Murali Karthikeyan

Murali Karthikeyan
Country India
Born (1999-05-01) 1 May 1999
Thanjavur, India
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2530 (December 2016)
Peak rating 2518 (December 2015)
In this Indian name, the name Murali is a patronymic, not a family name, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Karthikeyan.

Murali Karthikeyan (born 1 May 1999)[1] is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Born in Thanjavur, Karthikeyan learnt chess at the age of five years.

In December 2011, he won the Under-12 World Chess Championship held in Caldas Novas, Brazil.[2][3][4] Karthikeyan also became the world U16 champion in 2013 in Al Ain.

In 2014 he tied for third place at the Abu Dhabi Masters tournament[5] and helped the Indian team to win the Under-16 Chess Olympiad in Győr, Hungary.[6] In this latter competition he also completed all requirements for the Grandmaster title.

In 2015, Karthikeyan won India's 53rd National Premier Chess Championship in Tiruvarur edging out on tiebreak Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, whom he defeated in the direct encounter, after both scored 8.5 points from 13 games.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ GM title application FIDE
  2. ↑ "Chess News - Karthikayan Murali – World U12 champion – In his own words". ChessBase.com. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
  3. ↑ Chennai boy wins world under-12 chess championship The Sunday Indian
  4. ↑ A hero's welcome for Karthikeyan The Hindu
  5. ↑ "Yuriy Kuzubov wins Abu Dhabi Masters on tie-break". Chessdom. 2014-08-28. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  6. ↑ Mihail Marin (23 December 2014). "India wins U16 Olympiad in Gyor". ChessBase. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Karthikeyan Murali winner of the 2015 India Premier Championship". Chessdom. 2015-11-29. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  8. ↑ Priyadarshan Banjan (2015-11-29). "Men's Premier 13: Murali Karthikeyan!". ChessBase India. Retrieved 7 January 2016.


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