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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian chess grandmaster (born 2003)}}<br />
{{Indian patronymic|Raahul|Vijayakumar S}}<br />
{{Infobox chess player<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|2003|2|9}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Chennai]], India<br />
| title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (2025)<br />
| peakrating = 2478 (January 2022)<br />
| FideID = 25035525<br />
}}<br />
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'''Raahul Vijayakumar S''' is an Indian [[chess]] grandmaster. <br />
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==Career==<br />
He started playing chess at the age of 6, and trained under [[Ramachandran Ramesh]] and [[Shyam Sundar M.]]<ref name="toi"/><br />
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In November 2025, he won the 6th ASEAN Individual Open Governor Henry S Oaminal Cup with a score of 7/9. He had won the championship with one round to spare and by a margin of 1.5 points over the runner-up, directly earning the Grandmaster title.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chessbase.in/news/Raahul-V-S-clinches-6th-ASEAN-Individual-Open-2025-and-becomes-the-91st-Grandmaster-of-India|title=Raahul V S clinches 6th ASEAN Individual Open 2025 and becomes the 91st Grandmaster of India|date=November 19, 2025|first=Shahid|last=Ahmed}}</ref> He became India's 91st Grandmaster.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/sports/chess/raahul-vs-grandmaster-india-asean-individual-championship-13948897.html|title=Raahul VS becomes India's 91st Grandmaster with ASEAN Individual Championship triumph|date=November 8, 2025}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
He earned a master's degree in business administration at [[SRM Institute of Science and Technology|SRM University]].<ref name="toi">{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/chess/making-of-indias-91st-gm-raahul-vs-battling-financial-troubles-negative-emotions-before-doing-a-divya-deshmukh-exclusive/articleshow/125221308.cms|title=Making of India's 91st GM Raahul VS: Battling financial troubles, 'negative emotions', before doing a Divya Deshmukh|date=November 10, 2025|first=Jyotirmoy|last=Halder}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Indian grandmasters}}<br />
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[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:2003 births]]<br />
[[Category:Chess Grandmasters]]<br />
[[Category:Sportspeople from Chennai]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Indian chess players]]</div>AndyMfn275514