62nd Indian National Championship 2025 LIVE

The 62nd Indian National Championship 2025 will take place from 21 September to 01 October in India. It is an 11-round Swiss system tournament with a time control of 90 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 secs/move. For more events from India, check out The Asian Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The top-seeded players are GM Iniyan Pa (2599), GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2573), GM S.P. Sethuraman (2572), GM Krishnan Sasikiran (2524), GM N R Vignesh (2516), IM Aronyak Ghosh (2514), GM Abhijeet Gupta (2511), IM S Rohith Krishna (2503), GM M R Lalit Babu (2502), GM Deep Sengupta (2490), FM Ajay Santhosh Parvathareddy (2482), GM L R Srihari (2481), GM Vuppala Prraneeth (2475), IM Ayush Sharma (2457), IM Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad (2446), IM Harsh Suresh (2443), IM C R G Krishna (2440), GM Sayantan Das (2435), Vignesh Advaith Vemula (2431), IM Ameya Audi (2430). Scroll down for the full participants list.

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62nd Indian National Championship 2025 Participants

No.		Name	FED	Rtg
1	GM	Iniyan Pa	IND	2599
2	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2573
3	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	IND	2572
4	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	IND	2524
5	GM	Vignesh N R	IND	2516
6	IM	Aronyak Ghosh	IND	2514
7	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2511
8	IM	Rohith Krishna S	IND	2503
9	GM	Lalit Babu M R	IND	2502
10	GM	Sengupta Deep	IND	2490
11	FM	Ajay Santhosh Parvathareddy	IND	2482
12	GM	Srihari L R	IND	2481
13	GM	Prraneeth Vuppala	IND	2475
14	IM	Ayush Sharma	IND	2457
15	IM	Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND	2446
16	IM	Harsh Suresh	IND	2443
17	IM	Krishna C R G	IND	2440
18	GM	Das Sayantan	IND	2435
19		Vignesh Advaith Vemula	IND	2431
20	IM	Audi Ameya	IND	2430
21	IM	Goutham Krishna H	IND	2418
22	IM	Soham Kamotra	IND	2414
23	IM	Ravi Teja S.	IND	2410
24	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	IND	2407
25	IM	Jain Kashish Manoj	IND	2398
26	IM	Aaditya Dhingra	IND	2391
27	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	IND	2384
28	IM	Srihari L	IND	2373
29	IM	Ritviz Parab	IND	2372
30	GM	Neelotpal Das	IND	2371
31	IM	Manish Anto Cristiano F	IND	2368
32	IM	Panda Sambit	IND	2368
33	IM	Viani Antonio Dcunha	IND	2355
34	IM	Das Arghyadip	IND	2353
35	IM	Subhayan Kundu	IND	2352
36	FM	Nayak Rajesh	IND	2352
37	FM	Priansh Das	IND	2339
38	GM	Sriram Jha	IND	2322
39	IM	Nitin S.	IND	2316
40	FM	Swarna Nihal	IND	2305
41	IM	Utsab Chatterjee	IND	2299
42	AGM	Vignesh B	IND	2288
43	FM	Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande	IND	2285
