| Baskaran Adhiban | |
|---|---|
 Adhiban playing at the 2013 Chess World Cup | |
| Country | India |
| Born | 15 August 1992 Miladuthurai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Title | Grandmaster (2010) |
| FIDE rating | 2660 (June 2021) |
| Peak rating | 2701 (April 2019) |
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Representing  India | ||
| Asian Games | ||
 | 2010 Guangzhou | Men's Team |
Baskaran Adhiban (born 15 August 1992 in Mayiladuthurai) [1] is an Indian chess Grandmaster. He was the 2008 World Under-16 Champion and the 2009 Indian champion. He is currently the fourth highest rated player in India (behind Viswanathan Anand, Pentala Harikrishna and Vidit Gujrathi). He is widely known as the 'Beast' due to his hyper aggressive style of play. [2]
In 2007 he won the Asian under-16 championship in Tashkent. [3] Adhiban played on the first board for the gold medal-winning Indian team at the Under-16 Chess Olympiad of 2007 and 2008. [4] [5]
In 2011, he won the Cultural Village tournament in Wijk aan Zee and thanks to this victory he qualified for the 2012 Tata Steel C tournament. [6] In this latter event, he tied for 3rd–4th with Daan Brandenburg with a score of 8.5/13. [7] In the Chess World Cup 2013, Adhiban caused an upset in the first two rounds, beating 2710-rated Russian GM Evgeny Alekseev in the first round, and Alexandr Fier in the second one.
Adhiban won the 2013 Sants Open in Barcelona with a score of 8.5 points out of 10. This event included 23 GMs and 28 IMs. [8] [9]
In July 2014 he won the Masters open tournament of the Biel Chess Festival. [10] In the following month, he contributed to India's bronze medal at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø scoring 7/11 on board four. [11]
He was also a member of the winning team of the Spanish League 2015, Solvay, along with teammates Pentala Harikrishna, Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Aleksander Delchev, Sergio Cacho Reigadas, Jesus Maria De La Villa Garcia, and Elizbar Ubilava. [12] [13]
Adhiban competed in the Chess World Cup 2015, where he was knocked out by Vladimir Fedoseev in the first round, after the rapid tiebreaks. [14]
In January 2016, Adhiban won the 2016 Tata Steel Challengers Tournament in a 3-way tie. The co-leaders were GM Alexei Dreev and GM Eltaj Safarli, all of whom earned 9 points out of 13 (+6-1=6). Because Adhiban defeated them both, he had the better tiebreaks and was therefore awarded the spot in the next Tata Steel Masters tournament.
Despite being the lowest rated player at the 2017 Tata Steel Masters Tournament, he managed to finish third with a score of 7.5 points out of 13 (+4-2=7). He defeated Sergey Karjakin, Dmitry Andreikin, Richárd Rapport, and Radosław Wojtaszek.
Adhiban won the 2018 Reykjavik Open, [15] scoring 7½/9 (+6–0=3). He recorded victories over Alejandro Ramírez, Maxime Lagarde and Richárd Rapport. [16]
He also runs a YouTube channel named Adhiban Baskaran with over 43.3k subscribers as of April 2021. He organizes chess streams on his YouTube channel with Grandmasters and shares knowledge about various aspects and tactics of Chess.
