Gm susanto megaranto biography
Bio.
Susanto Megaranto (born 8 October ) is an....
Susanto Megaranto
Indonesian chess grandmaster (born 1987)
Susanto Megaranto (born 8 October 1987) is an Indonesian chess player.
In 2004, he became the youngest Indonesian ever to qualify for the title Grandmaster at 17, beating out Utut Adianto's record by four years. He won the Indonesian Chess Championship four times in a row from 2006 to 2010.
Indonesia's youngest GM in history and the no.1 player Susanto Megaranto () was up against the world champion, Magnus Carlsen (NOR, ) in Round 9 ofHe graduated from Gunadarma University.
In 2004 he tied for 2nd-3rd with Eugenio Torre in the SEA Games in Vietnam.[1] In the same year he tied for first with Mark Paragua in the Singapore Masters Open and won the event on tie-break.[2] In 2007 he tied for 3rd-8th with Abhijit Kunte, Zhao Jun, Wen Yang, Darwin Laylo and Zhou Jianchao in the Asian Chess Championship.
In 2008, he tied for 3rd-7th with Marat Dzhumaev, Darwin Laylo, Dražen Sermek and Ashot Nadanian in the 5th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Championship in Kuala Lumpur[3] and tied for 3rd-6th with Nguyen Anh Dung, Irwanto Sadikin and Mages