Aravindh Chithambaram Explained

Aravindh Chithambaram
Full Name:Aravindh Chithambaram Veerappan
Country:India
Birth Place:Thirunagar, Tamil Nadu, India
Grandmaster (2015)
Peakrating:2703 (July 2024)
Peakranking:No. 29 (July 2024)
Fideid:5072786

Aravindh Chithambaram Veerappan (born 11 September 1999) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He won the Indian chess championships twice, in 2018 and 2019.

Personal life

Aravindh was born in Thirunagar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu[1] [2] in 1999. His father died when he was three and his mother worked as a Life Insurance Corporation agent to support the family. He learned to play chess at the age of seven from his paternal grandfather, who introduced him to the game in an attempt to quell his desires to constantly leave the house and play cricket with other boys.[3]

Chess career

Aravindh won the Indian U19 Chess Championship at the age of 12. He competed in the World U14 Chess Championship in 2012, placing second to Kayden Troff.

He won his first major tournament in 2013 when he scored 9/11 for a of 2728 at the Chennai Grandmaster International Open, defeating four grandmasters and two international masters in the process.[3] This result earned him his first grandmaster norm; at the time he had not achieved any of his international master norms.[4]

He earned his international master title in 2014 and his grandmaster title in 2015.[5] [6]

In February 2018, he participated in the Aeroflot Open. He finished twenty-sixth out of ninety-two,[7] scoring 5/9 (+3–2=4).[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: IM title application . . family name: Veerappan / first name: Aravindh Chithambaram / date of birth: 11.09.1999 / place of birth: Thirunagar.
  2. Web site: GM title application . . family name: Veerappan / first name: Aravindh Chithambaram / date of birth: 15th September, 1999 / place of birth: Thirunagar, Tamilnadu, India.
  3. Web site: Meet India's newest chess star Aravind Chithambaram . Abhijeet . Kulkarni . Firstpost . 29 November 2013.
  4. Web site: Aravindh Chithambaram: An exciting prospect . P. K. Ajith . Kumar . The Hindu . 28 November 2013.
  5. https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=5072786&title=IM&pb=39 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting, Khanty-Mansiysk, RUS, 29 March - 1 April 2014
  6. https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=5072786&title=GM&pb=42 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting, 26-29 April 2015, Chengdu, CHN
  7. Web site: Aeroflot Open 2018 A . Staff writer(s) . Chess Results . 28 February 2018.
  8. Web site: Aeroflot Open 2018 A: Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. . Staff writer(s) . Chess Results . 28 February 2018.