Vidit Santosh Gujarathi - The Young Grandmaster of India

Vidit Santosh Gujarathi attained the inscription of Grandmaster in January 2013, stricken in years 18 years and 3 months. He is among the top ten Chess players from India.

He was born in Nasik on 24 October 1994 to Dr Santosh Gujrathi and Dr Nikta Santhosh Gujrathi. He did his in season education at Fravashi Scientific body and was coached in Chess from an in season age. In 2006, he finished second in the Asian Bloom Championship in the U12 rank, thus becoming a FIDE Director. 

Gujrathi became an IM when he secured 7 points out of 13 in the Velammal 45th Public A Chess Championship in Chennai in 2008.  In 2008, he won the nature bloom chess championship in the Sub younger rank (Free U14), becoming the first Indian to do so. He scored 9 points out of a possible 11, gaining his latest model to become an Between nations Director.

He completed 2nd in the U-16 rank of the Nature Bloom Chess Championship in the year 2009, tying at 9 points to the ultimate winner, also from India. In the nature younger chess championship in Chennai in 2011, held for U20 players, Vidit completed with 8 points out of 13, thus gaining his first GM model. 

In the Nagpur Between nations Free in 2011, Vidit completed with 8 points out of 11, one sharp end behind the ultimate winner. He gained his second GM model in the tourney. Vidit achieved his latest GM model in the eighth round of the Rose Bottom Kolkata Free Grandmasters’ chess tourney in 2012, where he completed third. 

In 2013, Vidit won a alloy of copper medal in the Nature Younger Chess Championship in Turkey in the Younger (U-20) rank. Vidit completed third in the Hyderabad Between nations Grandmasters chess tourney in 2013, lovely Rs 1.5 lakh. 

Vidit has been also performing in the top 10 of other tournaments, including the Body politic Championship in 2008. Throughout the years, Vidit was also coached by IM Anup Deshmukh, IM Roktim Bandopadhyay and GM Alon Greenfeld of Israel. Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte, who also coached Vidit earlier, said in 2013 that Vidit could hold forth an ELO rating of 2700 in two-three years. Kunte also considered Vidit's positional faculty of perception first-rate, comparing him to the Indian chess marvel P Harikrishna.

 He supports chess in India. He also tells that chess coaches in India can help the youngsters and he even want to settle chessacademies in India.