Venkatesh M. R.

In this Indian name, the name Marani Rajendran is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Venkatesh.

Venkatesh Marani Rajendran is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Venkatesh M. R.
Country	India
Born	(1985-05-20) May 20, 1985 (age 40) Chennai, India
Title	Grandmaster (2012)[1]
Peak rating	2528 (October 2018)

Chess career

In July 2012, Venkatesh earned his Grandmaster title after finishing second to Abhijeet Gupta at the Philadelphia International Chess Tournament.^[2]

In the seventh round of the MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship 2022, Venkatesh defeated Gupta to share the tournament lead with Mitrabha Guha and S. P. Sethuraman.^[3]

In February 2023, Venkatesh won the 21st Dolomitenbank Open Lienz by defeating Sandipan Chanda in the final round.^[4]