Pranav Anand

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Pranav Anand
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Personal information
Born (2006-11-03) 3 November 2006 (age 18)
Tiruchirappalli, India
Chess career
Country India
Title Grandmaster (2022) [1]
FIDE   rating 2581 (October 2025)
Peak rating 2603 (September 2025)

Pranav Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Career

In September 2022, Pranav won the U16 section of the World Youth Chess Championship. [2] He also crossed the 2500 rating mark during the event, securing the Grandmaster title. [3]

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. [4]

In September 2023, Pranav was leading the World Junior Chess Championship after defeating Kirk Ghazarian in the 6th round. [5]

In July 2025, Pranav finished at second place in the Biel Masters Open with 7½/10. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "FIDE Title Application (GM)" (PDF).
  2. ↑ Cyriac, Biju (17 September 2022). "Pranav Anand emerges world U-16 champ, becomes GM". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  3. ↑ Arora, Sumit (17 September 2022). "15 year old Pranav Anand becomes India's 76th Chess Grandmaster".
  4. ↑ Ahmed, Shahid (17 July 2023). "Pranav Anand dominates 56th Biel Chess Festival Rapid Open 2023".
  5. ↑ Ahmed, Shahid (27 September 2023). "World Junior 2023 R6: Dushyant and Pranav Anand in a six-pack lead".
  6. ↑ "Karthikeyan Murali convincingly clinches 58th Biel Chess Festival MTO, Pranav Anand second". chessbase.in.
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