threshold of 2500 on Friday.
To alter into a GM, a participant has to receive three GM norms and incorrect the stay rating of 2500 Elo facets.
“India yet every other step nearer to getting 100 Grandmasters! Meet our most modern addition to the elite membership, 19-yr-faded Rahul Srivatshav from Telangana, India’s 74th Grandmaster! A noteworthy congratulations to Rahul, his coach and family!,” All India Chess Federation president Sanjay Kapoor tweeted on Saturday.
Bharath Subramaniyam had change into the country’s 73rd GM in January. The legendary Viswanathan Anand is India’s first GM, which he change into intention abet in 1988. Rahul is coached by Mountainous Grasp Sipke Ernst of The Netherlands.
He change into International grasp (IM) in January 2018 and obtained his first GM norm in August 2019 at Greece, second GM norm in December 2019 at Serbia and third GM norm in
December 2019 at Italy. He obtained two GM norms in consecutive tournaments in Serbia and Italy in December 2019. He obtained his fourth GM norm at the US Masters and the fifth GM norm in Cattolica Italy and crossed the Are living Elo rating of 2500 on June 10, 2022.
Early bird Rahul showed curiosity in chess with amazing calculations, perfect memory at an early age of eight and started working in the direction of in crew courses. Subsequently, he trained under specialised coaches.
Rahul started participating in issue and nationwide degree tournaments from 2009 onwards. He justified his talent by being two time champion at the issue degree championship (under-9 and under-11 courses), took second feature in the Telangana issue immediate open and gained the Telangana Verbalize Blitz open.
He change into a runner up and second runner up at nationwide degree under-11 and under-9 championships. He represented Telangana issue in the Below-13 Nationals at Jamshedpur in October 2015 and carried out joint second.
So far Rahul has represented India six events – three events at Asian degree early life championship held in Sri Lanka, Iran and Uzbekistan and the World Formative years Chmpionships held in Slovenia, UAE and South Africa. He additionally represented the Indian workforce at the World Formative years Chess Olympiad held in Ahmedabad in 2017. He gained the bronze at the Commonwealth Chess 2015 in Contemporary Delhi; every other bronze at the Asian Formative years event in 2012 in Sri Lanka; and yet every other bronze at the Asian Colleges Chess Championship abet in 2011.
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