Koustav Chatterjee

Koustav Chatterjee
Personal information
Born (2003-07-21) 21 July 2003 (age 23)
Kolkata, India
Chess career
CountryIndia
TitleGrandmaster (2023)
FIDE rating2469 (October 2026)
Peak rating2548 (May 2023)

Koustav Chatterjee is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Career

In October 2021, Koustav scored his first GM-norm at Sheikh Russell GM 2021. He defeated Visakh N. R. and Vignesh N. R., and drew with J. Deepan Chakkravarthy, Michał Krasenkow, Vugar Asadli, and Stany G.A..

Koustav fulfilled the Grandmaster requirements on 31 December 2022, after drawing against Mitrabha Guha in the MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship. In the 58th edition of the event a year prior, he had scored upset wins against S. P. Sethuraman and Karthikeyan Murali.

Personal life

Koustav is studying finance at the University of Texas at Dallas and played on their chess team. In the 2023 Texas Collegiate Super Finals, he played on board 1 for Team A.

References

  1. ↑ "FIDE Title Application (GM)" (PDF).
  2. ↑ Ahmed, Shahid (8 January 2023). "Koustav Chatterjee becomes India's 78th Grandmaster".
  3. ↑ "Koustav Chatterjee becomes India's 78th Grandmaster". The Indian Express. 1 January 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  4. ↑ Nayse, Suhas (27 February 2022). "Senior National Chess Championship: Koustav Chatterjee on song; five share lead after fifth".
  5. ↑ Ahmed, Shahid (28 September 2023). "David Brodsky triumphs at 89th Annual Southwest Open 2023, Koustav, Rahul and Saksham share second place".
  6. ↑ Aslam, Aafiya (2 October 2023). "Chess team comes up short in Collegiate Super Finals".