Koustav Chatterjee

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

Koustav Chatterjee is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Koustav Chatterjee

Personal information
Born	(2003-07-21) 21 July 2003 (age 22) Kolkata, India
Chess career
Country	India
Title	Grandmaster (2023)[1]
FIDE rating	2488 (October 2025)
Peak rating	2548 (May 2023)

Career

In October 2021, Koustav scored his first GM-norm at Sheikh Russell GM 2021. He defeated Visakh N. R. and Vignesh N. R., and drew with J. Deepan Chakkravarthy, Michał Krasenkow, Vugar Asadli, and Stany G.A..^[2]

Koustav fulfilled the Grandmaster requirements on 31 December 2022, after drawing against Mitrabha Guha in the MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship.^[3] In the 58th edition of the event a year prior, he had scored upset wins against S. P. Sethuraman and Karthikeyan Murali.^[4]

Personal life

Koustav is studying finance at the University of Texas at Dallas and played on their chess team.^[5] In the 2023 Texas Collegiate Super Finals, he played on board 1 for Team A.^[6]