Santosh Gujrathi Vidit

Vidit at the Tata Steel Tournament 2018
Surname	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
Association	India
Born	October 24, 1994 Indore , India
title	International Master (2009) Grand Master (2013)
Current  Elo rating	2726 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating	2726 (March 2020)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Santosh Vidit (born October 24, 1994 in Nashik , Maharashtra or Indore ) is an Indian chess player.

In 2008 he won the U14 World Championship in Vũng Tau , at the U16 World Championship in 2009 in Kemer , he was second behind SP Sethuraman . At the U20 World Cup in 2013 in İzmit , he finished third. At the 2015 World Chess Cup in Baku he lost the first round to Lázaro Bruzón , and at the 2017 World Chess Cup , after winning against Neuris Delgado Ramírez and Lê Quang Liêm , he made it into the third round, in which he lost to Ding Liren .

Since October 2009 he has held the title of International Master . He has been a grandmaster since January 2013 . The title was awarded to him at the age of 18 years and 3 months. As of December 2018, he is in third place in the Indian Elo ranking, behind Viswanathan Anand and P. Harikrishna .

With the Indian national team, Vidit took part in the 2016 and 2018 Chess Olympiads , the 2015 and 2017 World Team Championships and the 2016 Asian Team Championship. At the 2017 Team World Cup, he achieved the third-best result on the top board, he won the 2016 Asian Team Championship with the team and at the same time achieved the best individual result on the third board. In the Chinese team championship in 2017 and 2019 , Vidit played for the team from Shanghai, with whom he won the title, and in 2018 for Chengdu, in the Czech Extra League he has been playing for the 1st Novoborský ŠK since 2018 , with whom he will play in the European Club Cup Reached second place in 2018 and 2019. In 2017 he played in the Spanish División de Honor for CA Solvay and in the Hungarian team championship in the 2017/18 season for DVTK Sport Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság . In the German Bundesliga , Vidit plays for SV 1930 Hockenheim in the 2019/20 season .

Web links

Commons : Vidit Santosh Gujrathi  - Collection of Images

• Aditya Pai: Behind chess ace Vidit Gujrathi's success are the enormous sacrifices of his parents. In: Firstpost. 15th July 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vidit Santosh Gujrathi. In: The Times of India . Retrieved December 15, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Gino Di Felice: Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016 . McFarland, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4766-3361-9 , pp. 344 . ( books.google.de - entry Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi ).
3. ↑ Title Applications 80th FIDE Congress 2009, 11-18 October 2009, Halkidiki, GRE International Master (IM) Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi. In: FIDE . Retrieved December 15, 2018 . 
4. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Open India. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed December 15, 2018 . 
5. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open India. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed December 15, 2018 . 
6. ↑ OlimpBase :: World Men's Team Chess Championship :: Vidit Santosh Gujrathi. In: OlimpBase. Retrieved December 15, 2018 . 
7. ↑ OlimpBase :: Men's Asian Team Chess Championship :: Vidit Santosh Gujrathi. In: OlimpBase. Retrieved December 15, 2018 . 
8. ↑ OlimpBase :: Chinese Chess League :: Vidit Santosh Gujrathi. In: OlimpBase. Retrieved December 15, 2018 . 
9. ↑ 34th European Club Cup AVE Novy Bor. In: chess-results.com. October 24, 2018, accessed December 15, 2018 . 
10. ↑ 35th European Club Cup AVE Novy Bor. In: chess-results.com. November 20, 2019, accessed December 15, 2018 .