He has participated many times in the
Indian Chess Championship, winning two gold medals (1997, 2000) and four bronze medals (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005). He won the
British Chess Championship at Edinburgh in 2003, and two medals in the
Commonwealth Chess Championship (took 2nd, behind
Krishnan Sasikiran, at Sangli 2000, and 3rd at Mumbai 2003,
Nguyen Anh Dung won off contest). Kunte has represented India four times at
Chess Olympiads (1998–2004), and won seven medals in the
Asian Team Chess Championship (team bronze medal in 1999, two team and individual silver medals in 2003, team gold and bronze individual medals in 2005, team silver and individual bronze medals in 2008). In 2000, he played in the
Single-elimination tournament for the
World Chess Championship (New Delhi/Tehran) where he lost a knockout match to
Gilberto Milos. In 2007, he took the bronze medal at Cebu City's
Asian Chess Championship (
Zhang Pengxiang was the winner), and played in the
Chess World Cup 2007 (Khanty-Mansiysk) where he lost a knockout match to
Vadim Zviagintsev). He won or shared 1st at Kolkata (Calcutta) 1998, Blackpool 2003, Kolkata 2004, New Delhi 2005, Guelph 2005, Kitchener 2006 and Mumbai (Bombay) 2008. He was awarded the
Grandmaster title in 2000. ==References==