2606
Standard
Oct 2026
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2606
Peak
Jan 2026
2464
Rapid
2481
Blitz
#17
India
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World
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Name: Pranav Anand — not "Anand Pranav", which is how it appears surname-first in pairing lists and FIDE records.
Title: Grandmaster (GM), awarded September 2022 — India's 76th, at 15 years 10 months.
FIDE ID: 46626786
Works with: Chola Chess; the WestBridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA).
Financial support: HPCL; Group e4; and the Quantbox Research scholarship.
Previously: Syndicate Bank, now Canara Bank — a one-time grant in 2016, the first institutional backing he received; and the 24|7.ai Foundation, 2017 to 2025.
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Pranav Anand is an Indian chess Grandmaster from Bengaluru and the 2022 World Youth U-16 champion.
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Pranav Anand (born 3 November 2006) is an Indian chess Grandmaster from Bengaluru. He became India's 76th GM in September 2022 at 15, the same week he won the World Youth U-16 Championship in Romania. He reached a peak FIDE rating of 2606 in January 2026.
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Pranav Anand (born 3 November 2006) is an Indian chess Grandmaster from Bengaluru, Karnataka. He was ranked World No. 1 in the Under-10 category in 2016, became an International Master at 14, and in September 2022 crossed 2500 at the World Youth Chess Championship in Mamaia, Romania — becoming India's 76th Grandmaster and the youngest from Karnataka — in the same event where he took the U-16 gold with 9/11.
He has since won the President's Cup of Tajikistan (2025), the 42nd Cappelle la Grande Open (2026) and the Brasov Grand Prix (2026). At the 2025 World Blitz Championship he beat Richard Rapport and Volodar Murzin, faced Magnus Carlsen, and finished with a 2739 performance rating. He works with a foreign coach and trains with grandmasters.
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