Vignesh N

Vignesh N, a 21-year-old Indian player, is rated 1938 and sitting in the top 5% of Indian players. He is on a steady climb with +32 Elo over the past 12 months. 24 rated games in the past year (≈49/year long-term). Recent standard appearances include 16 th Chennai Open International Grandmaster Chess Tournament 2025 for Sakthi Group Dr.N.Mahalingam Trophy, Sri M.S.Venkataraman Memorial 10th International Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2025, and SRM 1st International FIDE Rating open chess tournament 2025. Also played 4 rapid (including NALLU Memorial 3rd International Open Fide Rapid Rating Chess Tournament 2024) and 1 blitz events (including Eight Square Chess Academy - 1st International FIDE Rated BLITZ Open Chess Tournament 2026) recently. He had 3 career breaks: 30 months (2020–2022, COVID-19 included), 17 months (2022–2024) and 14 months (2024–2025). His peak of 2005 was reached at age 14 (Feb 2019).

At junior level, he reached #69, #52, #64, #29, #36, #42 and #94 nationally in U20, U18, U16, U14, U12, U10 and U8.