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Parimarjan Negi (born 9 February 1993) is an Indian chess grandmaster.He is a close relative of Lakshya Negi and learnt most of the skills from him. He achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 20 days, which made him the second youngest grandmaster in history at the time.
The list of top 10 active junior (under the age of 20 as of 1 January of that year) players as of December 2023. The top 100 junior players of the world include 20 Indian players, among them Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu at Rank 2, Arjun Erigaisi at Rank 5, Gukesh D at rank 6, and Nihal Sarin at Rank 8. [7] The top 100 junior girl players of the ...
Chess in India. Chess has risen in popularity in India in the last few decades primarily due to chess Grandmaster and former 5-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand. It is believed that chess originated from Chaturanga of ancient India. The All India Chess Federation is the governing body for chess in India.
Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is an Indian chess grandmaster.One of the most successful and decorated Indian chess players, he achieved a peak world ranking of 10 in November 2016, and a peak ELO rating of 2770 in December 2016.
Praggnanandhaa (right) pictured with his mother, Nagalakshmi (left).. Praggnanandhaa was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on 10 August 2005. [4] His father, Rameshbabu, works as a branch manager at TNSC Bank, [5] and his mother, Nagalakshmi, is a homemaker who often accompanies Praggnanandhaa when he travels for tournaments. [6]
Ian Nepomniachtchi. Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi (Russian: Ян Алекса́ндрович Непо́мнящий, romanized: Yan Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchiy, IPA: [ˈjan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈpomnʲɪɕːɪj] ⓘ; born 14 July 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Nepomniachtchi won the 2010 and 2020 Russian Superfinal and ...
The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess World Cup tournament. It was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 26 August and 21 September 2011, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. [1] The Cup winner Peter Svidler, along with second placed Alexander Grischuk and third placed Vassily Ivanchuk, qualified for the Candidates stage of the World ...
Srinath Narayanan was born and brought up in Chennai. He started playing chess when he was just five years old. In 2002, at the tender age of 8, he became India's youngest FIDE rated player, with an initial rating of 2088. [2] In July 2005, he took the gold medal in the U12 division at the World Youth Chess Championships held in Belfort, France ...