Bharath Subramaniyam

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

Bharath Subramaniyam
Bharath with his first GM norm
Country	India
Born	(2007-10-17) 17 October 2007 (age 17) Chennai, India
Title	Grandmaster (2022)
FIDE rating	2562 (August 2025)
Peak rating	2567 (January 2025)

Chess career

Bharath learned chess at the age of five from his father, Harishankkar. Starting in 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 and conducted by former world champion GM Vladimir Kramnik and former world chess challenger GM Boris Gelfand. Bharath is currently training with Indian chess GM Shyam Sundar.

He completed his 3rd IM norm in June 2019 at the age of 11 years and 8 months.^[1] The title was officially ratified by FIDE in September of the same year.^[2]

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.^[3][4] As of July 8th 2025, he is the youngest Indian grandmaster and he has been so for last 3.5 years since he became grandmaster.

Main results

• 2015 – in August he wins at Suwon (Korea) the Asian Youth Championship in the Under-8 section.^[5]
  In November he wins the World Youth Championship Under-8 at Porto Carras in Greece with 9,5/ 11;^[6]
• 2017 – in August he places 4th in the World Youth Championship Under-10 at Poços de Caldas in Brazil.^[7]
• 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.^[8]
• 2020 – in February he places 11th at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow with 5,5/ 9, ahead of 54 Grandmasters^[9][10] and getting his first GM norm with a rating performance greater than 2700.^[11]
• 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.^[12]
• 2024 - in Feb won the Cannes chess open held in France.
• 2025 – in July he won the 53rd World Open chess tournament held at Philadelphia and won the first prize of $20500.