Career
Rated at 2540 Elo, he is India"s 22nd grandmaster. and is ranked 4th in Indian Chess Championship 2012. In 2010, he tied for the top position with Tigran Gharamian and Vadim Malakhatko at the 24th Open Pierre and Vacances, thereby completing his Grandmaster Title. In 2011 he tied for 2nd–7th with Maxim Turov, Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Krisztian Szabo, Lev Gutman, David Berczes and Samuel Shankland in the ZMDI Schachfestival in Dresden.
He works for the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India.
He has an elder brother named Pratik Sengupta who plays chess as well.