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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian chess grandmaster (born 2003)}}<br />
{{Indian patronymic|Koustav|Chatterjee}}<br />
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{{Infobox chess player<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|2003|7|21}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], India<br />
| title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (2023)<ref name="FIDEGM">{{cite web|url=https://ratings.fide.com/crt/main229423.pdf|title=FIDE Title Application (GM)}}</ref><br />
| peakrating = 2548 (May 2023)<br />
| FideID = 25073060<br />
}}<br />
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'''Koustav Chatterjee''' is an Indian [[chess]] grandmaster.<br />
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==Career==<br />
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.]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chessbase.in/news/Koustav-Chatterjee-becomes-Indias-78th-Grandmaster|title=Koustav Chatterjee becomes India's 78th Grandmaster|first=Shahid|last=Ahmed|date=8 January 2023}}</ref><br />
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Koustav fulfilled the Grandmaster requirements on 31 December 2022, after drawing against [[Mitrabha Guha]] in the MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/chess/koustav-chatterjee-becomes-indias-78th-grandmaster-8355030/|title=Koustav Chatterjee becomes India's 78th Grandmaster|date=1 January 2023|newspaper=The Indian Express|accessdate=5 August 2025}}</ref> In the 58th edition of the event a year prior, he had scored upset wins against [[S. P. Sethuraman]] and [[Karthikeyan Murali]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/chess/news-senior-national-chess-championship-koustav-chatterjee-song-five-share-lead-fifth-round|title=Senior National Chess Championship: Koustav Chatterjee on song; five share lead after fifth|date=27 February 2022|first=Suhas|last=Nayse}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Koustav is studying finance at the [[University of Texas at Dallas]] and played on their chess team.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chessbase.in/news/David-Brodsky-triumphs-at-89th-Annual-Southwest-Open-2023-Koustav-Rahul-and-Saksham-share-second-place|title=David Brodsky triumphs at 89th Annual Southwest Open 2023, Koustav, Rahul and Saksham share second place|first=Shahid|last=Ahmed|date=28 September 2023}}</ref> In the 2023 Texas Collegiate Super Finals, he played on board 1 for Team A.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://utdmercury.com/chess-team-comes-up-short-in-collegiate-super-finals/|title=Chess team comes up short in Collegiate Super Finals|first=Aafiya|last=Aslam|date=2 October 2023}}</ref><br />
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