Visakh N. R.

In this Indian name, the name Narayanan Rajeshwari is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Visakh.

Visakh Narayanan Rajeshwari is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Visakh N. R.
Country	India
Born	(1999-04-24) 24 April 1999 (age 26) Nagercoil, India
Title	Grandmaster (2019)[1]
FIDE rating	2552 (August 2025)
Peak rating	2566 (September 2022)

Chess career

In August 2023, Visakh won the Leça Blitz Open 2023 ahead of his brother Vignesh and Harshit Raja after drawing the former and defeating the latter in tiebreaks.^[2]

In December 2023, Visakh won the 5th Roma Citta Aperta Masters section ahead of Krishna C. R. G. and Tigran Harutyunyan.^[3]

Personal life

His older brother is Vignesh N. R., who is also a Grandmaster. The two became the first brothers and siblings from India to become grandmasters when Vignesh achieved the title in January 2023.^[4]