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GMSantosh Gujrathi Vidit

IND Born 1994 (Age ≈32) Male
FIDE ID
5029465

About Santosh Gujrathi Vidit

Vidit Gujrathi grew up in Nashik, where his parents worked in healthcare. He attended Fravashi Academy and received chess coaching from an early age. In 2008 he became world under-fourteen champion, completing his international master requirements at the same event. Show more

Vidit Gujrathi grew up in Nashik, where his parents worked in healthcare. He attended Fravashi Academy and received chess coaching from an early age. In 2008 he became world under-fourteen champion, completing his international master requirements at the same event. He won world under-sixteen silver the following year. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title in 2013, making him India's thirtieth grandmaster. He won the Tata Steel Challengers in 2018 and the Biel festival in 2019. In 2020 he captained India to a shared gold medal in the Online Olympiad. He reached the World Cup quarterfinals in both 2021 and 2023. His victory at the 2023 Grand Swiss qualified him for the 2024 Candidates Tournament. He also won the Gashimov Memorial in 2023. In 2024 he helped India win its first open over-the-board Olympiad gold in Budapest. The same year he earned team gold and individual silver at the European Club Cup. In April 2025 he married Nidhi Kataria.

FIDE ratings

2693.0

Classical

Published FIDE

2625

Rapid

Published FIDE

2677

Blitz

Published FIDE

Official classical ranks

World rank
#35
National rank · IND
#6

Active players · Nov 2026 FIDE list ⓘ

Rating milestones

Highest recorded rating
2747 Feb 2024
Recorded years
2004–2026
Archived games
3156

