Parimarjan Negi won the under 10 division at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in 2002 in
Tehran. He achieved his first grandmaster
norm at the 2005/06
Hastings International Chess Congress. Soon after he earned his second GM norm at the 4th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament in Delhi. Negi earned his third and final GM norm on 1 July 2006 by drawing with Russian Grandmaster
Ruslan Shcherbakov 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
Pentala Harikrishna's record, and the second youngest ever in the world. Negi won the strong
Philadelphia International Open Tournament in June 2008 with a score of 7/9, and was undefeated. In August 2008, he finished second, behind
Abhijeet Gupta, at the
World Junior Chess Championship in
Gaziantep. In 2009 he won the
Politiken Cup in
Copenhagen with 8.5/10, on tiebreaks over
Boris Avrukh, and the 6th IGB
Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open in
Kuala Lumpur. Parimarjan Negi won the 48th
National Premier Chess Championship on 22 December 2010 in New Delhi. In 2012 Negi won the 11th
Asian Chess Championship held in
Ho Chi Minh City. He tied for first place in the
Cappelle-la-Grande Open in 2012 and 2013. In 2013, he also won the Politiken Cup for the second time. By 2017 he had retired from chess. ==Books==