April 26 , 2021
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	- Tamil Nadu’s Arjun Kalyan became India’s 68th Chess Grandmaster.
- He achieved this when he crossed the 2500 ELO mark after beating Dragan Kosic in the fifth round of GM Round Robin “Rujna Zore-3” in Serbia.
- Arjun is coached by IM Saravanan and Ukrainian GM Aleksandr Goloshchapov.
- He began playing chess at the age of nine and got his FIDE rating a year later. 
- Viswanathan Anand became the country’s first Grandmaster, in 1988.

                                 
                            
                                
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