BREAKING NEWS! Ilamparthi AR becomes India's 90th Grandmaster. Born in 2009, Ilamparthi achieved his final norm in Bosnia and Herzegovina today to become India's latest grandmaster. The youngster from Chennai achieved his first GM norm in Ha Noi tournament in Vietnam in December 2023. He scored his 2nd GM norm in Singapore International Open in 2024. At the Rilton Cup in 2024-25, Ilamparthi crossed 2500 and now at the Bijeljina tournament in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he scored his final GM norm. The boy has shown immense promise over the years and the GM title is just a start to an illustrious career ahead. We are very sure that he will reach 2600 soon and break into 2700 as well. Speaking to ChessBase India, his trainer GM Shyam Sundar mentions, "Ilamparthi is a dedicated and a hardworking boy with zero distractions. He spends most of his time at my academy whenever he's in Chennai. He has always listened to whatever I say! For instance:- He loves to solve studies, but at some point I felt it was affecting his game, and I told him to not do that for a while and he listened and hasn't done studies for quite some time." Shyam adds about Ilamparthi's parents, "There is zero pressure from his parents. They don't care what openings he plays and never questioned me in any aspect. This definitely played a huge role and made me free to decide his tournaments and his opening choices and his style of play." Shyam has played a critical role in Ilamparthi's growth and in making him a grandmaster. Ilamparthi is supported by Ambit scholarship for the year 2024-25 through HelpChess (Rs.5 lakh). Group e4 has supported Ilamparthi (Rs 2.5 lakh). He has been supported by Energi Projekt for several years now for his training (Rs.3 lakh). Ilamparthi is a mentee of the WestBridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA) and recently, WestBridge has come forward to support the youngster with Rs.20 lakh per year. This is sure to help Ilamparthi take the next big leap in his career. The boy is also supported by Velammal school, the same school where many of the stars of Indian chess have studied including Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa. In 2022, when Anish Giri won the Death Match in India, he supported Ilamparthi's growth by donating that amount to HelpChess. A big thank you to Anish for his thoughtful gesture. The viewers of ChessBase India will remember the golden stream in pandemic in 2020 where thousands of people gave superchats and Ilamparthi was there on the screen. He was also part of the Super Juniors Cup as a commentator. His "Arey Rook" statement when playing with Samay in a hand and brain game was hilarious and very memorable! On a personal note, you will see one of the pictures of Ilamparthi with Gukesh above. This is taken during February 2023, when Gukesh and Ilamparthi travelled together in a train from Dusseldorf to Hamburg after WR Chess. Ilamparthi was testing Gukesh with some tough studies! While we shot this video, we saw the immense calculating abilities of Ilamparthi. He was able to match Gukesh in many of the calculations! Well, we all know where Gukesh has reached in these last 2.5 years! And we are very sure that Ilamparthi has an extremely bright future ahead of him! #chess #chessbaseindia #ilamparthi

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We understand the push for Zoho to go public. But let me state the reality: Arattai would very likely not have been built by a public company that faces quarter to quarter financial pressure. It was a "hopelessly foolish" project, and even our employees had expressed scepticism that Arattai would ever gain any traction. We built it because we felt we need that kind of engineering capability in Bharat. We need a lot lot more of such capabilities in Bharat and we are on it. We have some very ambitious, long range R&D projects going on in Zoho, including compilers, databases, OS, security, hardware, chip design, robotics (not to mention AI) and on and on. In addition, we have invested in many R&D intensive companies that we know won't make money soon. Zoho is a kind of an industrial research lab that also makes money to fund itself. We essentially ignore short term profits, as long as we don't lose money. And we have a culture of founders and senior executives living frugally, like how good scientists and engineers in ISRO would live. To us that is the essence of Bharat. Japan operated that way when it was developing. Imagine saying all that to Wall Street or Dalal Street!

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