44		Sharnarthi Viresh	IND	2281
45	FM	Aditya Varun Gampa	IND	2273
46		Alekhya Mukhopadhyay	IND	2264
47	CM	Harshit Ranjan Sahu	IND	2258
48	CM	Kumaresh A	IND	2256
49	FM	Nandish V S	IND	2252
50	CM	Yohan Yadav Tarala	IND	2246
51	FM	Sriansh Das	IND	2245
52	FM	Jaiveer Mahendru	IND	2242
53	FM	Mahitosh Dey	IND	2233
54	FM	Setumadhav Yellumahanthi	IND	2230
55	FM	Ankit Ray	IND	2221
56		Bhoir Paras Dilip	IND	2219
57		Esshan Wadhawan	IND	2207
58		Pattnayak Nilsu	IND	2202
59		Prakhar Tripathi	IND	2199
60		Mayukh Majumder	IND	2198
61	IM	Sharma Dinesh K.	IND	2192
62		Arnav Agrawal	IND	2191
63	FM	Navalgund Niranjan	IND	2185
64		Ashok Koneru	IND	2183
65	IM	Abhishek Kelkar	IND	2172
66	CM	Mukund Hemant Agarwal	IND	2169
67		Majumder Shrayan	IND	2161
68		Surendran N	IND	2158
69	IM	Mohota Nisha	IND	2153
70		Haridev S	IND	2147
71		Sri Charan Sandipagu	IND	2142
72		Vedant Garg	IND	2140
73		Arul Anandh S P K	IND	2134
74	CM	Shadhursshaan R	IND	2125
75	CM	Chidvilash Sai Surapaneni	IND	2124
76		Arshpreet Singh	IND	2123
77	IM	Sangma Rahul	IND	2122
78	CM	Aarit Kapil	IND	2119
79	IM	Murugan Krishnamoorthy	IND	2118
80		Vijay Shreeram P	IND	2118
81		Gaikwad Manas	IND	2112
82		Jihan Tejas Shah	IND	2109
83	AIM	Aadik Theophane Lenin	IND	2108
84		Arush A	IND	2105
85	WGM	Swati Ghate	IND	2102
86	WFM	Aamuktha Guntaka	IND	2102
87	IM	Deshmukh Anup	IND	2099
88		Gyana Sai Santhosh M	IND	2098
89		Nirvan Bhamidi	IND	2098
90		Alluri Bhaskara Ratna Shanmukha	IND	2097
91		Ayaan Garg	IND	2091
92		Medhvansh Madeti	IND	2090
93		Shourya Paul	IND	2090
94		Swain Ashirwad	IND	2087
95	CM	Vandan Alankar Sawai	IND	2086
96		Badole Shaunak	IND	2086
97	WFM	Marium Fatima	IND	2083
98	CM	Gadhavi Veerbhadrasinh	IND	2077
99		Abhishek T M	IND	2077
100		Srijon Saha	IND	2076
101		Pranay Akula	IND	2075
102	CM	Akshit Kumar J	IND	2074
103		Mahindrakar Indrajeet	IND	2074
104		Sanjay S Pillai	IND	2074
105		Murali Krishna G.	IND	2068
106		Shreyash Singh	IND	2065
107	AIM	Adhiraj Mitra	IND	2064
108		Bhat Sannidhi Ramakrishna	IND	2060
109		Yashad Bambeshwar	IND	2057
110		Guru Prakash	IND	2055
111	AIM	Banik Hrishikesh Kumar	IND	2053
112	CM	Joel Paul Ganta	IND	2050
113		Sharnarthi Shlok	IND	2046
114	CM	Vedant Rupeshbhai Varasada	IND	2044
115	CM	Vivaan Vijay Saraogi	IND	2043
116	WFM	Lasya G	IND	2040
117		Borkhetariya Devarsh M	IND	2040
118	FM	Ayushh Ravikumar	IND	2038
119		Karan J P	IND	2035
120		Simhadri Sai Hrushikesh	IND	2031
121		Tata Keerthi Rana	IND	2029
122	FM	Ramakrishna J.	IND	2028
123		Gurung Rahul	IND	2028
124		Mrittika Mallick	IND	2024
125		Niharika Challa	IND	2022
126		Srijak Sengupta	IND	2019
127		Devesh Anand Naik	IND	2016
128		Abhinav Raj	IND	2015
129		Challa Saharsha	IND	2014
130	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	IND	2013
131	AIM	Venkatesh Das	IND	2013
