Atulya Shetty


Atulya Arya Shetty is an American chess International Master from Michigan. He was the United States Chess Federation K-12 national champion in 2013. He was on the cover of the June 2013 Chess Life, the official magazine of the US Chess Federation. He was the US amateur team champion in 2012. He has played youth chess championships in Greece and the Republic of Georgia.
His father Sharat Shetty, who develops Software for Ford, played chess in India as a child. Atulya Shetty started playing chess when he was four. Atulya Shetty's current coach is Grandmaster Gregory Kaidanov, formerly of the Soviet Union who now lives in Kentucky.