Indian teenager Aarav Dengla gained the 2024 Grand Paris Masters Championship, the oldest French chess event final Sunday. The event was performed outdoors the capital metropolis for the primary time as a result of upcoming Olympic Video games.
Held on the Blanche de Castille Excessive College in Villemomble outdoors Paris, the Masters chess occasion had 250 gamers in competition for the coveted title. The 15-year-old Dengla took the highlight within the Masters event. Dengla achieved an ideal rating of seven factors to safe a transparent victory to mark his first Parisian championship title. He completed forward of his compatriot Dalvi Aaakash who obtained an Worldwide Grasp (IM) norm.
“I began studying (chess) after I was 5. I performed my first few day tournaments after I was six. Since then I’ve all the time been in love with the sport,” Dengla had informed chess.com in 2022 after he obtained his first IM norm.
“Initially, it began out as a pastime. My mother taught it to me and inside three-four weeks, I used to be enjoying in native tournaments. After some time, I started enjoying in FIDE tournaments and that’s after I wished to get a bit additional into chess and change into a grandmaster,” Dengla added.
In 2016, Dengla had set a then report for changing into the youngest gold medal winner on the under-10 Mumbai College Sports activities Affiliation (MSSA) chess event, shortly after his seventh birthday.
This win is particular for Dengla, having beforehand earned his first and third IM norms on the event in 2022 and 2023. He was handed the IM title in the course of the first FIDE Council in 2024. Russian Grandmaster (GM) Andrei Shchekachev shared the rostrum and gained the title of 2024 Occasion Champion.