Arjun Erigaisi

Arjun Erigaisi
Erigaisi in 2023
CountryIndia
Born (2003-09-03) 3 September 2003 (age 21)
Warangal, Telangana, India
TitleGrandmaster (2018)
FIDE rating2799 (November 2024)
Peak rating2799 (November 2024)
RankingNo. 4 (November 2024)
Peak rankingNo. 3 (October 2024)

Arjun Erigaisi (born 3 September 2003)[1] is an Indian chess grandmaster and India's highest ranked player as of September 2024, overtaking former world champion Viswanathan Anand. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 13 days, making him the 32nd youngest person ever to achieve the title of grandmaster and concurrently became the 54th grandmaster from India. With a peak rating of 2799, he is the fifteenth-highest rated player in history.

  1. ^ "Erigaisi Arjun". Chess-DB.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2018.