Abhijit Kunte

Who is Abhijit Kunte?

Abhijit Kunte is an Indian chess Grandmaster.

He has participated many times in the Indian Chess Championship, winning two gold medals and four bronze medals. He won the British Chess Championship at Edinburgh 2003, and two medals in the Commonwealth Chess Championship.

Kunte has represented India four times at Chess Olympiads, and won seven medals in the Asian Team Chess Championship.

In 2000, he played in the Single-elimination tournament for the World Chess Championship where he lost a knockout match to Gilberto Milos. In 2007, he took the bronze medal at Cebu City's Asian Chess Championship, and played in the Chess World Cup 2007 where lost a knockout match to Vadim Zviagintsev.

He won or shared 1st at Kolkata 1998, Blackpool 2003, Kolkata 2004, New Delhi 2005, Guelph 2005, Kitchener 2006 and Mumbai 2008.