IMSwaminathan Soumya
- FIDE ID
- 5016193
About Swaminathan Soumya
Soumya Swaminathan was born in Palakkad in 1989. She won three Indian junior girls' championships, in 2005, 2006 and 2008. In 2009, she became world junior girls' champion in Argentina, finishing ahead of Deysi Cori and Betül Cemre Yıldız on tiebreak. Show more
Soumya Swaminathan was born in Palakkad in 1989. She won three Indian junior girls' championships, in 2005, 2006 and 2008. In 2009, she became world junior girls' champion in Argentina, finishing ahead of Deysi Cori and Betül Cemre Yıldız on tiebreak. She won the Indian women's championship in 2010 and the Commonwealth women's title in 2012.
Swaminathan shared first place in the women's Moscow Open in 2016 and won bronze in that year's Asian Women's Championship. She represented India in three Women's World Team Championships between 2011 and 2015, earning an individual bronze medal in 2013. She also played at the 2012, 2016 and 2022 Olympiads. In 2018, she withdrew from the Asian Team Championship in Iran in protest at the compulsory headscarf rule. She holds the WGM and IM titles.
FIDE rating history
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FIDE tournaments
| Date | Tournament | Type | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-27 | 5th Pinnacle FIDE Rated Rapid Chess Tournament | Rapid | 7 |
| 2026-08-29 | FE 28 Citta' di Trieste - A | Classical | 5½ |
Available Games
Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-11-10 (UTC).
Online games are identified from known tournament names, playing sites and PGN mode. Other games are listed as OTB (over-the-board).
| # | Date | Event | Site | Round | White | Black | Result | Moves | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-12-30 | Titled Tue 30th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 9 | Swaminathan Soumya | Serdar Murat Yildiz | 0-1 | 46 | Open |
| 2 | 2025-12-30 | Titled Tue 30th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 8 | Dimitrios Vazelakis | Swaminathan Soumya | 1/2-1/2 | 44 | Open |
| 3 | 2025-12-30 | Titled Tue 30th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 7 | Ariel Tokman | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 34 | Open |
| 4 | 2025-12-30 | Titled Tue 30th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 6 | Swaminathan Soumya | Alain Fayard | 1-0 | 28 | Open |
| 5 | 2025-12-30 | Titled Tue 30th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 5 | Karina Ambartsumova | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 34 | Open |
| 6 | 2025-12-30 | Titled Tue 30th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 4 | Swaminathan Soumya | Julian Estrada Nieto | 1-0 | 42 | Open |
| 7 | 2025-12-30 | Titled Tue 30th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 3 | Baris Cinar Sahbudak | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 40 | Open |
| 8 | 2025-12-30 | Titled Tue 30th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 2 | Swaminathan Soumya | Darmen Dauren | 1-0 | 38 | Open |
| 9 | 2025-12-30 | Titled Tue 30th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 1 | Swaminathan Soumya | Anna M. Sargsyan | 0-1 | 35 | Open |
| 10 | 2025-12-30 | Titled Tue 30th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 11 | Swaminathan Soumya | Nicolas Kulik | 1-0 | 31 | Open |
| 11 | 2025-12-30 | Titled Tue 30th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 10 | Nivedita V C | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 42 | Open |
| 12 | 2024-04-16 | Titled Tue 16th Apr Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Swaminathan Soumya | Diego Carbone | 0-1 | 29 | Open |
| 13 | 2024-04-16 | Titled Tue 16th Apr Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Lubov Markelova | Swaminathan Soumya | 0-1 | 21 | Open |
| 14 | 2024-04-16 | Titled Tue 16th Apr Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Swaminathan Soumya | Andrei Olhovik | 0-1 | 50 | Open |
| 15 | 2024-04-16 | Titled Tue 16th Apr Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Swaminathan Soumya | Meri Arabidze | 0-1 | 29 | Open |
| 16 | 2023-11-07 | Titled Tue 7th Nov Early | chess.com INT | 9 | Swaminathan Soumya | Rucha Pujari | 1-0 | 34 | Open |
| 17 | 2023-11-07 | Titled Tue 7th Nov Early | chess.com INT | 8 | Swaminathan Soumya | Almas Rakhmatullaev | 0-1 | 36 | Open |
| 18 | 2023-11-07 | Titled Tue 7th Nov Early | chess.com INT | 7 | Nagare Kaivalya Sandip | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 39 | Open |
| 19 | 2023-11-07 | Titled Tue 7th Nov Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Alexei Gubajdullin | Swaminathan Soumya | 0-1 | 51 | Open |
