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Akshat Chandra was born on 28 May, 1999 in Livingston, New Jersey, U.S., is an American chess grandmaster (born 1999). Discover Akshat Chandra's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 25 years old?

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Age 25 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 28 May, 1999
Birthday 28 May
Birthplace Livingston, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Akshat Chandra Net Worth

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1999

Akshat Chandra (born May 28, 1999) is an American chess player.

2009

He started playing Chess during a visit to India in 2009 when he was nine years old.

2010

After learning chess from local part-time coaches, he began working with his first professional coach, the Serbian GM Predrag Trajkovic, in 2010, who worked with him for about years until early 2014.

Trajkovic exposed him to Soviet style chess, with a focus on positional understanding.

In January 2010, he received his starting FIDE rating of 1548.

2012

Besides growing up in the US, Chandra lived in India for a few years, and in Europe in 2012.

When his family had relocated to India, Akshat was drawn to Chess.

He is also a writer, and documented his journey from a beginner to Grandmaster level on his blog Quest to GM, which was then converted to a personal website.

He was the youngest regular writer for Chessbase, and contributed articles to the USCF official website.

2013

In April 2013, he won the K-9 Super-National championship.

He was consistently ranked as the number one player in the US in his age category since 2013.

At the age of 14, Chandra won the gold at the North American Youth Championship, U-18 section, in Toronto, Canada.

2014

This was achieved prior to FIDE's change of K-factor multiple effective July 2014 for players aged 18 and less, which inflated point gains.

Since April 2014, Chandra has remained the highest USCF rated Junior Rapid Chess player (U21) in the country.

2015

In 2015, he won the US National K-12 Championship and was also the US Junior Champion, the first time both titles were held by the same person in a single year.

In May 2015 he crossed the 2500 Grandmaster (GM) rating level in realtime rating, the fastest rating improvement in the world of this magnitude recorded in such a short time.

In April 2015, Chandra won the highest Scholastic Chess title in the US–the National K-12 Championship.

In July 2015, he became the US Junior Champion (Closed).

This was the first time in US Chess that both the top Scholastic and the Junior titles were held by the same individual in a single year.

In addition, Chandra was the 2015 National High School Blitz Chess Champion as well.

2016

In the 2016 Saint Louis Autumn Invitational, Chandra achieved the six-day norm and completed his grandmaster title requirements.

He received the 2016 U.S. Chess Trust Scholar-Player award, sponsored by the U.S. Chess Trust and the National Scholastic Chess Foundation.

2017

He earned the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in March 2017.

He was awarded the Grandmaster title in March 2017.

2018

In 2018, he won the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) FIDE Open tournament.

2019

In 2019, he won the 13th annual SPICE Cup Open.

He is the only player to have finished sole first in the top two US collegiate open tournaments - the UTD FIDE and the Spice Cup.

2020

In January 2020, he tied for second place with a score of 6.5/9 in the Charlotte Open, held in Charlotte, North Carolina, tying with GM Cemil Can Ali Marandi, GM Andrew Tang, GM Ulvi Bajarani, and IM Aaron Grabinsky.

In December 2021, Chandra tied for 1st place at the 2021 Charlotte Open alongside Grandmasters Titas Stremavičius, Cemil Can Ali Marandi, Tanguy Ringoir, Robby Kevlishvili, and then-IM Christopher Yoo.