I am happy the way things turned out in the end, otherwise my position was just lost, I was lucky I should say.
Parimarjan Negi is an Indian chess grandmaster. He achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 20 days, which makes him the sixth youngest grandmaster in history.
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.
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Chess career
Parimarjan Negi won the under 10 division at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in 2002 in Tehran. He achieved his first grandmaster norm at the 2005/06 Hastings International Chess Congress. Soon after he earned his second GM norm at the 4th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament in Delhi. Negi earned his third and final GM norm on 1 July 2006 by drawing with Russian Grandmaster Ruslan Sherbakov at the Chelyabinsk Region Superfinal Championship in Satka, Russia, where he finished with six points from nine rounds. Negi thus became the youngest chess grandmaster ever in India, breaking Pentala Harikrishna's record, and the second youngest ever in the world.
Negi won the strong Philadelphia International Open Tournament in June 2008 with a score of 7/9, and was undefeated. In August 2008, he finished second, behind Abhijeet Gupta, at the World Junior Chess Championship in Gazientep. In 2009 he won the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen with 8.5/10, on tiebreaks over Boris Avrukh, and the 6th IGB Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur.
Parimarjan Negi won the 48th National Premier Chess Championship on 22 December 2010 in New Delhi.
In 2012 Negi has won the 11th Asian Chess Championship held in Ho Chi Minh City. He tied for first place in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open in 2012 and 2013. In 2013, he also won the Politiken Cup for the second time.
Books
- Parimarjan Negi 2014. 1.e4 vs The French, Caro-Kann and Philidor. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1906552060.
- Parimarjan Negi 2015. 1.e4 vs The Sicilian I. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-39-8.
- Parimarjan Negi 2015. 1.e4 vs The Sicilian II. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-57-6.
- Parimarjan Negi 2016. 1.e4 vs The Sicilian III. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-78483-023-6.
Personal life
Parimarjan Negi attended school at Amity International School in New Delhi. He then graduated from Stanford University as a Mathematics major in 2018. He is currently a PhD student at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Top questions
Who is Parimarjan Negi?
Parimarjan Negi is an Indian chess grandmaster born in New Delhi in 1993. He is an Indian and Asian champion who played on the top board for the bronze medal-winning Indian team at the 2014 Chess Olympiad. The Government of India granted him the Arjuna Award in 2010. By 2017 he had retired from chess.
How young was Parimarjan Negi when he became a grandmaster?
Negi achieved the grandmaster title at 13 years, 4 months and 20 days. That made him the second youngest grandmaster in history at the time and the youngest in India, breaking Pentala Harikrishna's record. As of June 2025, he is the ninth youngest player to achieve the title. His third norm came on 1 July 2006 in Satka, Russia.
What tournaments did Parimarjan Negi win?
Negi won the 11th Asian Chess Championship in Ho Chi Minh City in 2012 and the 48th National Premier Chess Championship in New Delhi in December 2010. He won the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen in 2009 and again in 2013, and the Philadelphia International Open in June 2008 with 7/9, undefeated.
How did Parimarjan Negi do at the 2014 Chess Olympiad?
Negi played on the top board for the Indian team that won the bronze medal at the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway. Earlier, in August 2008, he finished second behind Abhijeet Gupta at the World Junior Chess Championship in Gaziantep, and in 2002 he won the under 10 division at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Tehran.
What chess books has Parimarjan Negi written?
Negi wrote a four-volume opening series for Quality Chess on the move 1.e4. The first, 1.e4 vs The French, Caro-Kann and Philidor, appeared in 2014. The three volumes of 1.e4 vs The Sicilian followed, two in 2015 and the third in 2016.
Where did Parimarjan Negi study?
Negi attended Amity International School in New Delhi and graduated from Stanford University as a Mathematics major in 2018. By 2017 he had retired from chess. As of July 2021, he is a PhD student at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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