Susanto Megaranto

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Susanto Megaranto : biography

8 October 1987 –

Susanto Megaranto (born 8 October 1987) is an Indonesian chess Grandmaster.

He became the youngest Indonesian GM ever at 17, beating out Utut Adianto’s record by four years.

In 2004 he tied for 2nd-3rd with Eugenio Torre in the SEA Games in Vietnam. In the same year he tied for first with Mark Paragua in the Singapore Masters Open and won the event on tie-break. 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 and tied for 3rd-6th with Nguyen Anh Dung, Sadikin Irwanto and Magesh Chandran Panchanathan in the Kuala Lumpur Open. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, but was eliminated in the first round by Le Quang Liem.

On the July 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2534.