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
Barua in 2012
CountryIndia
Born (1966-10-27) 27 October 1966
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
TitleGrandmaster (1991)
FIDE rating2404 (October 2023)
Peak rating2561 (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. He also won gold medal at the Chess Olympiad in 1990.[3]

References
  1. "The Telegraph - Calcutta : Jharkhand". Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  2. "প্রয়াত কিংবদন্তি দাবাড়ু ভিক্টর করশনয়".
  3. "Chronology of Important Sports Events — West Bengal". wbsportsandyouth.gov.in. Kolkata: Government of West Bengal – Department of youth services and sports. 2017. Archived from the original on 13 October 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
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