NAGPUR: On Sunday, the third city Master (IM) Sankalp Gupta India scripted history by becoming the fastest and 71st chess Grandmaster (GM) in Serbia.
V Anand started it all in 1987.
The 18-year-old won the title of GM in only 24 days and in three consecutive tournaments.
No other GM of India has received a degree in a short time.
He is now second and 10 Maharashtra Nagpur GM.
To achieve the GM title the player needed to achieve the three norms and crossed the life rating of 2500 Elo points.
Off to Serbia on October 12, live Sankalp begins with a tournament round-robin on October 15.
In the event the 11-round, International Master (IM) cleared norm GM first on October 22 and soon began playing the second tournament in which he reached the norm second.
With a satisfactory event in back-to-back tournaments, the 2446 Elo Sankalp gained 17.3 and 21.8 points each to take his tally of international life for 2485 on October 30 Sankalp started playing third tournament from October 31, but the march her halted in the second round.
Sankalp remain positive and snatched three wins on the trot, drawing three and winning the final round board to appear on the table with 6.5 points and third GM norm cleaned.
Under the tie-break system, he finished second but gave a rating performance of 2605 Elo and gained 19.1 points to take his tally of international life to 2504.1 and clear criteria became the fourth and final GM.
Sharing happiness, Sankalp told TOI that he knew became GM in three tournaments is possible.
“And in fact, do it tasted great.
After losing in the second round I was very angry.
At the same time, I was motivated to bounce back and pick up only one game at a time,” he said.
Since the start of his stay Serbia on October 15, Sankalp became GM on Sunday and scripted achieved a rare record in just 24 days.
Of the 70 GM in this country there are other Indian masters who have held a degree in a short time.
On June 19, 2019 when Sankalp into IM, he took a total of 895 days since the first norm clearing on January 5, 2017.
Sankalp coaches and GM’s first Vidarbha, Swapnil Dhopade, very happy with the achievement.
“Sankalp deserve the title of GM for a long time.
He has the power.
The math is like a GM.
During training camp recently, he was sad about not having a single GM norm and its rating by lowering of 2500.
I told him that it is possible to scored a GM norm and cross 2500 in the three tournaments back-to-back, “he said.
Explains how difficult it is for Sankalp to prepare for a pandemic, Dhopade said he has worked hard enough.
“It was difficult to maintain the same level of motivation and keep practicing though no tournaments going around.
But he was determined, and the hard work paid off.
We never know how close we are to achieve our dreams that we must never stop trying.
Story Sankalp is a great example of this, “said Dhopade.
Sankalp is excited to achieve the feat on the anniversary of his father Sandeep Gupta.
He thanked the mother Suman, former and current, including Nayandeep Kotangle his coach, Gurpreet Maras, Swayams Mishra, Swapnil Dhopade and all those who guide him in his journey.