 Kunte in 2015 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1977-03-03)3 March 1977 (age 48) Pune, India |
| Chess career | |
| Country | India |
| Title | Grandmaster (2000) |
| FIDE rating | 2458 (February 2026) |
| Peak rating | 2568 (January 2001) |
Abhijit Kunte (born 3 March 1977) is an Indianchess player fromPune who holds theFIDE title ofGrandmaster.
He has participated many times in theIndian Chess Championship, winning two gold medals (1997, 2000)[1] and four bronze medals (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005). He won theBritish Chess Championship at Edinburgh in 2003,[2] and two medals in theCommonwealth Chess Championship (took 2nd, behindKrishnan Sasikiran, at Sangli 2000, and 3rd at Mumbai 2003,Nguyen Anh Dung won off contest).
Kunte has represented India four times atChess Olympiads (1998–2004),[3] and won seven medals in theAsian Team Chess Championship (team bronze medal in 1999, two team and individual silver medals in 2003, team gold and bronze individual medals in 2005, team silver and individual bronze medals in 2008).[4]
In 2000, he played in theSingle-elimination tournament for theWorld Chess Championship (New Delhi/Tehran) where he lost a knockout match toGilberto Milos.[5] In 2007, he took the bronze medal at Cebu City'sAsian Chess Championship (Zhang Pengxiang was the winner),[6] and played in theChess World Cup 2007 (Khanty-Mansiysk) where he lost a knockout match toVadim Zviagintsev).[7]
He won or shared 1st at Kolkata (Calcutta) 1998, Blackpool 2003, Kolkata 2004, New Delhi 2005, Guelph 2005, Kitchener 2006 and Mumbai (Bombay) 2008.
He was awarded theGrandmaster title in 2000.
