Himanshu Sharma (chess player)

In this Indian name, the name Sharma is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Himanshu.

Himanshu Sharma is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Himanshu Sharma
Country	India
Born	(1983-09-16) 16 September 1983 (age 41) Rohtak, India
Title	Grandmaster (2017)[1]
Peak rating	2514 (August 2017)

Career

In April 2017, he crossed the 2500 rating mark after scoring a win in the fifth round of the 1st Sardar Prakash Singh Memorial. With this, he became India's 47th grandmaster and the first grandmaster from the province of Haryana.^[2]

In July 2017, he won the Barbera Del Valles Open, finishing half a point ahead of runner-up Karen H. Grigoryan. This was his first Open tournament win outside of India^[3]

In June 2022, he was one of the bearers of the Chess Olympiad torch.^[4]