| 20 | 2023-11-07 | Titled Tue 7th Nov Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Swaminathan Soumya | Alikhon Avazkhonov | 1-0 | 22 | Open |
| 21 | 2023-11-07 | Titled Tue 7th Nov Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Swaminathan Soumya | Khagan Ahmad | 1-0 | 58 | Open |
| 22 | 2023-11-07 | Titled Tue 7th Nov Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Krish Bhandari | Swaminathan Soumya | 0-1 | 44 | Open |
| 23 | 2023-11-07 | Titled Tue 7th Nov Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Deniel Causo | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 45 | Open |
| 24 | 2023-11-07 | Titled Tue 7th Nov Early | chess.com INT | 11 | Swaminathan Soumya | Teimur Toktomushev | 1-0 | 34 | Open |
| 25 | 2023-11-07 | Titled Tue 7th Nov Early | chess.com INT | 10 | Stelios Halkias | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 53 | Open |
| 26 | 2023-10-31 | Titled Tue 31st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Michel Alejandro Diaz Perez | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 37 | Open |
| 27 | 2023-10-31 | Titled Tue 31st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Erick Zhao | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 24 | Open |
| 28 | 2023-10-31 | Titled Tue 31st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Swaminathan Soumya | Roman Ovetchkin | 1-0 | 52 | Open |
| 29 | 2023-10-31 | Titled Tue 31st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Swaminathan Soumya | Iung Alicio de O. Pinheiro | 1-0 | 35 | Open |
| 30 | 2023-10-10 | Titled Tue 10th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 9 | Antoine Bournel | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 42 | Open |
| 31 | 2023-10-10 | Titled Tue 10th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 8 | Swaminathan Soumya | Mohammad Mehdi Abbasi Abeluie | 1/2-1/2 | 75 | Open |
| 32 | 2023-10-10 | Titled Tue 10th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 7 | Mahitosh Dey | Swaminathan Soumya | 1/2-1/2 | 23 | Open |
| 33 | 2023-10-10 | Titled Tue 10th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Stanislaw Osiecki | Swaminathan Soumya | 0-1 | 56 | Open |
| 34 | 2023-10-10 | Titled Tue 10th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Swaminathan Soumya | Rafal Szyszylo | 0-1 | 34 | Open |
| 35 | 2023-10-10 | Titled Tue 10th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Swaminathan Soumya | Hussain Besou | 0-1 | 49 | Open |
| 36 | 2023-10-10 | Titled Tue 10th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Valiantsin Yezhel | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 28 | Open |
| 37 | 2023-10-10 | Titled Tue 10th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Mika Karttunen | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 32 | Open |
| 38 | 2023-10-10 | Titled Tue 10th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Swaminathan Soumya | Frederick Waldhausen Gordon | 1-0 | 33 | Open |
| 39 | 2023-10-10 | Titled Tue 10th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 11 | Arina Kiseleva | Swaminathan Soumya | 0-1 | 34 | Open |
| 40 | 2023-10-10 | Titled Tue 10th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 10 | Swaminathan Soumya | Alberto Santos Flores | 0-1 | 37 | Open |
| 41 | 2023-10-03 | Titled Tue 3rd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Swaminathan Soumya | Andrey Khromkin | 0-1 | 28 | Open |
| 42 | 2023-10-03 | Titled Tue 3rd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Alexander Reprintsev | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 37 | Open |
| 43 | 2023-10-03 | Titled Tue 3rd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Swaminathan Soumya | Patrik Aalto | 1-0 | 43 | Open |
| 44 | 2023-10-03 | Titled Tue 3rd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Swaminathan Soumya | Antoine Bournel | 1-0 | 29 | Open |
| 45 | 2023-10-03 | Titled Tue 3rd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Matthias Dann | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 55 | Open |
| 46 | 2023-10-03 | Titled Tue 3rd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Swaminathan Soumya | Roman Novoselov | 0-1 | 33 | Open |
| 47 | 2023-01-17 | Titled Tue 17th Jan Early | chess.com INT | 9 | Iulian Necula | Swaminathan Soumya | 0-1 | 50 | Open |
| 48 | 2023-01-17 | Titled Tue 17th Jan Early | chess.com INT | 8 | Swaminathan Soumya | Maria Larina | 0-1 | 30 | Open |
| 49 | 2023-01-17 | Titled Tue 17th Jan Early | chess.com INT | 7 | Kim Yew Chan | Swaminathan Soumya | 1-0 | 27 | Open |
| 50 | 2023-01-17 | Titled Tue 17th Jan Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Swaminathan Soumya | Jeronimo Real Pereyra | 0-1 | 28 | Open |