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Rating history

FIDE rating history

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Games

Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-11-11 (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
2551 2018-02-28 Aeroflot Open A 2018 Moscow RUS 9.11 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Aleksej Aleksandrov 1/2-1/2 40 Open
2552 2018-02-27 Aeroflot Open A 2018 Moscow RUS 8.2 Aleksey Sorokin Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 0-1 36 Open
2553 2018-02-26 Aeroflot Open A 2018 Moscow RUS 7.18 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Alireza Firouzja 1/2-1/2 83 Open
2554 2018-02-25 Aeroflot Open A 2018 Moscow RUS 6.18 Nodirbek Abdusattorov Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1/2-1/2 29 Open
2555 2018-02-24 Aeroflot Open A 2018 Moscow RUS 5.17 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Rasmus Svane 1/2-1/2 25 Open
2556 2018-02-23 Aeroflot Open A 2018 Moscow RUS 4.15 Yinglun Xu Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1/2-1/2 26 Open
2557 2018-02-22 Aeroflot Open A 2018 Moscow RUS 3.14 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Manuel Petrosyan 1/2-1/2 87 Open
2558 2018-02-21 Aeroflot Open A 2018 Moscow RUS 2.12 Eesha Karavade Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1/2-1/2 60 Open
2559 2018-02-20 Aeroflot Open A 2018 Moscow RUS 1.2 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Narayanan S L 1/2-1/2 30 Open
2560 2018-02-14 PRO League Group Stage chess.com INT 6 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Dmitry Andreikin 1-0 50 Open
2561 2018-02-14 PRO League Group Stage chess.com INT 6 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Aleksey Ivlev 1-0 25 Open
2562 2018-02-14 PRO League Group Stage chess.com INT 6 Mikhail Demidov Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1/2-1/2 41 Open
2563 2018-02-14 PRO League Group Stage chess.com INT 6 Nodirbek Abdusattorov Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 0-1 41 Open
2564 2018-01-28 80th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED 13.1 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Jorden Van Foreest 1/2-1/2 24 Open
2565 2018-01-27 80th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED 12.6 Olga Girya Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 0-1 26 Open
2566 2018-01-26 80th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED 11.4 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Anton Korobov 1/2-1/2 31 Open
2567 2018-01-24 80th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED 10.4 Jeffery Xiong Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1/2-1/2 48 Open
2568 2018-01-23 80th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED 9.6 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Matthias Bluebaum 1/2-1/2 44 Open
2569 2018-01-21 80th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED 8.7 Dmitry Gordievsky Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 0-1 32 Open
2570 2018-01-20 80th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED 7.3 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Lucas Van Foreest 1/2-1/2 36 Open
2571 2018-01-19 80th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED 6.1 Benjamin Bok Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1/2-1/2 31 Open
2572 2018-01-17 80th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED 5.7 Erwin L'Ami Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1/2-1/2 18 Open
2573 2018-01-16 80th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED 4.5 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Harika Dronavalli 1-0 39 Open
2574 2018-01-15 80th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED 3.4 Bassem Amin Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 0-1 59 Open
2575 2018-01-14 80th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED 2.1 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Michal Krasenkow 1-0 27 Open
2576 2018-01-13 80th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED 1.2 Aryan Tari Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1/2-1/2 37 Open
2577 2017-12-30 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 21.18 Andrey Esipenko Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 0-1 55 Open
2578 2017-12-30 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 20.1 Ian Nepomniachtchi Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1-0 69 Open
2579 2017-12-30 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 19.6 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Liren Ding 0-1 67 Open
2580 2017-12-30 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 18.7 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1/2-1/2 36 Open
2581 2017-12-30 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 17.11 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit A.R. Saleh Salem 1-0 42 Open
2582 2017-12-30 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 16.11 Yangyi Yu Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1/2-1/2 70 Open
2583 2017-12-30 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 15.13 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Rauf Mamedov 1-0 55 Open
2584 2017-12-30 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 14.2 Ruslan Ponomariov Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 0-1 63 Open
2585 2017-12-30 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 13.3 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Vladimir Dobrov 1-0 89 Open
2586 2017-12-30 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 12.17 Peter Leko Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1-0 80 Open
2587 2017-12-29 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 9.43 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Mohammed Al-Sayed 1-0 66 Open
2588 2017-12-29 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 8.38 Jorden Van Foreest Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1/2-1/2 36 Open
