Chess prodigyV Pranav becomes India’s 75th Grandmasterby winning a event in Romania
Chess sensation V Pranav becomes India’s 75th Grandmaster Chess sensation V Pranav on Sunday bagged the title of Grand Master by winning Limpedea Open in Baia Mare, Romania. 16- time-old came India’s 75th Grand Master and 27th from Tamil Nadu. Check Complete Details Then.
Chess sensation V Pranav becomes India’s 75th Grandmaster Chess sensation V Pranav on Sunday came India’s 75th Grand Master by winning Limpedea Open in Baia Mare, Romania. The 16 time old Pranav secured his 3rd and final norm to come Grandmaster by winning the Limpedea Open in Baia Mare, Romania. Pranav finished the Romanian event with 7 points out of 9 to meet the GM norm conditions.
Previous to Romania, Pranav had attained his demoiselle GM norm at the age of 15 by winning Serbia Open in 2021, while the alternate GM norm came from Vezerkepzo GM round- robin competition in Budapest, Hungary in June 2022. Speaking to news agency PTI from Baia Mare, Pranav said that" It's a great feeling( to be a Grandmaster). It'll boost my confidence to ameliorate further and reach the top position,"
Pranav is a pupil of Velammal academy grounded in Chennai and has been a three- time State Champion. In addition to this, he has also won a Citation order at the World Rapid Event 2021.
V Pranav becomes 27th Grandmaster from Tamil Nadu
With his palm in Romania, V Pranav came the 27th Grandmaster from Tamil Nadu. With his rearmost achievement, Pranav now joins the league of fabulous Chess players from the state including Viswanathan Anand and teen sensations D Gukesh and R Praggnanandhaa among others. Tamil Nadu is nearly followed by Maharashtra with 10 Grandmasters and West Bengal with 9.
Chess Grandmasters from India-State-wise List
Name | State |
M. R. Lalith Babu | Andhra Pradesh |
Harika Dronavalli | Andhra Pradesh |
PentalaHarikrishna | Andhra Pradesh |
Koneru Humpy | Andhra Pradesh |
Karthik Venkataraman | Andhra Pradesh |
Aryan Chopra | Delhi |
Sahaj Grover | Delhi |
Abhijeet Gupta | Delhi |
Prithu Gupta | Delhi |
Sriram Jha | Delhi |
Parimarjan Negi | Delhi |
Vaibhav Suri | Delhi |
Leon Luke Mendonca | Goa |
Anurag Mhamal | Goa |
TejasBakre | Gujarat |
Ankit Rajpara | Gujarat |
Himanshu Sharma | Haryana |
Stany G.A. | Karnataka |
Girish A. Koushik | Karnataka |
M. S. Thejkumar | Karnataka |
Geetha Narayanan Gopal | Kerala |
S. L. Narayanan | Kerala |
Nihal Sarin | Kerala |
Swapnil Dhopade | Maharashtra |
ShardulGagare | Maharashtra |
ViditGujrathi | Maharashtra |
Akshayraj Kore | Maharashtra |
Abhijit Kunte | Maharashtra |
Abhimanyu Puranik | Maharashtra |
RaunakSadhwani | Maharashtra |
Praveen Thipsay | Maharashtra |
Sankalp Gupta | Maharashtra |
Harshit Raja | Maharashtra |
Debashis Das | Odisha |
Swayams Mishra | Odisha |
Baskaran Adhiban | Tamil Nadu |
G. Akash | Tamil Nadu |
Viswanathan Anand | Tamil Nadu |
Chithambaram Aravindh | Tamil Nadu |
J. Deepan Chakkravarthy | Tamil Nadu |
Gukesh D | Tamil Nadu |
P. Iniyan | Tamil Nadu |
Ashwin Jayaram | Tamil Nadu |
PriyadharshanKannappan | Tamil Nadu |
P. Karthikeyan | Tamil Nadu |
Sundararajan Kidambi | Tamil Nadu |
R. R. Laxman | Tamil Nadu |
Karthikeyan Murali | Tamil Nadu |
Srinath Narayanan | Tamil Nadu |
Magesh Chandran Panchanathan | Tamil Nadu |
RameshbabuPraggnanandhaa | Tamil Nadu |
Subramanian Arun Prasad | Tamil Nadu |
V. Vishnu Prasanna | Tamil Nadu |
Ramachandran Ramesh | Tamil Nadu |
Krishnan Sasikiran | Tamil Nadu |
S. P. Sethuraman | Tamil Nadu |
M. Shyam Sundar | Tamil Nadu |
M. R. Venkatesh | Tamil Nadu |
N. R. Visakh | Tamil Nadu |
Arjun Kalyan | Tamil Nadu |
Bharath Subramaniyam | Tamil Nadu |
Harsha Bharathakoti | Telangana |
Arjun Erigaisi | Telangana |
Raja Rithvik R. | Telangana |
Rahul Srivatshav | Telangana |
Dibyendu Barua | West Bengal |
Sandipan Chanda | West Bengal |
Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury | West Bengal |
Neelotpal Das | West Bengal |
Surya Shekhar Ganguly | West Bengal |
Diptayan Ghosh | West Bengal |
Saptarshi Roy | West Bengal |
Deep Sengupta | West Bengal |
Mitrabha Guha | West Bengal |
