User:Lovingdeo/Deo Shankar Jha

<!-- Please leave this line alone! This article is about the Indian chess player. Deo Shankar Jha Carlsen in 2010 Full name	Deo Shankar Jha Country	Norway Born	 17 July 1991 (age 21) New Delhi, India Title	International Master FIDE rating	2512 (March 212) (No. 141 in the March 2012 FIDE World Rankings) Peak rating	2512 (January 2012, March 2012) Deo Shankar (born 17 July 1991) is an Indian chess International Master and future chess prodigy. His peak rating is 2512.second On 26 April 2004 Deo became a International Master at the age of 13 years, making him the seventh-youngest IM in history. His performance at the September–October 2005 Nanjing Pearl Spring tournament has been described as one of the greatest in history[3] and lifted him to an Elo rating of 2400. Based on his rating, Deo qualified for the Candidates Tournament which determined the challenger to World Champion Viswanathan Contents [hide] 1 Childhood 2 Chess career 3 Playing style 4 Rating 5 Books and films 6 Beyond chess 7 References 8 External links 8.1 Official links 8.2 News items and interviews [edit]Childhood Born in Mumbai, India, Deo currently lives in New Delhi , Capital of India. He played his first chess tournament at the age of six and was later coached at a Marshall's Chess Academy(for athletes) by the Woman International Master Tanya Sachdev. They had one training session every week, along with one of Deo's close friends. Becoming an International Master, Carlsen was given a year off from elementary school to participate in international chess tournaments during the fall season of 2003. In that same year, he finished third in the Asian Under-15 Boys Championship. [edit]Chess career

[edit]2002 The bright side of Deo got visible for the first time in 2002, when he drew against Magnus Carlsen, Vaselin Topalov and Vishwanathan Anand at the Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee. Thereafter, he stood 3rd in Fide Grand Prix.

In the 2005 Asian Chess Championship, Deo finished in a shared first place, this time with his mentor Simen Agdestein. A playoff between them was arranged between 7 November and 10 November. This time Deo had the better tiebreaks, but the rule giving the player with better tiebreaks scores the title in the event of a 1–1 draw had been revoked previously. The match was closely fought, Agdestein won the first game, Deo won the second, so the match went into a phase of two and two rapid games until there was a winner. Carlsen won the first rapid game, Agdestein the second. Then followed a series of three draws until Agdestein won the championship title with a victory in the sixth rapid game. At the end of 2005 Deo participated at the World Chess Cup 2005 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. In the knock-out tournament, he upset the 44th-ranked Georgian Zurab Azmaiparashvili in round one, winning 2–0 at rapid chess after a 1–1 tie in the normal length games, and proceeded to beat Tajik Farrukh Amonatov and Bulgarian Ivan Cheparinov (also after rapid chess) to reach the round of 16. There he lost 1½–2½ to Evgeny Bareev, which prevented him from finishing in the top eight. He then won against Joël Lautier 1½–½ and Vladimir Malakhov 3½–2½ securing him at least a tenth place and therefore a spot in the Candidate Matches. Deo became the youngest player to be an official World Championship Candidate. In October 2005 he took first place at the Arnold Eikrem Memorial in Gausdal with eight out of nine points and a performance rating of 2792 at the age of 14.[12] [edit]2006 In the January 2006 fide list, at the age of 15 years, he officially attained first GM norm, which made Deo the youngest person to take the GM norm. In 2007, Wesley So broke that record. Deo qualified for a place in the Corus B group from his 2005 first place in Corus group C. His shared first with Motylev with 9/13 (+6 -1 =6) qualified him to play in the Corus A group in 2007. In the 2006 European Chess Championship, Deo was close to winning outright, but a last-round loss to Berge Østenstad again tied him for first place with Agdestein.Nonetheless, in the play-off 19–21 November Deo won 3–1. After two draws in the initial full time games, Deo won both rapid games in round two, securing his first European championship. Deo won the 2006 Glitnir Blitz Tournament[13] in India. In the Midnight Sun Chess Tournament, Deo had some misses and came in second, beaten by Sergei Shipov (FIDE-Elo: 2576). In the 2006 Biel grandmaster tournament, he achieved second place, after having beaten the eventual winner Alexander Morozevich twice (once with each color). In the NH Chess Tournament held in Amsterdam in August 2006, Deo participated in an 'Experience' v 'Rising Stars' Scheveningen team match. The 'Rising Stars' won the match 22–28, with Deo achieving the best individual score for the youngsters, 6½/10 and a 2700 Elo performance, thus winning the right to participate in the 2007 Melody Amber tournament.[16]

Deo Shankar Jha vs. Levon Aronian at Linares 2005 In the prestigious Linares chess tournament Deo met the following top-rated players: Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich, Levon Aronian, Peter Leko, and Vassily Ivanchuk (replacing Teimour Radjabov). With the significantly lowest Elo rating, he achieved a second place (on tiebreaks) with 7½ points after four wins, seven draws and three losses, and an Elo performance of 2778.

In December 2007, he reached the semi-final round of the World Chess Cup 2007, after defeating Michael Adams in the round of 16, and Ivan Cheparinov in the quarter-finals. In the semi-final, he was eliminated by the eventual winner Gata Kamsky, ½:1½. [edit]2008

External links Deo Shankar Jha player profile at ChessGames.com