Misplaced Pages

Pranav Anand

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Indian chess grandmaster (born 2006) Not to be confused with Pranav V. In this Indian name, the name Anand is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Pranav.
Pranav Anand
CountryIndia
Born (2006-11-03) November 3, 2006 (age 18)
Tiruchirappalli, India
TitleGrandmaster (2022)
FIDE rating2538 (January 2025)
Peak rating2552 (August 2024)

Pranav Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Career

In September 2022, Pranav won the U16 section of the World Youth Chess Championship. He also crossed the 2500 rating mark during the event, securing the Grandmaster title.

In July 2023, Pranav won the Rapid portion of the Biel Chess Festival with an undefeated score of 8/9 ahead of Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux and Marco Materia, who both scored 7.5/9.

In September 2023, Pranav was leading the World Junior Chess Championship after defeating Kirk Ghazarian in the 6th round.

References

  1. "FIDE Title Application (GM)" (PDF).
  2. Cyriac, Biju (September 17, 2022). "Pranav Anand emerges world U-16 champ, becomes GM".
  3. Arora, Sumit (September 17, 2022). "15 year old Pranav Anand becomes India's 76th Chess Grandmaster".
  4. Ahmed, Shahid (July 17, 2023). "Pranav Anand dominates 56th Biel Chess Festival Rapid Open 2023".
  5. Ahmed, Shahid (September 27, 2023). "World Junior 2023 R6: Dushyant and Pranav Anand in a six-pack lead".
Indian Grandmasters
Categories: