[2] In December 2018 he completed his final grand master norm in National Senior Chess Championship, Jammu and became India's fifty-eighth and Karnataka's second grandmaster.

With the regular training under Udupa for first few years Stany kept winning various age category tournaments in Karnataka.

[citation needed] After becoming International Master, Stany started to play in many European tournaments.

[12] Right after that he won Malakoff Open 2016 in Paris ahead of top seed the legendary Evgeny Sveshnikov.

The year 2017 turned out to be very successful for Stany as he started to perform consistently and finished in top 3 in many European Grandmaster tournaments.

[17] He again Successfully defended his title in Sautron International Open 2017 and won the tournament with a round to spare[18] shortly after his return to India from his successful trip Stany had to go through personal tragedy as his father died due to cardiac arrest, Stany later stated that "His only regret was the fact that he could not become a GM when his father was alive".

He finished third in Gujarat International Open where Stany made headlines by scoring 7/7 in which he defeated the top seed of the tournament GM Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine in round 7.

[21] Stany continued his fine form in the National Senior Chess Championship in Jammu in December 2018, and scored his third and Final GrandMaster Norm on Round 9 by making a draw against GM Aravind Chithambaram of Tamil Nadu and thereby completed his Grandmaster title requirements.