Bharath Subramaniyam

Bharath Subramaniyam (born 17 October 2007) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Chess career
He learned chess at the age of five years from his father Harishankkar. Starting from 2014, he attended the "Chess Gurukul" school in Chennai, having GM Ramachandran Ramesh as his main teacher. In January 2020, Bharath was selected for a special training camp sponsored by Microsense networks conducted by former World champion GM Vladimir Kramnik and former World chess challenger GM Boris Gelfand. Bharath is currently training with Indian chess Grandmaster Shyam Sundar.

He completed his 3rd IM norm in June 2019, at the age of 11 years and 8 months. The title was officially ratified by FIDE in September of the same year.

In January 2022 Bharath earned his third and final GM norm to become India's 73rd grandmaster at the age of 14, by scoring 7.5/9 at the Vergani Cup Open in Cattolica, Italy, and raising his live rating above 2500. As of March 18th, 2024, he is the youngest Indian grandmaster.

Main results
In November he wins the World Youth Championship Under-8 at Porto Carras in Greece with 9,5/ 11;
 * 2015 – in August he wins at Suwon (Korea) the Asian Youth Championship in the Under-8 section.
 * 2017 – in August he places 4th in the World Youth Championship Under-10 at Poços de Caldas in Brazil.
 * 2019 – in January he places 4th in the blitz section of the Roquetas de Mar Chess Festival.
 * 2019 - In June he achieves his final IM norm in Goa open and becomes International master.
 * 2020 – in February he places 11th at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow with 5,5/ 9, ahead of 54 Grandmasters and getting his first GM norm with a rating performance greater than 2700.
 * 2021 – in October he is placed 4th (tied for 3rd) at the Junior Roundtable Under 21 tournament in Bulgaria with 6.5/9. He made his 2nd GM norm.