GMB. Adhiban

Adhiban Baskaran was born in Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu, in 1992. He won the Asian under-sixteen title in 2007 and the world title in that age group in 2008. He also played top board for India’s winning teams at the 2007 and 2008 Under-16 Olympiads. He became Indian champion in 2009 and a grandmaster in 2010. His adult tournament victories included the Sants Open in 2013 and the Biel Masters Open in 2014. He helped India win team bronze at the 2014 Olympiad in Tromsø. Winning the 2016 Tata Steel Challengers on tiebreak qualified him for the Masters, where he finished third in 2017 after defeating Sergey Karjakin and Richárd Rapport among others. In 2018 he won both the Reykjavik Open and Zagreb’s revived Tournament of Peace. He also belonged to the bronze-winning India B team at the 2022 Chennai Olympiad.