Aarav Dengla

Aarav Dengla
Personal information
Born (2009-07-25) July 25, 2009
Mumbai, India
Chess career
CountryIndia
TitleGrandmaster (2026)[1]
FIDE rating2506 (August 2026)
Peak rating2506 (February 2026)

Aarav Dengla (born July 25, 2009) is an American and Indian chess player. He is India's 93rd grandmaster and the third from Mumbai, Maharashtra.[2][3] His classical live rating stands at 2506. Dengla is the youngest winner of the Grand Paris Masters Championship.[4]

Career

He started playing rated tournaments at the age of 6. His first formal coach was Grandmaster Pravin Thipsay, and he later trained under Indian grandmaster and coach Vishnu Prasanna V.[5]

Dengla received his first GM norm in 2022 at the GM tournament in Bijeljina before winning the Grand Paris Masters Championship in 2024.[6] He won gold at the FIDE Worlds School Rapid and Blitz 2024.[7][8]

He won his second GM norm during the Zupanja Celebrates the Chess GM-Norm Round Robin in Croatia in 2025.

The third and final GM norm for Dengla came when he won the GM Mix Bijeljina and GM norm Round Robin Tournament consecutively in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[9][10]

Writings

Aarav Dengla is a regular contributor to leading Indian dailies where he writes on chess history. His writings have been published in The Economic Times, The Indian Express and The Times of India. Some of his articles include:

  • Chess, a chequered Islamic past & present (The Economic Times)[11]
  • Chess battles: How India-China face-off in 2024 is like the US-USSR Cold War face-off (The Indian Express)[12]
  • 'Gens Una Sumus' - What three Latin words beneath a chess emblem taught me about the world (The Times of India)[13]
  • Bobby Fischer: The champion America summoned, and Iceland sheltered (The Times of India)[14]
  • The Stateless Kings: How Chess preserves an ideal in a fractured world (The Times of India)[15]
  • How 3 members of England's 1939 Chess Olympiad team became wartime codebreakers during WWII (The Times of India)[16]
  • Before AI, there was the Mechanical Turk: The chess machine that wasn't[17]

References

  1. ↑ "FIDE Title Application (GM)" (PDF).
  2. ↑ "Viswanathan Anand to Aarav Dengla: Full list of India's 93 Grandmasters". February 28, 2026.
  3. ↑ Ratnaparkhi, Rasika (February 25, 2026). "Aarav Dengla becomes India's 93rd Grandmaster and Mumbai's third - ChessBase India". www.chessbase.in.
  4. ↑ "Indian teenager Aarav Dengla wins oldest French chess tournament moved out of Paris for Olympics". The Indian Express. 2024-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-02.
  5. ↑ Sundar, C. Shyam (March 8, 2026). "Working with coach Vishnu Prasanna fast-tracked GM Aarav's rise" – via www.thehindu.com.
  6. ↑ Bret, Felix (2026-03-27). "Aarav Dengla '28 Earns Chess Grandmaster Title". The Phillipian. Retrieved 2026-06-06.
  7. ↑ "Who Is Aarav Dengla? Mumbai Teenager Becomes India's 93rd Chess Grandmaster".
  8. ↑ Pall, Omair (March 3, 2026). "Who Is Aarav Dengla? India's 93rd Grandmaster Whose Mother Quit Her Job For His Career In Chess". Mashable India.
  9. ↑ Sportstar, Team (March 1, 2026). "Aarav Dengla becomes India's 93rd Chess Grandmaster". Sportstar.
  10. ↑ "Aarav Dengla becomes India's 93rd Grandmaster at 17". February 28, 2026.
  11. ↑ Dengla, Aarav (2025-05-18). "Chess, a chequered Islamic past & present: Banned by Taliban, backed by Saudi as it hosts its debut WC". The Economic Times. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 2026-08-15.
  12. ↑ "Chess battles: How India-China face-off in 2024 is like the US-USSR Cold War face-off". The Indian Express. 2024-11-12. Retrieved 2026-08-15.
  13. ↑ "'Gens Una Sumus' - What three Latin words beneath a chess emblem taught me about the world". The Times of India. 2026-07-26. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2026-08-15.
  14. ↑ "Bobby Fischer: The champion America summoned, and Iceland sheltered". The Times of India. 2026-08-02. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2026-08-15.
  15. ↑ "The Stateless Kings: How Chess preserves an ideal in a fractured world". The Times of India. 2026-08-09. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2026-08-15.
  16. ↑ "How 3 members of England's 1939 Chess Olympiad team became wartime codebreakers during WWII". The Times of India. 2026-08-16. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
  17. ↑ "Before AI, there was the Mechanical Turk: The chess machine that wasn't". The Times of India. 2026-08-23. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2026-08-29.
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