132		Druvesh Dondapati	IND	2011
133		Sharsha Backer	IND	2011
134	AIM	Vivaan Sardana	IND	2008
135		Kolla Bhaavan	IND	2008
136		Ramanuj Mishra	IND	2006
137		Utkrisht Tuli	IND	2006
138		Rupam Mukherjee	IND	2005
139		Sharma Sai	IND	2004
140		Andalamala Hemal Varshan	IND	1998
141	AGM	Gopal Krishna Maheshwari	IND	1996
142		Aryan Behera	IND	1993
143	AGM	Sparsh Khandelwal	IND	1986
144		Sree Shaunak Chanda	IND	1984
145		Agnivo Chakraborty	IND	1983
146		Kandi Santosh Sai Karthik	IND	1983
147		Mann Akbari	IND	1982
148		Shivamshika G	IND	1981
149	IM	Sahu Sekhar Chandra	IND	1980
150	WCM	Akshaya Sathi	IND	1980
151	WCM	Kashthuri Bhai R	IND	1979
152		Shreyash Shuvam Patnaik	IND	1978
153		Saisarvesh S	IND	1977
154		Sravyasree Bheemarasetty	IND	1977
155		Rahul Ramakrishnan	IND	1976
156		Jagesia Daksh	IND	1975
157		Tarun V	IND	1975
158	CM	Vyom Malhotra	IND	1974
159		Naveen K S	IND	1974
160		Badamundi Tapan	IND	1973
161		Umashankar A	IND	1971
162	CM	Dolas Aarush	IND	1966
163		Malvin Joshua	IND	1966
164		Atiksh Thakur	IND	1964
165		Abhijith U	IND	1955
166		Pradeep Tiwari	IND	1952
167		Krithik Muthukumar	IND	1949
168		Naga Sai Sarthak Karanam	IND	1948
169		Abhinav Anand	IND	1947
170		Lavyaajyoti Routray	IND	1946
171		Neelabhro Bandyopadhyay	IND	1945
172	AIM	Premshankar B U	IND	1944
173	WFM	Bhagyashree Patil	IND	1943
174		Aditya P Melani	IND	1942
175	AIM	Suraj Dahiya	IND	1940
176	IM	Hegde Ravi Gopal	IND	1939
177	AIM	Vijay Kumar	IND	1939
178		Oishik Mondal	IND	1937
179		Shaurya Chaudhary	IND	1937
180	WCM	Modipalli Deekshitha	IND	1934
181		Kirthika B	IND	1934
182		Mishra Kamad	IND	1934
183		Shaikh Sohil	IND	1934
184		Singh Pritam	IND	1933
185		Kabnurakar Rushikesh	IND	1931
186		Dubey Sanchay	IND	1929
187		Meetansh Dixit	IND	1926
188	CM	Ebenezer Joseph	IND	1925
189		Armaan Singh Bakshi	IND	1923
190		Adharva P T	IND	1922
191		Tanna Krish Alpeshbhai	IND	1922
192	AFM	Gorli Nyna	IND	1920
193		Lakshmi Charan Naidu G	IND	1917
194		Shah Veer Kunjan	IND	1915
195		Aaradhya Jain	IND	1913
196		Ashutosh Kumar	IND	1913
197		Shreyas Das	IND	1911
198		Rishit Sharma	IND	1907
199		Tijil Singh	IND	1907
200	WCM	Wankhade Sanskruti	IND	1905
201		Majhi Fakir	IND	1902
202		Srikara Darbha	IND	1895
203		Seetasagar Konaparthi	IND	1893
204		Sunetra Dey	IND	1892
205		Chukka Vineel Radha Karthik	IND	1889
206		Gagan Sahu	IND	1887
207		Manav Kumar	IND	1887
208		Rithwik Reddy Upparigudam	IND	1886
209	WFM	Potluri Supreetha	IND	1885
210	AIM	Arul Prakash N	IND	1885
211		Kherdekar Arnav	IND	1885
212		Kushagra Paliwal	IND	1885
213		Amartya Saumitra Gupta	IND	1884
214	AIM	Awadh Chaitanya	IND	1883
215		Rupesh B Ramchandra	IND	1881
216		Shitiz Prasad	IND	1881
217		Shubh Atha	IND	1881
218		Andabatla Satvik	IND	1880
219		Sathwik D S S U	IND	1874
