Coaches

Grand Master R.B.Ramesh :

Certified FIDE Trainer

• Winner of National under – 18 Boys Championship in 1992 & 1993
• National Rapid Champion in 2000
• British Champion in 2002
• Winner of Piloo Moody International Open 2003
• Winner of Parsvnath International Open 2003
• National B Champion 2003 & 2005
• Commonwealth Champion 2007-08
• National Blitz Chess Champion 2009

Is a leading Chess trainer in India with wealth of experience in working with top players of our country in various capacities.

Coach for Indian Team for the Asian Junior Championship, Iran 1998, World Youth Chess Championship Vietnam 2008, Asian Indoor Games, Vietnam 2009  & World Youth Chess Championship, Turkey 2009.

Coach for Gold Medal Winning World Youth Team Championship at Turkey in 2008.

FIDE Master K.Visweswaran :

Certified FIDE Trainer

K Visweswaran is another big name in chess coaching in India and he was the trainer of all Grandmaster Indian Seniors team in the Chess Olympiad, Dresden, Germany 2008. He is also the coaching co-ordinator of All India Chess Federation.

As a trainer he helped the Indian team win back-to-back Gold medals in World Youth Olympiad at Singapore 2007 & Turkey 2008. He made it a hat-trick of medals for India leading the team to Silver medal in the World Youth Olympiad, Turkey 2009.

Has trained many of the top players like Grand Masters Deepan Chakravarthy, S.Arun Prasad, Sundararajan Kidambi.

Others include International Masters like Baskaran Adibhan, who is also the World Under 16 Boys Champion, 2008 and International Masters M.R.Venkatesh, P Shyam Nikhil.

Has trained leading & talented players like IM Norm holder Vishnu Prasanna, WIM P.Priya, Tejas Ravichandran and J Mohana Priya.

International Master Suvrajit Saha

• National Under 25 Champion 1999
• National “B” Champion in 2002
• Represented Indian team at Moscow & Biel 2007
• Students include IM Saptarshi Roy, National Under 25 Champion Somak Palit & Aryan Chopra.

International Master Roktim Bandyopadhyay

• Bronze medal winner – India “C” team @ Asian Teams, 2003
• Trainer of Grandmaster G N Gopal from 2005-08
• Trainer of International Master Vidit Santosh Gujrathi from 2008-09
• Practice partner of Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda from 1998-2003.
• Since November 2009 (Before World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia)  working  professionally  as  trainer/second  to GM Sandipan Chanda
• Worked as second for GM Enamul Hossain in 2005
• Worked as second for GM Sundararajan Kidambi in 2007
• Coaching Prince Bajaj since 2009
• Professional chess coach since 2005

Woman Grand Master Aarthie Ramaswamy

• Former National Champion
• World Under 18 Champion, Greece 1999
• Is currently training lot of talented players in India & abroad.

Woman International Master Saimeera Ravi

• Represented India in World Open, Philadelphia 2008 & Canadian Open 2008
• Trainer of International Master Baskaran Adhiban from 2005 to 2008
• National Women “B” Champion 2006
• Bronze Medalist India “C” team – Asian Team Championship, 2003
• Silver Medalist – Asian Sub-Junior Championship, Vietnam 1993
• National Sub-junior Champion, 1993

FIDE Master K V Shantharam

• Former Tamil Nadu State Champion
• Has played in National A Championship many times
• Is currently training lot of upcoming players in Chennai

K Gopalakrishnan

He is a highly respected Chess trainer in Chennai. Sicilian Dragon has been his speciality for a long time. He has represented Tamil Nadu in many National Championships in the past.

One time winner of the erstwhile Madan Silver Cup in Chennai, Gopalakrishnan formerly coached R Bharathi, National Sub-Junior Champion 2008 and International Master Norm holder, Ramnath Bhuvanesh.

K GANESAN (alias D GANESH)

Certified National Instructor (FIDE) with 11 yrs of Coaching experience.

FIDE Rated  National level player.

IM Ashwin Jayaram, former Asian Junior champion and currently holds three GM Norms.

N Raghavi – National U – 12 Champion 2001, National U – 14 Rapid Champion 2002 , National U – 20 Champion 2003 & National Women A Player.

K.E.R Ranjitha – National U – 12 Rapid Champion 2004

Michelle Catherina – National U – 11 Championship 2006 ( Runner Up)

R. Bharathi – T.N. States Sub-Junior Champion 2007 , National Sub-Junior Champion 2008, Bronze Medal in 2008 Asian Games and Sports (Russia) WIM Norm holder in year 2009 ( Spain)

Coach for Indian team in the world youth team chess championship in 2009 (Russia) where India got a Silver Medal as a team prize. Individual medals include Gold medals by M.G.Gahan and Antonio Viani D’ Cunha, Silver Medal by C.H.Savetha.

Lakshmi Priyaa T T

Certified FIDE Instructor,  FIDE Arbiter & Fide rated player of ELO 2005

Former State Junior(W)  Champion- 1999
Runner up in Under 18 (W)State Championship
Second Runner up in State Women Chess Championship – 1999
Represented Tamil Nadu State in several National Championships in respective categories
Member of the Women team that finished Second in  the National Women team Chess championship -1999
Captained the University of Madras, Women Chess team that won the All India Inter University Championship for two consecutive years 2001& 2002
Member of the Women team that Won the National Women Team Chess Championship – 2001 & 2002
Member of the Women team that finished Fourth in the National Women Team Chess Championship – 2003

J Sridhar

FIDE rated player (ELO 2056) with 10 years of training experience

Sujatha Prashanth

Former Karnataka Women Champion

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