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Option 4 : P Iniyan
The correct answer is P Iniyan.
- Indian Grandmaster P Iniyan won the prestigious Annual World Open online chess tournament held in the 48th edition.
- Iniyan and Sjugiro Sanan finished with 7.5 points, but the Tamil Nadu player emerged winner because of a better tie-break score.
- The 48th edition of the annual event, which ran from August 7-9, was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- A total number of 120 players from 16 countries participated in the event which included more than 30 Grandmasters.
- On the 5th of March 2020, P Iniyan became the 61st Grandmaster of India from Erode, Tamil Nadu.
- He was only 16 years old at the time of this achievement.
- Viswanathan Anand was the first Grandmaster in India.
- D. Gukesh became India's youngest GM at 12 years, 7 months, and 17 days.
| Person | Description |
| Nihal Sarin | He is an Indian chess player from the state of Kerala who got the title of Grandmaster at the age of 14. |
| Prithu Gupta |
He is an Indian chess player from Delhi. He became the 64th Grandmaster in India in the year 2019. He has achieved this feat of becoming a GM at the tender age of 15 years, 4 months, and 10 days old. |
| Aryan Chopra | He is an Indian chess player from New Delhi. He became Grandmaster in the year 2016. |
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