Bharath Subramaniyam
Bharath with his first GM norm
CountryIndia
Born (2007-10-17) 17 October 2007
Chennai, India
TitleGrandmaster (2022)
FIDE rating2504 (December 2023)
Peak rating2517 (December 2022)

Bharath Subramaniyam (born 17 October 2007) is an Indian chess player holding the title of grandmaster.

Chess career

He learned chess at the age of five years from his father Harishankkar. Starting from 2014, he attended the "Chess Gurukul" school in Chennai, having GM Ramachandran Ramesh as his main teacher. From March 2019, Bharath also started attending training sessions by GM Alexander Goloshchapov. The sessions were useful in improving his positional play and helped him to reach his norms faster. In January 2020, Bharath was selected for a special training camp sponsored by Microsense networks conducted by former World champion GM Vladimir Kramnik and former World chess challenger GM Boris Gelfand. Bharath is currently training with Indian chess Grandmaster Shyam Sundar.

He completed his 3rd IM norm in June 2019, at the age of 11 years and 8 months.[1] The title was officially ratified by FIDE in September of the same year.[2]

In January 2022 Bharath earned his third and final GM norm to become India's 73rd grandmaster at the age of 14, by scoring 7.5/9 at the Vergani Cup Open in Cattolica, Italy, and raising his live rating above 2500.[3][4] As of August 15, 2023, he is the youngest Indian grandmaster.

Main results

  • 2015 – in August he wins at Suwon (Korea) the Asian Youth Championship in the Under-8 section.[5]
    In November he wins the World Youth Championship Under-8 at Porto Carras in Greece with 9,5/ 11;[6]
  • 2017 – in August he places 4th in the World Youth Championship Under-10 at Pocos de Caldas in Brazil.[7]
  • 2019 – in January he places 4th in the blitz section of the Roquetas de Mar Chess Festival.
  • 2019 - In June he achieves his final IM norm in Goa open and becomes International master.[8]
  • 2020 – in February he places 11th at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow with 5,5/ 9, ahead of 54 Grandmasters[9][10] and getting his first GM norm with a rating performance greater than 2700.[11]
  • 2021 – in October he is placed 4th (tied for 3rd) at the Junior Rountable Under 21 tournament in Bulgaria with 6.5/9. He made his 2nd GM norm.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Bharath Subramaniyam - IM at the age of 11 years and 8 months on chessbase.india
  2. ↑ 3rd quarter PB 2019, 7-8 September, Budapest, HUN, on ratings.fide.com
  3. ↑ Bharath Subramaniyam becomes India's 73rd chess GM, Hindustan Times, 10 January 2022, retrieved 10 January 2022
  4. ↑ "Viswanathan Anand lauds Bharath Subramaniyam as teenager becomes India's 73rd Grandmaster", The Times of India, 10 January 2022, retrieved 10 January 2022
  5. ↑ Asian Youth Chess Championship-2015 (Under-8) on chess-results.com
  6. ↑ World Youth Ch 2015 - Open under 08 on chess-results.com
  7. ↑ World Cadets Chess Championship 2017 U10 on chess-results.com
  8. ↑ "Bharath Subramaniyam - IM at the age of 11 years and 8 months - ChessBase India". 13 July 2019.
  9. ↑ He won with four Grandmasters: Gabriel Sargissian, Maksim Chigaev, Zhou Jianchao and Mikhail Antipov.
  10. ↑ "Bharath Subramaniyam posts win over GM Gabriel Sargissian (Elo 2689)". Times of India. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  11. ↑ Final Standings of Aeroflot Open-A, 2020 on chess-results.com
  12. ↑ Final standings in Junior Under 21, Bulgaria on chess-results.com
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