GMV Pranav

Pranav Venkatesh began playing chess at six and trained with several coaches, including Visweswaran Kameswaran. His first two grandmaster norms came at the Serbia Open in 2021 and a Budapest tournament in June 2022. He completed the requirements by winning the Limpedea Open in Romania that August. Later in 2022 he helped India win the World Youth Under-16 Olympiad. He also won the online Challengers Chess Tour, defeating Raunak Sadhwani in the final. In 2023 he helped Magnus Carlsen's Offerspill team win the European Club Cup, beating Jorden van Foreest and Grigoriy Oparin in the final two rounds. He won the Chennai Challengers tournament in November 2024. The following month he won both world under-18 rapid and blitz titles. In March 2025 he became World Junior Champion in Petrovac with nine points from eleven games.