Bhupendra Niraula

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Bhupendra Niraula (born 1981 ) is a Nepalese chess player . He has held the title of FIDE Instructor since 2014 and the FIDE title of Candidate Masters (CM) since 2015 .

He received the CM title at a zone tournament in 2015. Niraula won the 19th national individual championship organized by the Nepalese Chess Federation in 2016 with 7.0 out of 9 points. At the 2016 Chess Olympiad in Baku, he represented his country for the first time at the most important team chess tournament.

His Elo rating is 1994 (as of January 2018), which puts him in twelfth place in the Nepalese Elo ranking. His highest rating was 2071 in June 2016.

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Individual evidence

  1. FIDE: 19th National Chess Championship - Nepal - Results
  2. FIDE: Ranking list of chess players of the Nepalese Chess Federation