Susanto Megaranto

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. He graduated from Gunadarma University.

Career

In 2004 he tied for 2nd-3rd with Eugenio Torre in the SEA Games in Vietnam.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In the same year he tied for first with Mark Paragua in the Singapore Masters Open and won the event on tie-break.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and tied for 3rd-6th with Nguyen Anh Dung, Irwanto Sadikin and Magesh Chandran Panchanathan in the Kuala Lumpur Open.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, where he was eliminated in the first round by Lê Quang Liêm.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2015, he won the first Asian University Chess Championship, which was held in Beijing.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>1st Asian University Chess Championship Men's group. chess-results.com.</ref>

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