Dharshan Kumaran

English chess grandmaster

Dharshan Kumaran
CountryEngland
Born (1975-06-07) 7 June 1975 (age 48)
TitleGrandmaster (1997)
FIDE rating2505 (May 2024)
Peak rating2505 (January 1995)

Dharshan Kumaran (born 7 June 1975) is an English chess grandmaster who has retired from ranked tournaments and is a neuroscience researcher collaborating with leaders in that field.[1] He won the World Under-12 Championship in 1986, won the World Under-16 Championship in 1991. He finished 3rd equal in the World Under-20 Championship in 1994 and competed in the highest level competitions as recently as 2001.

He works as a neuroscientist, specialising in research at DeepMind, an inter-body collaboration led by University College London.[2] He has authored (mostly co-authored) 75 articles in this field as noted in Google scholar's library of papers in neuroscience (between 2003 and 2022).[2] The most cited of these, namely by more than 20,000 articles, is '"Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning" which he co-authored in 2015 with others including V Mnih, K Kavukcuoglu, D Silver, AA Rusu, J Veness and MG Bellemare, a 4-page article in Nature in 2015.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Kumaran, Dharshan FIDE Chess Profile". FIDE. 17 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Dharshan Kumaran Google Scholar Profile

External links

  • Dharshan Kumaran player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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