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  GM Abhijit Kunte - Advisor for LatestChess
 
  Name: Abhijit Kunte
Date of Birth: 3rd March 1977
Education: B.Com, Diploma in Business Management, Master in Management Sciences.
Current ELO Rating Points – 2524

Awards

1. Late Shri Raja Mantri Puraskar, as a Best Player of Pune City 1994-95, Awarded by Shahid Bhagatsing Mitra Mandal, Pune.

2. Late Shri Sunil Tambe Kreeda Puraskar, as a Best Player of Pune City 1994, Awarded by Navmaharashtra Sangh, Pune.

3. International Marathon Award as a Best Junior Player Of Pune City, 1993-94, Awarded by International Marathon, Pune.

4. Shri Shivchatrapati Award, 1998-99, Awarded by Maharashtra State Government.

He Started playing Chess at the age of 8.

• Became India’s 4th Grandmaster in the year 2000 and second from Maharashtra.
• Four Asian (Three Team and one Individual) medals (1 Gold ,2 silver, 1 bronze).
• Two Commonwealth (individual) medals. (1 silver, 1 Bronze).
• Member of Indian Team for past 10 years.
• Represented India in last consecutive four Chess Olympiads.
• Member of Indian Team which one Gold Medal at Asian Team Chess Championship at Iran. This is India’s 1st Gold Medal.
• Winner of Canadian Open at Kitchner 2006.
• British Champion 2003. (Became last Indian /foreigner to win the event as British Chess Federation stopped all foreign participation in this 83 year old tournament)
• One Gold and one Bronze medal at Junior level (Individual) .
• Two times National Champion .1997 and 2000
• Seven age group National Titles.
• National record of winning National Junior three times in a row. 1995-96-97.
 
  Sandeep Gohad - Editor and developer for LatestChess
 
Name: Sandeep Gohad
Date of Birth: 9th September 1980
Education: B.Com, Post Graduation Diploma in Computer Applications, M.Com, Masters in Computer Management.
FIDE rated Chess player.

Working with SRC, LLC (Nashua, USA) as software programmer.

Working as editor for LatestChess.com, CPAI.in (Chess players association of India), PythonThreads.com (Python programming language)

Chess Performances

√ Represented Pune University in THE GRAND ASIAN CHESS CHALLENGE Tournament held at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
√ 3 Times CAPTAIN of
Pune University Chess Team.
√ Won individual Gold Medal In the All India Inter-University Chess Tournament.
√ Winners of All India Inter-University Chess Tournament (* amongst 90 universities , 540 players)
√ Stood 2nd in the
Maharashtra State Open Chess Championships.
√ Represented Maharashtra in the National Level Chess Championships.
 
Saurabh Ambekar - Editor and developer for LatestChess

Name: Saurabh Ambekar
Date of Birth: 1st October 1981
Education - Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology)

He has Participated in many national level and rating tournaments.

Working with Sony (Tokyo, Japan) as Senior software programmer.

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