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