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Key facts
- Born
- Arjun Kumar Erigaisi , ( 2003-09-03 ) 3 September 2003 (age 22) , Warangal , Telangana, India
- Country
- India
- Title
- Grandmaster (2018)
- Fide rating
- 2761 (June 2026)
- Peak rating
- 2801 (December 2024)
- Ranking
- No. 8 (June 2026)
- Peak ranking
- No. 3 (October 2024)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- India
- Place of birth
- Karimnagar
- Occupation
- chess player
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- India
- Image
- Arjun Erigaisi in 2025.jpg
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- date of birth
- 2003-09-03
- title of chess person
- Grandmaster
- Elo rating
- 2771
- social media followers
- 10036
- Commons category
- Arjun Erigaisi
- ranking
- 30
- name in native language
- അർജുൻ എരിഗെയ്സി
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Encyclopedic overview
Arjun Kumar Erigaisi ( born 3 September 2003) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 13 days. In September 2024, he became India's top rated player, and in December 2024, he achieved his peak rating of 2801, making him the fifteenth-highest rated player in history and second Indian ever to cross the 2800 threshold after Viswanathan Anand. Arjun won the double bronze medal at the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships 2025, becoming the first Indian player to register podium finishes at both events since Viswanathan Anand won the Rapid section and finished third in Blitz in 2017. He has sometimes been described as a 'madman' over the board for his bold and unpredictable style.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arjun Erigaisi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.