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.
 

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