Susanto Megaranto is an Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

n chess Grandmaster

International Grandmaster

The title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....

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He became the youngest Indonesian GM ever at 17, beating out Utut Adianto

Utut Adianto

Utut Adianto Wahyuwidayat is an Indonesian chess Grandmaster. He is Indonesia's top-rated player of all-time with an Elo rating of 2548.-Biography:...

's record by four years.

In 2004 he tied for 2nd-3rd with Eugenio Torre

Eugenio Torre

Eugenio Torre is a chess Grandmaster . He is considered the strongest chess player the Philippines has ever produced during the 1980s and 1990s period, following the heels of Fischer-era Filipino chess champions National Master Ramon Lontoc, International Master Renato Naranja, IM Rodolfo Tan...

 in the SEA Games in Vietnam. In the same year he tied for first with Mark Paragua

Mark Paragua

Mark Callano Paragua is a Filipino chess Grandmaster. He was born in the Philippines to Flordeliza Callano and Ricardo Paragua, who is also his coach...

 in the Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

 Masters Open and won the event on tie-break. In 2007 he tied for 3rd-8th with Abhijit Kunte

Abhijit Kunte

Abhijit Kunte is an Indian chess Grandmaster.He has participated many times in the Indian Chess Championship, winning two gold medals and four bronze medals...

, Zhao Jun

Zhao Jun

Zhao Jun is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 2004, he became China's 19th Grandmaster at the age of 17.Zhao Jun plays for Shandong chess club in the China Chess League . He is ranked 11th in China ....

, Wen Yang

Wen Yang (chess player)

Wen Yang is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 2008, he became China's 25th Grandmaster at the age of 19.-World Cup:He qualified for and competed in the Chess World Cup 2007 where he reached Round One, where he was defeated 0.5-1.5 by Zoltán Almási...

, Darwin Laylo

Darwin Laylo

Darwin Laylo is a Filipino chess Grandmaster.Laylo won the Philippine national championship in 2004 and 2006. These wins earned him a place on the Philippine Chess Olympiad teams in the 2004 Calvià Olympiad and in 2006 at Turin....

 and Zhou Jianchao

Zhou Jianchao

Zhou Jianchao is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 2006, he became China's 21st Grandmaster at the age of 17. In March 2009, Zhou became for the first time in his career a player in the world...

 in the Asian Chess Championship

Asian Chess Championship

The 2007 championship was a FIDE Zone 3 qualification event for the 2007 Chess World Cup, the next stage in the 2009 World Chess Championship. Ten players were qualified for the 2007 World Cup: Zhang Pengxiang , Wang Hao , Abhijit Kunte , Zhao Jun , Susanto Megaranto , Wen Yang , Darwin Laylo ,...

. In 2008, he tied for 3rd-7th with Marat Dzhumaev

Marat Dzhumaev

Marat Dzhumaev is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster .Played for Uzbekistan in the Chess Olympiads of 2000 and 2002, in the World Team Chess Championship of 2001 and in the Asian Team Chess Championships of 1999, 2003 and 2008...

, Darwin Laylo

Darwin Laylo

Darwin Laylo is a Filipino chess Grandmaster.Laylo won the Philippine national championship in 2004 and 2006. These wins earned him a place on the Philippine Chess Olympiad teams in the 2004 Calvià Olympiad and in 2006 at Turin....

, Dražen Sermek

Dražen Sermek

Dražen Sermek is a Slovene chess player.Sermek won the Slovenian Chess Championship in 1993 and 1998 and was a member of Slovenia Olympic team in 1994, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.In 2001 he came first in the Pula Open...

 and Ashot Nadanian

Ashot Nadanian

Ashot Nadanian is an Armenian chess International Master , chess theoretician and chess coach....

 in the 5th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Championship in Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...

 and tied for 3rd-6th with Nguyen Anh Dung, Sadikin Irwanto and Magesh Chandran Panchanathan

Magesh Chandran Panchanathan

Magesh Chandran Panchanathan is an Indian chess Grandmaster.In 2003 he won Asian Junior Championship in Sri Lanka. In 2005 he tied for first with Kamil Mitoń in the 33rd World Open, played in Philadelphia over the Independence Day weekend. In the same year he came first in the UTD GM Invitational...

 in the Kuala Lumpur Open. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011

Chess World Cup 2011

The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 26 August and 21 September 2011, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia...

, but was eliminated in the first round by Le Quang Liem

Le Quang Liem

Lê Quang Liêm is a leading Vietnamese chess player. He was the Under-14 World Youth Chess Champion in July 2005. He competed for Vietnam at the Chess Olympiads in 2006 and 2008....

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

External links

• Rating data for Susanto Megaranto