Surya Shekhar Ganguly

Surya Shekhar Ganguly is an Indian chess player. He became the International Master at 16 and the Grandmaster at 19. The player has bagged 14 individual gold medals, 21 individual silver medals, and 6 individual bronze medals. He wore the captain’s hat at the Asian Nations Online Cup, 2020, where India stood second. Additionally, he won 12 gold medals, 4 silver medals, and 3 bronze medals in team competitions. Ganguly was a six-time national champion (2003-2008) and held the Asian championship in 2009.

Here are some of his career achievements:

• Bronze medal at the 1991 World U-10 Championship, held in Warsaw
• Silver medal at the 1995 World U-12 Championship, held in St. Lorenzo
• Awarded the Arjuna Award by the Government of India in 2005
• Received the "Shera Bangali Award”, in 2009
• Gold medal at the 2009 Asian Chess Championships, held in the Philippines
• Bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games, held in Guangzhou
• Honoured with the "Khel Samman Award” in 2013, by the Government of West Bengal
• Silver medal at the 2015 Asian Chess Championships, held in Dubai
• Bestowed with the "Bangabhusan Award" in 2015
• Won four gold medal at the National Team Championship in 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018
• In 2016, he brought gold at the Bangkok Open, 2016
• He bagged a gold medal at the Canberra International, 2017
• Bagged gold medal at the Hunan International Open, 2019
• Won World Team Championship, 2019