| Shiyam Thavandiran | |
|---|---|
 Thavandiran in 2024 | |
| Country | Canada |
| Born | May 2, 1992 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Title | International Master (2017) |
| FIDE rating | 2410 (November 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2420 (December 2019) |
Shiyamalen Thavandiran is a Canadian chess player.
He started playing chess at the age of 7. [1] He placed 4th in the World U10 Championships and became the youngest Canadian junior champion at the age of 12. [2]
In January 2012, he won the Canadian University Championship, which helped his University of Western Ontario team (Aman Hambleton, Raja Panjwani, and Justin McDonald) to the championship. [3]
He won the Canadian Chess Championship in April 2024, during which he went undefeated and achieved wins against other strong players such as Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux, Raja Panjwani, Nikolay Noritsyn, and grandmaster Bator Sambuev. [4] In September 2024, he represented the country at the 45th Chess Olympiad, where he defeated the higher-rated grandmasters Štěpán Žilka and Trần Tuấn Minh in the third and last rounds, respectively. [5]
Off the chessboard, he works as a machine learning engineer at RBC. [6] [7]
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