Vishnu Prasanna

12-year-old Aarav Sarbalia is gaining recognition as a rising chess talent. Alongside his on-board progress, his structured social media content has attracted prominent followers, including Judit Polgar and D Gukesh's coach, vishnu prasanna. Supported by his family and guided by top coaching, Aarav is building momentum toward his long-term goal of achieving the Grandmaster (GM) title.

Sixteen-year-old Aarav Dengla has become India’s 93rd Grandmaster (GM). Guided by his mother Shipra, who quit her job to support his career, Aarav rose rapidly from prodigy to champion. Initially trained by GM Pravin Thipsay and then under vishnu prasanna, and balancing rigorous academics, he sealed his final GM norm in 2026, emerging as Mumbai’s third Grandmaster.

Grandmaster-in-waiting V vishnu prasanna scored a fine victory over compatriot Anurag Mahamal to maintain a clean slate after the end of the third round of the Grand Europe Albena International Chess tournament.

vishnu prasanna's unbeaten run was halted by Grandmaster Hrant Melkumyan of Armenia as the Indian suffered his first defeat in the sixth round of Grand Europe Albena International Chess Tournament.

India's latest Grandmaster V vishnu prasanna faltered yet again as he lost to Vitaliy Bernadskiy to end hopes of a revival in the Grand Europe Albena International Chess tournament.

International Master Mozharov Mikhail moved into sole lead with seven points after the eighth round of the Chennai Grandmaster International Open Chess.

Surya Shekhar Ganguly and V vishnu prasanna emerged as joint leaders with a perfect score after the end of the third round of Asian Chess Championship.

Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly suffered a shock defeat at the hands of GM Suat Atalik of Turkey in the seventh round on a disappointing day for the Indians in the first Negroponte International Open Chess Tournament.

GM Aravindh Chithambaram of Tamil Nadu is well on his way to retain the National Rapid chess title at the Maharashtra Environment Engineering and Research Institute Hall here. He won all his four games on Thursday for a perfect score of 7/7 with two rounds to go on Friday.

Grandmaster-in-waiting V vishnu prasanna continued his dream run and held Argentine GM Sandro Mareco to a draw but Abhijeet Gupta suffered a shock defeat in the fifth round of the Grand Europe Albena International Chess Tournament.

V vishnu prasanna celebrated his new Grandmaster status by outwitting seasoned GM Boris Chatalbashev of Bulgaria to stay in joint lead after the end of the fourth round of Grand Europe Albena chess tournament.

Indian Grandmaster R R Laxman stunned GM Babujian Levon of Armenia in the third round of the Chennai Grand Master International Open Chess tournament on Sunday.

Chennai based Grandmaster R R Laxman upset top seed GM Ivan Popov of Russia in the second round of the Chennai Grand Master International Open Chess tournament on Saturday.

Aravindh Chithambaram of Tamil Nadu displayed his resilience and fighting spirit on Saturday to retain the National blitz chess title at the Maharashtra Environmental Engineering and Research Institute here on Saturday.

Grandmaster Tejas Bakre remained in joint lead after settling for a quick draw with former world junior champion Zaven Andriasian of Armenia.

FIDE Master V R Aravindh Chithambaram emerged the champion after the final round of the Chennai Grandmaster International Open Chess tournament held alongside the World Championship Match here today.

V vishnu prasanna made his maiden Grandmaster norm defeating Grandmaster Mahjoob Morteza of Iran in the ninth and final round of the Negroponte International open chess tournament that concluded.

Grandmaster and former national champion B Adhiban crashed through the defences of former women's world champion Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria to remain in joint lead in the Masters section of Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival.

Grandmaster Debashis Das came up with his best performance ever to hold Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria to a creditable draw in the second round of the Masters' section of Tradewise Gibraltar Chess festival.

Uzbek GM Dzhumaev Marat turned the table around with a hard fought win over IM vishnu prasanna to snatch the title and Rs 3.5 lakh cash prize purse in the International Open chess.

Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta survived a real scare before salvaging a half point against in-form compatriot vishnu prasanna in the sixth round of the first Negroponte International Open Chess tournament.

India's Abhijeet Gupta suffered a shock defeat but young D Gukesh held highly-regarded Grandmaster Valdimir Akopian of Armenia to a creditable draw in the second round of Abu Dhabi Masters chess tournament on Thursday.

Seeded seventh, Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta will spearhead the Indian challenge at the Grand Europe Albena Chess tournament that gets underway.

Grandmaster P Harirkishna will spearhead the Indian challenge in the super-strong Masters' section of the Tradewise Gibraltar chess festival.

Vaibhav Suri nosed ahead with a brilliant endgame display against higher ranked Grandmaster P Magesh Chandran in the seventh round of the 11th Parsvnath International Chess Festival.

Grandmaster MR Lalith Babu defeated GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel and shared lead with 4.5 points after the fifth round of the Chennai Grandmaster International Open Chess tournament.