Rai, Surendra Kumar

Surendra Kumar Rai, a 52-year-old Nepalese player, is rated 1752. He has slipped back 47 Elo over the past 12 months. 22 rated games in the past year (≈8/year long-term). Recent standard appearances include 1st Gauradaha Province Level FIDE Rating Chess Tourmament 2083, First Phakphokthum Open Nationwide Rating Chess Tournament-2082, and Martyr Ratna Kumar Bantawa 4th Nationwide Rating Chess Tournament-2081. Also played 1 rapid (including Nar Bahadur Karmacharya Memorial FIDE Rapid Rating Below 1900 Chess Tournament) and 2 blitz events (including Himalayan 100x2: Rajendra KC Memorial Blitz Tournament-2025) recently. He had 6 career breaks: 15 months (2013–2014), 16 months (2015–2016), 16 months (2016–2017), 13 months (2018–2019), 12 months (2022–2023) and 15 months (2023–2025). His peak of 1799 was reached at age 51 (Apr 2025); he also reached Nepalese #42 in May 2015.