220	WCM	Chinnam Vyshnavi	IND	1872
221		Advik Reddy Moate	IND	1870
222		Bhavanya Panchumarthi	IND	1870
223		Rao J. Malleswara	IND	1867
224		Sundar Divij P	IND	1867
225		Sarvani Cheedella	IND	1866
226		Shreyan Gupta Barman	IND	1865
227		Kanoje Alok	IND	1862
228		Sreehari S Mecheril	IND	1862
229		Sri Akhil Prasad	IND	1862
230		Madhab Sarma	IND	1861
231		Anirudh R	IND	1856
232		Akshat Negi	IND	1853
233		Sanjay Ganesh Pandi	IND	1853
234	WCM	Nanditha V	IND	1852
235		Swapnil Priyadarshi	IND	1852
236		Surada Yashaswi Satya Gangadhar	IND	1849
237		Chehal Nikhil	IND	1847
238		Gada Om	IND	1847
239		Richard Solomon M	IND	1847
240	WCM	Sri Darshini T	IND	1844
241		Sasi Hasini Chintala	IND	1844
242		Sushant Tiwari	IND	1842
243	AFM	Shahan Vohra	IND	1839
244		Rishen Jilowa	IND	1839
245	AFM	Ravindra Raju	IND	1836
246		Sumeetkumar M S	IND	1832
247		Vikesh Nandan Kumar	IND	1827
248	ACM	Aditi Arun	IND	1826
249		Vakcheri Mohitha	IND	1823
250		Hardik Shah	IND	1821
251		Kota Kalpak Harsha Keertan	IND	1820
252		Reyaansh Venkat	IND	1820
253		Ishaan Kandi	IND	1816
254		Suraj Choudhary	IND	1816
255		Raman Siddhardh B	IND	1815
256		Eugen Mehul Shah	IND	1812
257		Sidharth Sreekumar	IND	1811
258		Gopalakrishnan G	IND	1808
259		Samhita Pungavanam	IND	1807
260		Aabhas Kumar Srivastava	IND	1806
261		Divith Reddy Adulla	IND	1805
262		Raposo Maxwell	IND	1805
263		Silkam Sangma	IND	1803
264	ACM	Aadithya R	IND	1801
265		Majji Ram Charan Teja	IND	1797
266		Mokshith Pasupulety	IND	1797
267		Salil Kumar D.	IND	1797
268	AFM	Arhan Jain	IND	1794
269		Sahejdeep Kaur	IND	1794
270		Agarwal Brajesh	IND	1793
271		Suryapranjal Indrajeet S P	IND	1793
272		Karra Surya Kumara Sridatta	IND	1789
273	AIM	Gade Sharanya	IND	1788
274		Divesh G	IND	1786
275		Rudra Kavia	IND	1784
276		Athulkrishna P	IND	1783
277	AIM	Patil Jaiveer	IND	1782
278		Amanlal A	IND	1781
279		Gajendra Singh	IND	1780
280		Vibhor Chopra	IND	1771
281		Srinivasa Rao P R V	IND	1769
282		Sudhakar Prem Dutt	IND	1764
283	AGM	Karthik Gopal G	IND	1760
284		Himanshu Moudgil	IND	1757
285		Vedant Rajesh	IND	1747
286		Sathvik Gulakaram	IND	1746
287		Ziba Kishan A	IND	1744
288		Tanishk Kumar	IND	1743
289		Om Sagar	IND	1742
290		Parv H Hakani	IND	1742
291		Kartikeya Chunchu	IND	1741
292		Ruchir Nadikatla	IND	1738
293		Sahrudh M P	IND	1737
294		Shiva R V	IND	1737
295		Kushagra Pratap Singh	IND	1736
296		Vibhaan 0	IND	1734
297		Akhil K G	IND	1732
298		Aarush Nair	IND	1730
299		Hariharan Vinayagamurthy	IND	1727
300		Saniya Rafique Tadavi	IND	1727
301		Manash Pratim Chutia	IND	1726
302		Khillo Purna	IND	1719
303		Neev Sajeev	IND	1715
304		Falgun D Purohit	IND	1713
305		Pamidi Jaswanth	IND	1712
306		Aarav Arpit Shah	IND	1709
307		Neerad P	IND	1702
308		Heet Baldawa	IND	1697
309		Caleb Vihaan John	IND	1693
