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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
Full name	Dibyendu Barua
Country	India
Born	(1966-10-27) 27 October 1966 (age 55) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Title	Grandmaster (1991)
FIDE rating	2404 (October 2022)
Peak rating	2561 (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.

References

External links

• Dibyendu Barua player profile and games at Chessgames.com

На других языках

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- [en] Dibyendu Barua

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[ru] Баруа, Дибьенду

Дибьенду Баруа (бенг. দিব্যেন্দু বড়ুয়া; 27 октября 1966, Калькутта) — индийский шахматист, гроссмейстер (1991).

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