Siddharth Jagadeesh | |
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Country | Singapore |
Born | 2007 (age 17–18) Chandigarh, India |
Title | Grandmaster (2024) [1] |
FIDE rating | 2515 (January 2025) |
Peak rating | 2525 (June 2024) |
Siddharth Jagadeesh is a Singaporean chess grandmaster.
In March 2024, he tied for first place with Aravindh Chithambaram and Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera at the La Roda Open. He ultimately finished the tournament in second place due to tiebreaks. [2]
In May 2024, he scored his final GM norm at the Sharjah Masters after defeating Andrey Esipenko in the eighth round. With this, he became Singapore's youngest grandmaster. [3]
His father Jagadeesh Balakrishnan has contributed to a ChessBase India Foundation scholarship for Indian chess. [4]
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