BCN wishes Happy Birthday to GM Dharshan Kumaran (07-vi-1975)

His highest Elo rating was 2505 in January 1995 at the age of 20.

From Wikipedia :

Dharshan Kumaran (born 7 June 1975) is an English chess grandmaster.[1] He won the World Under-12 Championship in 1986, the World Under-16 Championship in 1991, and finished 3rd equal in the World Under-20 Championship in 1994. He currently works as a neuroscience research scientist at DeepMind.[2]

[pgn]
[Event “Dublin zt”]
[Site “Dublin”]
[Date “1993.??.??”]
[Round “8”]
[White “Kumaran, Dharshan”]
[Black “Miles, Anthony John”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “D02”]
[WhiteElo “2385”]
[BlackElo “2565”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “29”]
[EventDate “1993.04.??”]
[EventType “swiss”]
[EventRounds “11”]
[EventCountry “IRL”]
[SourceTitle “CBM 034 Extra”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “1993.07.01”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “1993.07.01”]
[SourceQuality “1”]

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329,796,828,29993,29994,29995,29996,29997,29998]} 1. d4 Nc6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 Bg4
4. Bg2 Qd7 5. c4 e6 6. O-O O-O-O 7. Nc3 dxc4 8. Qa4 {[#]} Bb4 $4 (8… Kb8 9.
Rd1 Bxf3 10. Bxf3 Nb4 11. Qa5 Nf6 $11) 9. Ne5 $1 Nxe5 10. Qxa7 c6 11. Bf4 $18
Bd6 12. Qa8+ Kc7 {[#]} 13. Nb5+ $1 Kb6 14. Qa7+ Kxb5 15. a4+ 1-0
[/pgn]