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Ganguly’s long wait is over

NEW DELHI: National chess champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly’s long wait to breach the coveted 2600-point rating mark has ended.

When FIDE updated India’s rating on Wednesday, Ganguly was rated at 2614, a gain of 35 points since January 1. He also became only the fifth Indian to be rated above 2600.

India’s top 20: 1. Viswanathan Anand (2803), 2. P. Hari Krishna and K. Sasikiran (2679), 4. Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2614), 5. K. Humpy (2603), 6. Sandipan Chanda (2585), 7. G.N. Gopal (2562), 8. Abhijit Kunte (2547), 9. Abhijeet Gupta (2521), 10. Parimarjan Negi (2514), 11. Dibyendu Barua (2492), 12. R.R. Laxman and K. Ratnakaran (2488), 14. P. Magesh Chandran (2486), 15. R.B. Ramesh (2472), 16. S. Arun Prasad and Neelotpal Das (2465), 18. Deepan Chakkravarthy and S. Vijayalakshmi (2464), 20. D. Harika (2461).

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