Shiyamalen Thavandiran is a Canadian

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player.

Chess career

He started playing chess at the age of 7. He placed 4th in the World U10 Championships and became the youngest Canadian junior champion at the age of 12. In January 2012, he won the Canadian University Championship, which helped his University of Western Ontario team (

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, Raja Panjwani, and Justin McDonald) to the championship. He won the

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in April 2024, during which he went undefeated and achieved wins against other strong players such as Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux, Raja Panjwani,

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, and grandmaster

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. In September 2024, he represented the country at the

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, where he defeated the higher-rated grandmasters Štěpán Žilka and Trần Tuấn Minh in the third and last rounds, respectively.

Personal life

Off the chessboard, he works as a machine learning engineer at RBC.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thavandiran, Shiyam Living people 1992 births Canadian chess players Chess players from Toronto Chess International Masters University of Western Ontario alumni Chess Olympiad competitors Canadian sportspeople of Indian descent