Krishnan Sasikiran
K. Sasikiran ( Krishnan Sasikiran; Tamil கிருஷ்ணன் சசிகிரண், born January 7, 1981 in Madras) is an Indian chess player.
Life
" Sasi ", as he is known by their nicknames, comes as V. Anand from Chennai, formerly Madras, in Tamil Nadu. Sasikiran learned chess from his father S. Krishnan was not until he was ten years old. The international success of V. Anand made chess in India, especially in Tamil Nadu, popular and thus influenced Sasikirans chess development.
Achievements
In 1995 he was Indian Under-18 champion. In 1996 he won at the Commonwealth Under-18 Championship in Kolkata. In 1997, he won the Open British U20 Championship ( British Open the U21 championship he won in 1998, 1999 and 2002). In 1998 he received the title of International Master in 1999, 2002 and 2003, he was Indian 's singles champion. In 2000 at the Commonwealth Championships in India Sangli, which he won, he scored his final norm for the Grandmaster title he still got awarded in the same year. In 2001 he won the Hastings chess tournament and a zone tournament in Colombo, 2002 in Raipur and Qingdao. In 2003, he won the title of the Doha Asian champions as well as the policies Cup in Copenhagen and the International Open in Bikaner. In 2005 he shared the first place with Jan Timman at Siegeman tournament in Copenhagen and Malmö. At the Asian Games in 2006 he won the Indian national team gold medal ( with a personal Elo performance of 2925 ). The Government of Tamil Nadu gave him for this success with a check for 2 million Indian rupees (about € 35,000 at the time ). He took 1998-2012 to nine chess Olympiads with a total score of 53.5 points out of 90 games ( 32, = 43, -15 ). In December 2008, he won a tournament category 16 in Pamplona.
With the team Petroleum Sports Promotion Board, he was four times Masters of India (1999, 2000, 2001 and 2003). He also plays in the Spanish and French (for the Association Cannes Echecs ) team championship. In Croatia he plays on top board of ŠK Zagreb, with whom he was in 2007 and 2008 Croatian Team Champion. At the European Club Cup 2007 in Kemer he had for Zagreb to board one playing with 6 out of 7 the best result of all the players on top board. In the Czech Republic, he won the team championship with the Novoborský ŠK 2011/12.
In January 2007, he was the second Indian after Anand, who has achieved an Elo rating of 2700. His previous highest world ranking was 21 place in April 2006 and January 2007.
He was awarded the Arjuna Award in the category of Chess, 2002.