Parimarjan Negi (born 9 February 1993) is an Indian chessgrandmaster. He achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 20 days, which made him the second youngest grandmaster in history at the time. As of September 2023,[update] he is the seventh youngest player to achieve this feat.
Negi is an Indian and Asian champion. He played on the top board for the bronze medal-winning Indian team in the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway.
He was granted the Arjuna Award in 2010 by the Government of India.[1]
Chess career
Parimarjan Negi won the under 10 division at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in 2002 in Tehran.[2][3] He achieved his first grandmaster norm at the 2005/06 Hastings International Chess Congress.[4] Soon after he earned his second GM norm at the 4th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament in Delhi.[5] Negi earned his third and final GM norm on 1 July 2006 by drawing with Russian Grandmaster Ruslan Shcherbakov at the Chelyabinsk Region Superfinal Championship in Satka, Russia, where he finished with six points from nine rounds. Negi thus became the youngest chess grandmaster ever in India, breaking Pentala Harikrishna's record, and the second youngest ever in the world.[6]
Parimarjan Negi attended school at Amity International School in New Delhi. He then graduated from Stanford University as a Mathematics major in 2018. As of July 2021,[update] he is a PhD student at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
References
^Upama Sinha (22 October 2010). "Chess mate". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 December 2013.