Susanto Megaranto

{{short description|Indonesian chess grandmaster (born 1987)}} {{Infobox chess biography | name = Susanto Megaranto | image = Megaranto susanto 20081119 olympiade dresden.jpg | caption = Susanto Megaranto in 2008 | full_name =  | country = Indonesia | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1987|10|8|df=yes}} | birth_place = Cirebon, Indonesia | title = Grandmaster (2004) | peakrating = 2569 (October 2007) | FideID = 7101384 }}

'''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>{{cite web |url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=37063 |title=Tournament report January 2004: SEA Games Men - Vietnam |publisher=FIDE |accessdate=25 May 2010}}</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>{{cite web |url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic528.html#16 |title=TWIC 528: Singapore International Chess Convention |last=Crowther |first=Mark |date=2004-12-20 |publisher=London Chess Center |accessdate=25 May 2010}}</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>{{cite web |url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4883 |title=5th Dato' Arthur Tan Open – Li Chao wins again |last=Lam Choong Wai |first=Edwin |date=2008-09-02 |publisher=ChessBase |accessdate=26 May 2010}}</ref> and tied for 3rd-6th with Nguyen Anh Dung, Irwanto Sadikin and Magesh Chandran Panchanathan in the Kuala Lumpur Open.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=17070 |title=Tournament report April 2009: KL Open 2008 - Malaysia |publisher=World Chess Federation |accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref> He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, where he was eliminated in the first round by Lê Quang Liêm.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/fide-world-cup-khanty-mansiysk-2011 |title=The Week in Chess: FIDE World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk 2011 |last=Crowther |first=Mark |date=2011-09-21 |publisher=London Chess Center |accessdate=14 November 2011 |archive-date=2011-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020150713/http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/fide-world-cup-khanty-mansiysk-2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2015, he won the first Asian University Chess Championship, which was held in Beijing.<ref>{{cite web |author=Liang Ziming |title=Megaranto, Ni Shiqun dominate Asian University Ch. |url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/megaranto-ni-shiqun-dominate-asian-university-ch |publisher=ChessBase |date=2015-10-25 |accessdate=23 March 2016}}</ref><ref>[http://chess-results.com/tnr191688.aspx?lan=16&art=1&rd=9&wi=821 1st Asian University Chess Championship Men's group]. ''chess-results.com''.</ref>

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