Koustav Chatterjee Explained

Country:	India
Birth Date:	21 July 2003
Birth Place:	Kolkata, India
Grandmaster (2023)^[1]
Peakrating:	2548 (May 2023)
Fideid:	25073060

Koustav Chatterjee is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Career

In October 2021, Koustav scored his first GM-norm at Sheikh Russell GM 2021. He defeated Visakh N. R. and Vignesh N. R., and drew with J. Deepan Chakkravarthy, Michał Krasenkow, Vugar Asadli, and Stany G.A..^[2]

Koustav fulfilled the Grandmaster requirements on December 31, 2022, after drawing against Mitrabha Guha in the MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship.^[3] In the 58th edition of the event a year prior, he had scored upset wins against S. P. Sethuraman and Karthikeyan Murali.^[4]

Personal life

Koustav is studying finance at the University of Texas at Dallas and played on their chess team.^[5] In the 2023 Texas Collegiate Super Finals, he played on board 1 for Team A.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: FIDE Title Application (GM).
2. Web site: Koustav Chatterjee becomes India's 78th Grandmaster. Shahid. Ahmed. January 8, 2023.
3. Web site: Koustav Chatterjee becomes India’s 78th Grandmaster. January 1, 2023.
4. Web site: Senior National Chess Championship: Koustav Chatterjee on song; five share lead after fifth. February 27, 2022. Suhas. Nayse.
5. Web site: David Brodsky triumphs at 89th Annual Southwest Open 2023, Koustav, Rahul and Saksham share second place. Shahid. Ahmed. September 28, 2023.
6. Web site: Chess team comes up short in Collegiate Super Finals. Aafiya. Aslam. October 2, 2023.