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{{Short description|Indian chess player (born 1990)}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2021}}
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{{Infobox chess biography
| name = Shrinjan Rajkumar Gohain
| image = Shrinjan_Rajkumar_Gohain.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age text|18 August 1990}}
| birth_place = [[Assam]], India
| rating = [https://ratings.fide.com/profile/5038235/chart 1905] (November 2015)<ref name="fide-ratings"/>
| FideID = 5038235
| country = India
| module =
{{Infobox person | child = yes
| education = [[St. Joseph's College of Commerce]]
}}
}}

'''Shrinjan Rajkumar Gohain''' (''Rajkumar Shrinjan Singha''; born 18 August 1990<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shrinjan Rajkumar Gohain|url=https://ratings.fide.com/profile/5038235|access-date=2021-03-05|website=ratings.fide.com}}</ref>) is an Indian chess player.<ref name="Hindu2009-09-19">{{Cite news |date=2009-09-19 |title=Rajkumar triumphs |language=en-IN |work=[[The Hindu]] |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/Rajkumar-triumphs/article16517656.ece |issn=0971-751X |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304225151/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/Rajkumar-triumphs/article16517656.ece |archive-date=4 March 2021}}</ref> He is the former Indian chess champion and a Arena [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shrinjan Rajkumar Gohain|url=https://chessarena.com/profile/526594|website=chessarena.com}}</ref> who has represented his state, [[Assam]], and India in numerous tournaments.<ref name="fide-ratings">{{Cite web|title=Shrinjan Rajkumar Gohain|url=https://ratings.fide.com/profile/5038235|access-date=2021-03-02|website=ratings.fide.com}}</ref><ref name="NIIT2012-07-20">{{Cite press release |title=NIIT MindChampions' Academy completes 10 years of developing young minds through Chess in schools |url=https://www.niit.com/india/training/newsroom/Pages/press-rel.aspx?ID=56 |access-date=2021-03-03 |website=[[NIIT]] |date=20 July 2012 |language=en}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Shrinjan Rajkumar Gohain was born in a [[Ahom people|Tai-Ahom]] family and descends from the [[Ahom dynasty]] with his family residences at [[Guwahati]], Moran in [[Dibrugarh district|Dibrugarh District]] and [[Titabor]] in [[Jorhat district|Jorhat District]] of [[Assam]]. His father's family can be traced back to [[Ahom Kingdom]]'s royal family of [[Swargadeo]] [[Gadadhar Singha]] who established the rule of [[Tungkhungia Ahom kings|Tungkhungia]] royal house of Ahom kings, whose descendants continued to rule till the climactic end of the Ahom kingdom in 1826. Gohain is a direct descendant and seventh and sixth Great grandsons of Ahom Kings [[Swargadeo]] [[Rudra Singha]] and [[Swargadeo]] [[Rajeswar Singha]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gogoi|first=Shanti Priya|url=https://www.sentinelassam.com/amp/story/north-east-india-news/assam-news/shanti-gogois-autobiography-xuworonir-rangin-paat-released|title=Xuworonir Rangin Paat (Assamese book)|publisher=Nandita Hazarika|year=2018|location=Dibrugarh [[Assam]]}}</ref>

== Education ==

Gohain attended Maria's Public School<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dhar wins NIIT meet |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/north-east/dhar-wins-niit-meet/cid/872180 |date=30 July 2005 |location=Guwahati |website=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]] |language=en}}</ref> in [[Guwahati]] before moving to Bangalore to complete pre-university studies. He then went to [[St. Joseph's College of Commerce|St. Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.sjccosa.org/pdf/welcome-SJCC-Booklet.pdf|title=St. Joseph's Collage of Commerce Bangalore, Magazine|publisher=[[St. Joseph's College of Commerce]]|year=2021|pages=14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2009-09-19|title=Rajkumar triumphs|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/Rajkumar-triumphs/article16517656.ece|access-date=2021-03-05|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{fide|id=5038235}}
*{{Twitter|id=ShrinjanGohain}}
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