Krishnan Sasikiran
Indian chess grandmaster (born 1981) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Krishnan Sasikiran (Tamil: கிருஷ்ணன் சசிகிரண்; born 7 January 1981) is an Indian chess grandmaster.
In this Indian name, the name Krishnan is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Sasikiran.
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Country | India | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1981-01-07) 7 January 1981 (age 43) Madras, Tamil Nadu, India | ||||||||||||||
Title | Grandmaster (2000), Senior International Correspondence Chess Master (2016) | ||||||||||||||
FIDE rating | 2581 (May 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Peak rating | 2720 (May 2012) | ||||||||||||||
Peak ranking | No. 21 (April 2006) | ||||||||||||||
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He was one of Viswanathan Anand's seconds in the World Chess Championship 2013.[1]