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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Indian chess grandmaster}}<br />
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{{Indian name|Aravindh|Chithambaram}}<br />
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|name = Aravindh Chithambaram<br />
|image= London Chess Classic 2016 Day2-2 (31525646246) (cropped).jpg<br />
|caption = Aravindh Chithambaram in 2016<br />
|country = [[India]]<br />
|birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|11 September 1999}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Thirunagar]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India<br />
|title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (2015)<br />
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|peakrating = 2641 (March 2020)<br />
|FideID = 5072786<br />
|ranking = No. 118 (January 2021)<br />
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'''Aravindh Chithambaram''' (born 11 September 1999) is an Indian [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]]. He won the [[Indian Chess Championship|Indian chess championships]] twice, in 2018 and 2019.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Aravindh was born in [[Thirunagar]]<ref>[http://ratings.fide.com/crt/main223095.pdf IM title application] (PDF). FIDE.</ref><ref>[http://ratings.fide.com/crt/main223721.pdf GM title application] (PDF). FIDE.</ref> in 1999. His father died when he was three and his mother worked as a [[Life Insurance Corporation]] agent to support the family. He learned to play chess at the age of seven from his paternal grandfather, who introduced him to the game in an attempt to quell his desires to constantly leave the house and play [[cricket]] with other boys.<ref name=Firstpost2013>{{cite web|url =http://www.firstpost.com/blogs/meet-indias-newest-chess-star-aravind-chithambaram-1255161.html|title =Meet India's newest chess star Aravind Chithambaram|first =Abhijeet|last =Kulkarni|website =Firstpost|date =29 November 2013}}</ref><br />
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==Chess career==<br />
Aravindh won the Indian U19 Chess Championship at the age of 12. He competed in the [[World Youth Chess Championship#Boys & Girls|World U14 Chess Championship]] in 2012, placing second to [[Kayden Troff]].<ref name=TheHindu/><br />
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He won his first major tournament in 2013 when he scored 9/11 for a {{chessgloss|performance rating}} of 2728 at the Chennai Grandmaster International Open, defeating four [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmasters]] and two [[international master]]s in the process.<ref name=Firstpost2013/> This result earned him his first grandmaster [[norm (chess)|norm]]; at the time he had not achieved any of his international master norms.<ref name=TheHindu>{{cite web|url =http://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/aravindh-chithambaram-an-exciting-prospect/article5398396.ece|title =Aravindh Chithambaram: An exciting prospect|first =P. K. Ajith|last =Kumar|website =The Hindu|date =28 November 2013}}</ref><br />
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He earned his international master title in 2014 and his grandmaster title in 2015.<ref>[https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=5072786&title=IM&pb=39 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting, Khanty-Mansiysk, RUS, 29 March - 1 April 2014] FIDE</ref><ref>[https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=5072786&title=GM&pb=42 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting, 26-29 April 2015, Chengdu, CHN] FIDE</ref><br />
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In February 2018, he participated in the [[Aeroflot Open]]. He finished twenty-sixth out of ninety-two,<ref>{{cite web|url =http://www.chess-results.com/tnr322070.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9|title =Aeroflot Open 2018 A|author =Staff writer(s)|publisher =Chess Results|date =28 February 2018}}</ref> scoring 5/9 (+3–2=4).<ref>{{cite web|url =http://www.chess-results.com/tnr322070.aspx?lan=1&art=9&fed=IND&snr=25|title =Aeroflot Open 2018 A: Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.|author =Staff writer(s)|publisher =Chess Results|date =28 February 2018}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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