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{{short description|Indian chess grandmaster (born 1988)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox chess player
|name = Deep Sengupta
|image = Deep Sengupta 2014 Basel.jpg
|caption = Deep Sengupta (2014)
|country = India
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|06|30|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Chakradharpur]], [[Jharkhand]], India
|death_date =
|death_place =
|title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (2010)
|worldchampion =
|rating =
|peakrating = 2596 (July 2017)
|FideID = 5008352
}}

'''Deep Sengupta''' (born 30 June 1988) is an Indian [[chess]] player. He is India's 22nd player to be awarded the title [[grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] by [[FIDE]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/top-stories/Deep-likely-to-be-awarded-with-the-GM-title/articleshow/5662432.cms | work=The Times Of India | title=Deep likely to be awarded with the GM title | date=9 March 2010}}</ref> Sengupta competed in the [[FIDE World Cup]] in 2017.

== Career ==
Born in [[Chakradharpur]],<ref name=fide/> Sengupta started chess with the Chakradharpur Chess Academy.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/jharkhand/finally-a-grandmaster-from-home-22-year-old-deep-sengupta-clinches-coveted-chess-title-at-cannes/cid/539434|title=Finally, a Grandmaster from home – 22-year-old Deep Sengupta clinches coveted chess title at Cannes|author=Jayesh Thaker|date=2010-03-09|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]]|location=Kolkata|accessdate=3 April 2011}}</ref> He won the [[World Youth Chess Championship]]s in the Under 12 category in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|title=TWIC 312: World Youth Championships Oropesa del Mar|last=Crowther|first=Mark|url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic312.html#7|date=2000-10-30|access-date=2020-08-07|website=The Week in Chess}}</ref>

Sengupta achieved his first [[Norm (chess)|norm]] for the title Grandmaster (GM) in the [[World Junior Chess Championship]] in [[Kochi]], India in December 2004<ref name=fide>[http://ratings.fide.com/crt/main1348.pdf GM title application] (PDF). FIDE.</ref> and won the Indian juniors title in 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianchessfed.org/News/12news46.asp |title=Deep, Soumya Become Junior Champions |publisher=All India Chess Federation |accessdate=3 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726174914/http://www.indianchessfed.org/News/12news46.asp |archivedate=26 July 2011 }}</ref>

In April 2009, he won the [[Doeberl Cup]], earning his second GM norm.<ref name=fide/> In 2010, he tied for the top position with [[Tigran Gharamian]] and [[Vadim Malakhatko]] at the 24th Open "Pierre and Vacances"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessdom.com/news-2010/pierre-vacances-open|title=Tigran Gharamian wins Pierre and Vacances open|date=7 March 2010 |publisher=Chessdom|accessdate=8 March 2010}}</ref> in [[Cannes]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/view_source.phtml?code=47145|title=FIDE Original Tournament Report. 24e Open International "Pierre et Vacances" – A|website=ratings.fide.com|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref> thereby completing the requirements for the Grandmaster title.<ref name="fide" /> He tied for first with [[Arghyadip Das]] in the 2010/11 [[Hastings International Chess Congress|Hastings Masters]] tournament and won the event on tiebreak.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6926|title=Indians Sengupta and Das win Hastings|date=2011-01-06|publisher=ChessBase.com|accessdate=6 January 2011}}</ref> In 2011 he tied for 2nd–7th with [[Maxim Turov]], [[Viacheslav Zakhartsov]], [[Krisztián Szabó (chess player)|Krisztián Szabó]], [[Lev Gutman]], [[Dávid Bérczes]] and [[Samuel Shankland]] in the [[ZMDI]] Open in [[Dresden]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic875.html#12|title=The Week in Chess 875: 20th ZMDI Open|publisher=London Chess Centre|accessdate=24 April 2018}}</ref> He was placed 4th in the [[Indian Chess Championship]] 2012. Sengupta won the 2014 [[Commonwealth Chess Championship]], held in [[Glasgow]], edging out [[Aravindh Chithambaram]] on tiebreak score. Both players concluded the event with 7½/9 points each.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessdom.com/gm-sengupta-deep-claims-commonwealth-chess-championship-2014|title=GM Sengupta Deep claims Commonwealth Chess Championship 2014|date=10 July 2014 |publisher=Chessdom|accessdate=10 July 2014}}</ref> Sengupta won the 2016/2017 Hastings tournament, being a clear winner with 7/9 points. This led to his name being embedded in the Golombek Trophy once again.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/gm-deep-sengupta-wins-hastings-masters|title=Deep Sengupta victorious in Hastings|date=2017-01-07|publisher=ChessBase}}</ref> Sengputa also tied for first at the 2017/2018 Hastings Congress.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/hastings-2017-deep-sengupta|title=Hastings: the incredible rally of Deep Sengupta|date=2018-01-09|website=Chess News|access-date=2019-04-15}}</ref> In 2019 he tied with [[Jan Gustafsson]] for first in the [[Bangkok]] Open.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chess24.com/en/read/news/jan-wins-his-2nd-bangkok-chess-club-open|title=Jan wins his 2nd Bangkok Chess Club Open|last=McGourty|first=Colin|date=15 April 2019|work=Chess24.com|accessdate=2019-04-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/gustafsson-bags-bangkok-open|title=Gustafsson bags Bangkok Open|date=2019-04-15|website=Chess News|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Sengupta resides in [[Kasba (Kolkata)|Kasba]]. He works for the [[Oil and Natural Gas Corporation]] of India. He has an elder brother, Pratik Sengupta, who plays chess as well.

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
*{{Fide}}
*{{chessgames.com player|56773}}
*{{365Chess.com player|Deep_Sengupta}}
*[http://www.olimpbase.org/playerst/1jnbr7de.html Deep Sengupta] team chess record at Olimpbase.org

{{Indian grandmasters}}

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[[Category:World Youth Chess Champions]]
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