Neelotpal That

Neelotpal Das, Martigny 2011
Association	India
Born	April 20, 1982 Kolkata , India
title	International Master (1999) Grand Master (2006)
Current  Elo rating	2425 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2514 (April 2006, April 2009)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Neelotpal Das (born April 20, 1982 in Kolkata ) is an Indian chess grandmaster . He lives in West Bengal .

Luke McShane and Sarkhar Kuliev, as well as Neelotpal Das and Alexander Grishchuk, Youth World Championship 1992 in Duisburg

In 1992 in Duisburg , Neelotpal Das played at the World Youth Championship for under 10-year-olds, which Luke McShane won ahead of Alexander Grishchuk .

Neelotpal Das won the Indian championship for under 12s and under 25s.

In 1999 he became International Master .

In the national B championship he reached 2nd place and later took part in the co-world championship in Tripoli .

In 2006 he was appointed grandmaster, he met the required standards between July 2005 and April 2006 at three tournaments in Spain .

For India he played at the Asian Team Championships in 2003 (in the third team, with which he reached third place) and in 2008 (in the second team).

Game example

The following game against Nigel Short is famous according to Das.

Nigel Short - Neelopal Das, United Insurance 4th, Dhaka 1999, round 8

1. e2 – e4 e7 – e6 2. d2 – d4 d7 – d5 3. Nb1 – c3 Bf8 – b4 4. e4 – e5 c7 – c5 5. a2 – a3 Bb4xc3 + 6. b2xc3 Ng8 – e7 7. Qd1 – g4 Qd8 -C7 8. Qg4xg7 Rh8-g8 9. Qg7xh7 c5xd4 10. Ke1-d1 d4xc3 11. Ng1-f3 Nb8-c6 12. Nf3-g5 Sc6-d8 13. f2-f4 Bc8-d7 14. h2-h4 Qc7-c5 15. h4 – h5 Bd7 – b5 16. Bf1xb5 Qc5xb5 17. h5 – h6 Rg8 – g6 18. f4 – f5 Ne7xf5 19. Qh7 – h8 + Ke8 – d7 20. h6 – h7 Rg6 – h6 21. Rh1 – e1 Rh6 – h2 22. Ng5xe6 Nd8xe6 23. Qh8xa8 Rh2xg2 24. Ra1 – a2 Nf5 – e3 + 25. Bc1xe3 Qb5 – b1 + 26. Be3 – c1 Rg2 – d2 mate

Web links

Commons : Neelotpal Das  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report on telegraphindia.com
2. ↑ JugendSchach , August '92 edition, p. 4 to 30 (reports, games and photos)
3. ↑ World Cup results on schachtrainer.de ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Interview on cpai.in ( Memento from February 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
5. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
6. ↑ Neelotpal Das' Results at Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Game on chessgames.com (English)