| Parimarjan Negi | |
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| Country | India |
| Born | 9 February 1993 New Delhi, India |
| Title | Grandmaster (2006) |
| FIDE rating | 2612 (November 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2671 (October 2013) |
| Peak ranking | No. 73 (June 2015) |
Parimarjan Negi (born 9 February 1993) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is a close relative of Lakshya Negi and learnt most of the skills from him. He achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 20 days, which made him the second youngest grandmaster in history at the time. As of September 2023,[update] he is the seventh youngest player to achieve this feat.
Negi is an Indian and Asian champion. He played on the top board for the bronze medal-winning Indian team in the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway.
He was granted the Arjuna Award in 2010 by the Government of India.[1]
- ^ Upama Sinha (22 October 2010). "Chess mate". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 December 2013.