Parimarjan Negi

Parimarjan Negi
CountryIndia
Born (1993-02-09) 9 February 1993 (age 31)
New Delhi, India
TitleGrandmaster (2006)
FIDE rating2612 (September 2024)
Peak rating2671 (October 2013)
Peak rankingNo. 73 (June 2015)

Parimarjan Negi (born 9 February 1993) is an Indian chess grandmaster. 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, 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]

  1. ^ Upama Sinha (22 October 2010). "Chess mate". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 December 2013.