Sundararajan Kidambi is an Indian
chess
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grandmaster.
Career
He is India's 19th Grandmaster, and trained with top grandmaster
Krishnan Sasikiran
Krishnan Sasikiran (Tamil: கிருஷ்ணன் சசிகிரண்; born 7 January 1981) is an Indian chess grandmaster.
He was one of Viswanathan Anand's seconds in the World Chess Championship 2013.
Chess career
Born in Madra ...
. Sundararajan achieved his GM norms at the:
*Canadian Open International Chess Tournament in July 2005
*Badalona International Open in August 2008
*Dubai Open in May 2009
In June 2017, he was held to draw by Anup Deshmukh in the Catalan Chess Circuit in Montcada, Spain.
In October 2018, he held
Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. He was the World Chess Champion#Split title (1993–2006), Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the 14th undisputed World Ch ...
(who was rated over 300 points higher) to a draw in first round of the Isle of Man International Tournament.
In October 2019, he finished in joint seventh place at the Liffré International Open in France with a score of 6/9.
References
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Living people
1982 births
Indian chess players
Chess Grandmasters
Sportspeople from Chennai