Abhijeet Gupta has won the 20th Commonwealth Chess championship crown 2016

Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta has won the 20th Commonwealth Chess championship crown 2016 held in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
•    With this victory he has retained the Commonwealth Chess championship crown which was won earlier by him in 19th edition. 
•    Besides, International Master Tania Sachdev also finished with a gold medal. 
•    In this edition all the medals were won by the Indians players in the senior category.
•    Grandmasters S L Narayanan and Deep Chakkravarthy got the silver and bronze medals respectively in the open section.
•    Abhijeet started on a sedate note and conceded two draws to lower ranked opponents by the fourth round itself.
•    Abhijeet has won many laurels for the country, winning 23 medals in all in various World, Asian and Commonwealth Chess Championships in Sub Junior, Junior and Senior Category.
•    Abhijeet became National Junior (Under-19) Chess Champion at the age of 13 years and 10 days in 2002, a record unsurpassed till 2011.