GMLalit Babu M R

M. R. Lalith Babu was born in Vijayawada in 1993. He won silver at the 2008 Asian Junior Championship and received the international master title. His grandmaster norms came at Balaguer, the Chennai Open and Hastings, leading to the title in 2012. He won the Leiden tournament in 2009 and the Commonwealth championship in 2012.

Lalith Babu won the Chennai Super Kings tournament in 2013 on tiebreak ahead of Lu Shanglei. He was part of India's team that won its first open-section Olympiad bronze in 2014. He became Indian champion in 2017 and national rapid champion in 2018. That year he also won the SCO Open in Xingtai, China.