Ashwin Jayaram | |
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Country | India |
Born | Aluva, India | 14 August 1990
Title | Grandmaster (2015) [1] |
FIDE rating | 2471 (July 2025) |
Peak rating | 2515 (September 2015) |
Ashwin Jayaram is an Indian chess grandmaster.
Ashwin began playing chess at the age of 8. [2] He was trained by K Ganesan. [3]
He achieved his three GM norms from 2007 to 2009, winning the Asian Junior Chess Championship twice. [3] In 2014, he moved to St Louis, Missouri. [2] In 2015, he surpassed the 2500 rating mark, achieving the Grandmaster title. [3]
He studied finance at Webster University and played on their "B" chess team alongside Manuel León Hoyos, Vasif Durarbayli, and Priyadharshan Kannappan. [4] [5]