Career
Negi played on the top board for the bronze medal-winning Indian team in the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway. Soon after he earned his second General Motors norm at the 4th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament in Delhi. Negi earned his third and final General Motors norm on 1 July 2006 by drawing with Russian Grandmaster Ruslan Sherbakov at the Chelyabinsk Region Superfinal Championship in Satka, Russia, where he finished with six points from nine rounds.
Negi thus became the youngest chess grandmaster ever in India, breaking Pendyala Harikrishna"s record, and the second youngest ever in the world.
In August 2008, he finished second, behind Abhijeet Gupta, at the World Junior Chess Championship in Gazientep. He tied for first place in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open in 2012 and 2013.
In 2014 he started to study at Stanford University.