Which title was conferred to Vidit Gujrathi in 2009?
Vidit Gujrathi Vidit Santosh Gujrathi ( born 24 October 1994 ) is an Indian chess player . He attained the title of Grandmaster in January 2013 , becoming the 30th player from India to do so . He is currently the third highest rated player in India ( behind Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna ) , and is the fourth Indian player to have crossed the Elo rating threshold of 2700 . Early life and chess career . Vidit Santosh Gujrathi was born in Indore to Santosh Gujrathi and Nikita Santosh Gujrathi . He did his early schooling at Fravashi Academy and was coached in chess from an early age . In 2006 , he finished second in the Asian Youth Championships in the U12 category , thus receiving the title of FIDE Master . Gujrathi achieved the title of International Master when he secured 7 points out of 13 in the Velammal 45th National A Chess Championship in Chennai in 2008 . In 2008 , he won the World Youth Chess Championship in the Open U14 section , the first Indian to do so . He scored 9 points out of a possible 11 , gaining his final norm to become an International Master . He finished 2nd in the U-16 category of the World Youth Chess Championships in 2009 , tying at 9 points to the eventual winner S.P . Sethuraman , also from India . In the World Junior Chess Championship in Chennai in 2011 , held for U20 players , Vidit finished with 8 points out of 11 , thus gaining his first GM norm . In the Nagpur International Open in 2011 , Vidit finished with 8 points out of 11 , one point behind the eventual winner Ziaur Rahman . He gained his second GM norm in the tournament . Vidit achieved his final GM norm in the eighth round of the Rose Valley Kolkata Open Grandmasters chess tournament in 2012 , where he finished third . In 2013 , Vidit won a bronze medal in the World Junior Chess Championship in Turkey in the Junior ( U-20 ) category . Vidit finished third in the Hyderabad International Grandmasters chess tournament in 2013 , winning Rs 1.5 lakh . Vidit has been also performing in the top 10 of other tournaments , including the Commonwealth 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 reach an Elo rating of 2700 in two-three years . Kunte also considered Vidits positional sense excellent , comparing him to the Indian chess player P Harikrishna . From 22 November 2019 to 25 November , he competed in the Tata Steel Rapid and Blitz , as a wildcard . He finished in a tie for eighth with fellow wildcard Pentala Harikrishna.He was a part of first event of the 2020-21 tour is the Skilling Open with a prize fund of 1 lac US dollars . He was the captain of the historic Gold winning Indian team in FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 . He also shared a behind the scenes story on GRAPHY , how they become a champion of the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad , how he and vice-captain Srinath Narayan manage the team , and how it helped his team management skills . Vidit also has a YouTube channel , which has over 177,000 subscribers as of April 19 , 2021 . Notable Results . - Captain of Gold winning Indian team in FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 . - First place in 2019 Biel Chess Festival Grandmaster tournament . - Runner-up at the 2020 Prague Chess festival masters tournament . - Quarter-Finalist of FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019 . - Rank #12 out of 154 in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2019 with a score of 7.0/11 External links . - Santosh Gujrathi Vidit chess games at 365Chess.com