CHESS PLAYER

Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa

2005 - Today

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Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, Praggnanandhaa placed second in the 2023 Chess World Cup, and is the only Indian to have won the Tata Steel Chess Tournament after Viswanathan Anand. He was also part of the Indian team that won the silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games in the men's team competition, and the gold medal in the open section at the 45th Chess Olympiad in 2024. In June 2025, he would sign for esports club Team Liquid. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is the 218th most popular chess player (up from 395th in 2019), the 867th most popular biography from India (up from 1,504th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa ranks 218 out of 461. Before him are Ľubomír Ftáčnik, John Owen, Anatoly Lein, Paul Felix Schmidt, Larissa Volpert, and Ruslan Ponomariov. After him are John Nunn, Aleksandar Matanović, Roberto Grau, Xie Jun, Viktor Kupreichik, and Tony Miles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 2005, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa ranks 6. Before him are Leonor, Princess of Asturias, IShowSpeed, Arda Güler, Prince Christian of Denmark, and Oliver Bearman. After him are Kenan Yıldız, Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Vitor Roque, Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, Noah Jupe, and Dipangkorn Rasmijoti.

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In India

Among people born in India, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa ranks 867 out of 1,861. Before him are Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918), George Fernandes (1930), Soumitra Chatterjee (1935), Simon Pimenta (1920), Neerja Bhanot (1963), and Michael Bates (1920). After him are Shatrughan Sinha (1945), Yash (1986), Juhi Chawla (1967), Mammootty (1951), Kirron Kher (1955), and Arjun Kapoor (1985).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In India

Among chess players born in India, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa ranks 3. Before him are Viswanathan Anand (1969), and Humpy Koneru (1987). After him are Pentala Harikrishna (1986), Harika Dronavalli (1991), Vidit Gujrathi (1994), R Vaishali (2001), Gukesh D (2006), Tania Sachdev (1986), Krishnan Sasikiran (1981), Yuzvendra Chahal (1990), and Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (1979).

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