Abhimanyu Puranik
Abhimanyu Samir Puranik (Marathi: अभिमन्यु पुराणिक; born 11 February 2000, Mumbai) is an Indian chess grandmaster (GM, 2017).[1] CareerIn 2016 and 2018, Abhimanyu Puranik scored 5.5 points out of 9 in the main tournament of the Isle of Man Open chess festival.[2] In January 2019, he shared 1st-4th place at the IIFL Wealth Mumbai Open international chess tournament with 7 points out of 9 and finished third in the tie-break.[3] Then in July 2019, he took 2nd place in the Bienne chess festival open tournament.[4] In 2018, Abhimanyu Puranik was runner-up at the World Junior Chess Championship.[5] In 2021, with the Indian team, he won the Asian Students Team Championship.[6] In 2021, in Riga Abhimanyu Puranik won the rapid chess tournament at the festival Riga Technical University Open.[7] In October 2019, in Isle of Man Abhimanyu Puranik finished 105th in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament.[8] Abhimanyu Puranik was silver medalist of the Bangladesh Team Championship 2021 with the Shaheen Chess Club, also became the best player on the second board at the tournament, scoring 8 out of 10 possible points.[9] For his success in tournaments, the FIDE awarded Abhimanyu Puranik the title of International Master (IM) in 2015 and International Grandmaster (GM) in 2017.[10] References
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