2589 2017-12-29 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 7.25 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Boris Savchenko 0-1 37 Open
2590 2017-12-29 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 6.1 Zaven Andriasian Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1-0 45 Open
2591 2017-12-29 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 5.4 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 0-1 70 Open
2592 2017-12-29 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 4.8 Vasyl Ivanchuk Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 0-1 37 Open
2593 2017-12-29 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 3.16 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Pentala Harikrishna 1-0 33 Open
2594 2017-12-29 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 2.25 Noaman Omar Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1/2-1/2 52 Open
2595 2017-12-29 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 11.22 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Levon Aronian 1-0 104 Open
2596 2017-12-29 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 10.29 Volodymyr Onyshchuk Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 1/2-1/2 66 Open
2597 2017-12-29 World Blitz 2017 Riyadh KSA 1.53 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Daniel King Wai Lam 1-0 32 Open
2598 2017-12-28 World Rapid 2017 Riyadh KSA 15.26 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Francisco Vallejo Pons 1/2-1/2 23 Open
2599 2017-12-28 World Rapid 2017 Riyadh KSA 14.39 14104202 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 0-1 53 Open
2600 2017-12-28 World Rapid 2017 Riyadh KSA 13.35 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Surya Shekhar Ganguly 1/2-1/2 72 Open
  1. vs Aleksej AleksandrovDraw · ½–½White · 2018-02-28 · Round 9.11Aeroflot Open A 2018
  2. vs Aleksey SorokinWon · 0-1Black · 2018-02-27 · Round 8.2Aeroflot Open A 2018
  3. vs Alireza FirouzjaDraw · ½–½White · 2018-02-26 · Round 7.18Aeroflot Open A 2018
  4. vs Nodirbek AbdusattorovDraw · ½–½Black · 2018-02-25 · Round 6.18Aeroflot Open A 2018
  5. vs Rasmus SvaneDraw · ½–½White · 2018-02-24 · Round 5.17Aeroflot Open A 2018
  6. vs Yinglun XuDraw · ½–½Black · 2018-02-23 · Round 4.15Aeroflot Open A 2018
  7. vs Manuel PetrosyanDraw · ½–½White · 2018-02-22 · Round 3.14Aeroflot Open A 2018
  8. vs Eesha KaravadeDraw · ½–½Black · 2018-02-21 · Round 2.12Aeroflot Open A 2018
  9. vs Narayanan S LDraw · ½–½White · 2018-02-20 · Round 1.2Aeroflot Open A 2018
  10. vs Dmitry AndreikinWon · 1-0White · 2018-02-14 · Round 6PRO League Group Stage
  11. vs Aleksey IvlevWon · 1-0White · 2018-02-14 · Round 6PRO League Group Stage
  12. vs Mikhail DemidovDraw · ½–½Black · 2018-02-14 · Round 6PRO League Group Stage
  13. vs Nodirbek AbdusattorovWon · 0-1Black · 2018-02-14 · Round 6PRO League Group Stage
  14. vs Jorden Van ForeestDraw · ½–½White · 2018-01-28 · Round 13.180th Tata Steel GpB
  15. vs Olga GiryaWon · 0-1Black · 2018-01-27 · Round 12.680th Tata Steel GpB
  16. vs Anton KorobovDraw · ½–½White · 2018-01-26 · Round 11.480th Tata Steel GpB
  17. vs Jeffery XiongDraw · ½–½Black · 2018-01-24 · Round 10.480th Tata Steel GpB
  18. vs Matthias BluebaumDraw · ½–½White · 2018-01-23 · Round 9.680th Tata Steel GpB
  19. vs Dmitry GordievskyWon · 0-1Black · 2018-01-21 · Round 8.780th Tata Steel GpB
  20. vs Lucas Van ForeestDraw · ½–½White · 2018-01-20 · Round 7.380th Tata Steel GpB
  21. vs Benjamin BokDraw · ½–½Black · 2018-01-19 · Round 6.180th Tata Steel GpB
  22. vs Erwin L'AmiDraw · ½–½Black · 2018-01-17 · Round 5.780th Tata Steel GpB
  23. vs Harika DronavalliWon · 1-0White · 2018-01-16 · Round 4.580th Tata Steel GpB
  24. vs Bassem AminWon · 0-1Black · 2018-01-15 · Round 3.480th Tata Steel GpB
  25. vs Michal KrasenkowWon · 1-0White · 2018-01-14 · Round 2.180th Tata Steel GpB
  26. vs Aryan TariDraw · ½–½Black · 2018-01-13 · Round 1.280th Tata Steel GpB
  27. vs Andrey EsipenkoWon · 0-1Black · 2017-12-30 · Round 21.18World Blitz 2017
  28. vs Ian NepomniachtchiLost · 1-0Black · 2017-12-30 · Round 20.1World Blitz 2017
  29. vs Liren DingLost · 0-1White · 2017-12-30 · Round 19.6World Blitz 2017
  30. vs Shakhriyar MamedyarovDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-12-30 · Round 18.7World Blitz 2017
  31. vs A.R. Saleh SalemWon · 1-0White · 2017-12-30 · Round 17.11World Blitz 2017
  32. vs Yangyi YuDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-12-30 · Round 16.11World Blitz 2017
  33. vs Rauf MamedovWon · 1-0White · 2017-12-30 · Round 15.13World Blitz 2017
  34. vs Ruslan PonomariovWon · 0-1Black · 2017-12-30 · Round 14.2World Blitz 2017
  35. vs Vladimir DobrovWon · 1-0White · 2017-12-30 · Round 13.3World Blitz 2017
  36. vs Peter LekoLost · 1-0Black · 2017-12-30 · Round 12.17World Blitz 2017
  37. vs Mohammed Al-SayedWon · 1-0White · 2017-12-29 · Round 9.43World Blitz 2017
  38. vs Jorden Van ForeestDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-12-29 · Round 8.38World Blitz 2017
  39. vs Boris SavchenkoLost · 0-1White · 2017-12-29 · Round 7.25World Blitz 2017
  40. vs Zaven AndriasianLost · 1-0Black · 2017-12-29 · Round 6.1World Blitz 2017
  41. vs Maxime Vachier-LagraveLost · 0-1White · 2017-12-29 · Round 5.4World Blitz 2017
  42. vs Vasyl IvanchukWon · 0-1Black · 2017-12-29 · Round 4.8World Blitz 2017
  43. vs Pentala HarikrishnaWon · 1-0White · 2017-12-29 · Round 3.16World Blitz 2017
  44. vs Noaman OmarDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-12-29 · Round 2.25World Blitz 2017
  45. vs Levon AronianWon · 1-0White · 2017-12-29 · Round 11.22World Blitz 2017
  46. vs Volodymyr OnyshchukDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-12-29 · Round 10.29World Blitz 2017
  47. vs Daniel King Wai LamWon · 1-0White · 2017-12-29 · Round 1.53World Blitz 2017
  48. vs Francisco Vallejo PonsDraw · ½–½White · 2017-12-28 · Round 15.26World Rapid 2017
  49. vs 14104202Won · 0-1Black · 2017-12-28 · Round 14.39World Rapid 2017
  50. vs Surya Shekhar GangulyDraw · ½–½White · 2017-12-28 · Round 13.35World Rapid 2017