Nihal Sarin

Nihal Sarin (born 13 July 2004) is an Indian chess grandmaster and chess prodigy. In 2018, he passed the Elo rating of 2600 at 14 years old, which at the time made him the third youngest player in history to do so.

In this Indian name, the name Sarin is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Nihal.
Nihal Sarin
Nihal at FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023
CountryIndia
Born (2004-07-13) 13 July 2004
Thrissur, Kerala, India
TitleGrandmaster (2018)
FIDE rating2693 (February 2024)
Peak rating2694 (October 2023)
RankingNo. 43 (February 2024)
Peak rankingNo. 42 (October 2023)

As a junior player, Nihal was the World Under-10 champion in 2014 and placed second in the 2015 World Under-12 championship. Nihal won the Gold Medal as part of the Indian team in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020. He won the U-18 World Youth Championship held online in rapid format in 2020.

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