Karthikeyan Pandian
Indian chess grandmaster (born 1990)
Karthikeyan Pandian | |
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Country | India |
Born | (1990-06-14) June 14, 1990 (age 34) Chennai, India |
Title | Grandmaster (2019)[1] |
Peak rating | 2507 (March 2017) |
Karthikeyan Pandian (born June 14, 1990) is an Indian chess grandmaster.
Career
In June 2018, Karthikeyan won the Commonwealth Chess Championship, finishing with an undefeated score of 7.5/9.[2]
In November 2018, he achieved his final GM norm at Third Saturday tournament in Novi Sad, Serbia, becoming the 57th grandmaster of India.[3]
In August 2023, he was defeated by Balkishan Anand in the biggest upset of the first round of the Indian National Chess Championship.[4]
He is also a chess coach, and has coached Indian super-grandmaster Gukesh D.[3]
Personal life
Karthikeyan is married to fellow chess player Harini Sankaran.[5] They have a son born in 2015.[3]
References
- ^ "FIDE Title Application (GM)" (PDF).
- ^ "P. Karthikeyan, Tania Sachdev Win Commonwealth Titles". July 9, 2018.
- ^ a b c Shah, Sagar (November 17, 2018). "P. Karthikeyan becomes India's 57th GM".
- ^ Ahmed, Shahid (August 18, 2023). "60th National Championship 2023 R1-2: Balkishan upsets P Karthikeyan".
- ^ Shah, Sagar (December 6, 2018). "Straight from the heart - P. Karthikeyan shares his story of becoming a GM".
External links
- Karthikeyan Pandian rating card at FIDE
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Indian Grandmasters
Chess players for India with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM)
- Abhijeet Gupta
- Abhijit Kunte
- Adhiban Baskaran
- Aditya Mittal
- Aditya Samant
- Akshayraj Kore
- Ankit Rajpara
- Anurag Mhamal
- Aravindh Chithambaram
- Arjun Erigaisi
- Arjun Kalyan
- Aryan Chopra
- Ashwin Jayaram
- Bharath Subramaniyam
- Debashis Das
- Deep Sengupta
- Dibyendu Barua
- Diptayan Ghosh
- G. Akash
- Geetha Narayanan Gopal
- Girish A. Koushik
- Gukesh D
- Harika Dronavalli
- Harsha Bharathakoti
- Harshit Raja
- Himanshu Sharma
- J. Deepan Chakkravarthy
- Karthik Venkataraman
- Karthikeyan Murali
- Karthikeyan Pandian
- Koneru Humpy
- Koustav Chatterjee
- Krishnan Sasikiran
- Laxman Rajaram
- Leon Luke Mendonca
- M. R. Lalith Babu
- Magesh Chandran Panchanathan
- Mitrabha Guha
- Neelotpal Das
- Nihal Sarin
- P. Iniyan
- Parimarjan Negi
- Abhimanyu Puranik
- Pentala Harikrishna
- Pranav Anand
- Pranav V
- Pranesh M
- Pravin Thipsay
- Prithu Gupta
- Priyadharshan Kannappan
- Prraneeth Vuppala
- Rahul Srivatshav Peddi
- Raja Rithvik R
- Ramachandran Ramesh
- Raunak Sadhwani
- R Praggnanandhaa
- R Vaishali
- S. L. Narayanan
- S. P. Sethuraman
- Sahaj Grover
- Sandipan Chanda
- Sankalp Gupta
- Saptarshi Roy
- Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury
- Sayantan Das
- Shardul Gagare
- Shyaam Nikhil P
- Shyam Sundar M.
- Srinath Narayanan
- Sriram Jha
- Stany G.A.
- Subramanian Arun Prasad
- Sundararajan Kidambi
- Surya Shekhar Ganguly
- Swapnil Dhopade
- Swayams Mishra
- Tejas Bakre
- Thejkumar M. S.
- Vaibhav Suri
- Venkatesh M. R.
- Vidit Gujrathi
- Vignesh N. R.
- Visakh N. R.
- Vishnu Prasanna V.
- Viswanathan Anand
- See also: List of chess grandmasters
- List of Indian chess players § Grandmasters
- Chess in India
- Category:Indian chess players