310		Rajveer Patil	IND	1693
311		Satyaki G Gokul	IND	1693
312		Goura Hari Mohapatra	IND	1689
313	AFM	Silseng N Marak	IND	1687
314		Chandra Pradeep	IND	1687
315		Arjun Singh	IND	1686
316		Lalnghilhlova Rokhuma	IND	1686
317		Prabakaran S	IND	1686
318		Vakada Sriram Jayin	IND	1685
319		Nayak Narayan	IND	1684
320		Ardhendu Sekhar Mandal	IND	1682
321		Krishna Varenya Potnuru	IND	1682
322		Kavyasree T V S	IND	1681
323		Inoday Mitra	IND	1680
324		Lalthlamuana H	IND	1680
325		Krusen D Shira	IND	1677
326		Borate Tanvi	IND	1668
327		Sevitha Viju M	IND	1668
328		Akella Sankalparuthvik	IND	1665
329		Daivya Nagda	IND	1663
330	AIM	Mandloi Mukesh	IND	1659
331		Ritesh Bhardwaj	IND	1657
332		Imadabattini Joel	IND	1655
333		Tiwari Vivek	IND	1648
334		Manoj Reddy Maram	IND	1646
335	AFM	Sri Shiva Tejo Karthikeya K	IND	1641
336		Shashank Seshan	IND	1637
337	AFM	Nagireddypalli Dikshit	IND	1633
338		Ayaanraj Kottapally	IND	1628
339		Bathina Mokshatra Sri Abhiram	IND	1626
340		Johnson Zoremthara Chhangte	IND	1625
341	AFM	Timmaraju Venkata Sathvik	IND	1623
342	AIM	Sheikh Jahan	IND	1622
343		Hartejpal Singh	IND	1613
344		Virat J S	IND	1613
345		Dushyant Singh	IND	1612
346		Komati Charath Ashwin	IND	1611
347		Shubh Singh Saini	IND	1607
348		Vedant A Agarwal	IND	1605
349	AFM	Rishith Devnarayan S	IND	1600
350		Madhav Garg	IND	1599
351		Rajat Soni	IND	1597
352		Bhuvana Koppineni	IND	1588
353		Mishra Rahul	IND	1574
354		Garvit Pant	IND	1571
355		Mahadev Rushita Haju	IND	1565
356		P S V Yashwanth Raj Kumar	IND	1559
357		Amanchi Naga Siva Sai Divya	IND	1554
358	AFM	Nischala Y	IND	1549
359		Nil Kumar Datta	IND	1549
360	AFM	Buchibabu Chennupati	IND	1547
361		Radhika Devi Chavali	IND	1547
362		Jitendra Kumar	IND	1546
363		Dinesh Reddy Konda	IND	1545
364		Saathvik Chakravarthy Ramayanam	IND	1539
365	AFM	Pranavaaditya Ginjupally	IND	1537
366		Vijay Kumar A	IND	1533
367		Mandula Babu Samuel	IND	1527
368		Prajith Bajina	IND	1523
369	ACM	Amogh Reddy Kakarla	IND	1521
370		Nihal Parvathaneni	IND	1521
371		Mutyala Santosh Krishna	IND	1510
372		Sathiya Moorthy T	IND	1508
373		Aradhya Raj Pokhrel	IND	1507
374		Prashant Nepal	IND	1498
375		Sreesha Kandi	IND	1493
376		Jagamohan Dash	IND	1492
377		Mayukh Sah	IND	1483
378	AFM	Annepu Sashank	IND	1482
379	AIM	Sathi Ruthwik Venkata Karthikeya Red	IND	1481
380		Maaksharath Gogineni	IND	1478
381		Aarush Reddy V	IND	1474
382		Manish Kumar	IND	1474
383	AFM	Parvesh Akkivarapu	IND	1462
384		Brahmanandam U	IND	1458
385	ACM	Afsheen Mohammed	IND	1456
386		Kavya A N S S	IND	1452
387		Mandula Merry Amen	IND	1449
388		Arisapu Vedhaanshi	IND	1443
389		Riyazullah Shaik Mohammad	IND	1434
390		Akula Sathvik	IND	1425
391		Tseten Dorjee Bhutia	IND	1416
392	AFM	Yashwant V	IND	0
393		Aishwarya Gupta	IND	0
394		Arav Sharma	IND	0