Nihal SarinAge 20


Source: chessbase.in

Title
Grandmaster
Live Rating
2691.6
Live Rank
#38
FIDE Rating
2696
World Rank
#33
India Rank
#8
FIDE Peak Rating
2698 - Mar 2024 (Age 19)
FIDE Peak Rank
#33 (2696) - Jun 2025 (Age 20)
Rapid
2676 World #30, Peak 2679 (Nov 2024)
Blitz
2695 World #28, Peak 2711 (Sep 2024)
Born
13 Jul 2004
Thrissur, Kerala, India
FIDE ID 25092340
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Active Years:
2011 - 2025
Total Games:
1357
Wins:
549 (40%)
Losses:
227 (17%)
Draws:
581 (43%)
Total score:
62%
Performance :
Performance for the last active 12 months:
2675
White:
D02 London System (52 games)
D00 Amazon Attack (19 games)
A06 Nimzo-Larsen Attack (17 games)
Black:
B06 Modern Defense (20 games)
D02 London System (17 games)
C54 Italian Game (16 games)

Titles:

  • Candidate Master (2014)
  • FIDE Master (2015)
  • International Master (2017)
  • Grandmaster (2018).

Championships:

  • Numerous youth championships in Kerala state and India
  • World U10 Champion (2014) – winning the CM title
  • Runner-up U12 World Championship 2015
  • Round 2 of the 2019 World Cup
  • Round 3 of the 2021 World Cup
  • Round 3 of the 2023 World Cup.

Best Tournament Results:

  • Tied for the second place (4th on tiebreak) at the Fagernes International in 2017.
  • Won the Silver Lake Open 2021 in Serbia
  • Won the Serbia Open Masters in 2021.
  • Won chess.com’s Junior Speed Chess Championship in 2021
  • Equal first (6th on tiebreak) Capella La Grande 2022
  • Member of the Indian Team that won the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020.

Best Team Results:

Member of the Indian Team that won gold at the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020.

Online:

  • Won the U18 World Championship held online in 2020
  • Won chess.com’s Junior Speed Chess Championship (JSCC) 2020.
  • Won the Capechecs Online Trophy on October 25, 2020.
  • Member of the Indian team that came second at the Asian Teams Online Championship 2020.
  • Won the 2020 Super Juniors Cup

Ratings achievements:

  • 2300+ March 2016 (aged 11)
  • 2400+ April 2017 (aged 13)
  • 2500+ December 2017 (aged 13)
  • 2600+ June 2019 (aged 15)
  • 2700+ (live rating) October 2023 (aged 19)

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Games

#White PlayerRatingBlack PlayerRatingResultMovesSiteDate 
1
Gelfand, Boris
2622
Nihal, Sarin
26760-150London12 Jun 2025board
2
Chinguun, Sumiya
2271
Nihal, Sarin
26760-145London12 Jun 2025board
3
Nihal, Sarin
2676
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
27011-044London12 Jun 2025board
4
Oro, Faustino
2457
Nihal, Sarin
26761-061London12 Jun 2025board
5
Nihal, Sarin
2676
Nogerbek, Kazybek
25311-053London11 Jun 2025board
6
Firouzja, Alireza
2753
Nihal, Sarin
26761-077London11 Jun 2025board
7
Nihal, Sarin
2676
Samadov, Read
24641-060London11 Jun 2025board
8
Orozbaev, Eldiyar
2376
Nihal, Sarin
26760-158London11 Jun 2025board
9
Niemann, Hans Moke
2736
Nihal, Sarin
26931/2-1/253Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
10
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Niemann, Hans Moke
27360-142Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
11
Niemann, Hans Moke
2736
Nihal, Sarin
26931/2-1/239Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
12
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Niemann, Hans Moke
27360-118Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
13
Niemann, Hans Moke
2736
Nihal, Sarin
26931/2-1/235Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
14
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Niemann, Hans Moke
27361-043Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
15
Niemann, Hans Moke
2736
Nihal, Sarin
26931-046Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
16
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Niemann, Hans Moke
27360-141Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
17
Niemann, Hans Moke
2736
Nihal, Sarin
26930-114Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
18
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Niemann, Hans Moke
27361-045Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
19
Niemann, Hans Moke
2736
Nihal, Sarin
26931-047Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
20
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Niemann, Hans Moke
27360-145Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
21
Niemann, Hans Moke
2736
Nihal, Sarin
26930-139Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
22
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Niemann, Hans Moke
27361/2-1/268Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
23
Niemann, Hans Moke
2736
Nihal, Sarin
26931-029Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
24
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Niemann, Hans Moke
27361/2-1/263Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
25
Niemann, Hans Moke
2736
Nihal, Sarin
26931-076Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
26
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Niemann, Hans Moke
27361-037Endgame.AI INT8 Jun 2025board
27
Gorshtein, Ido
2560
Nihal, Sarin
26931/2-1/262Dubai4 Jun 2025board
28
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Sokolovsky, Yahli
25391-054Dubai3 Jun 2025board
29
Zemlyanskii, Ivan
2563
Nihal, Sarin
26931-058Dubai2 Jun 2025board
30
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Grebnev, Aleksey
25561/2-1/233Dubai1 Jun 2025board
31
Muradli, Mahammad
2603
Nihal, Sarin
26931/2-1/256Dubai31 May 2025board
32
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Parkhov, Yair
25141-066Dubai30 May 2025board
33
Rohit, Krishna S
2490
Nihal, Sarin
26931/2-1/237Dubai29 May 2025board
34
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Prraneeth, Vuppala
24741-024Dubai28 May 2025board
35
Borgaonkar, Akshay
2453
Nihal, Sarin
26930-139Dubai27 May 2025board
36
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Daneshvar, Bardiya
26211-034Al Ain15 May 2025board
37
Sethuraman, SP.
2552
Nihal, Sarin
26930-134Al Ain14 May 2025board
38
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Jumabayev, Rinat
25511-041Al Ain13 May 2025board
39
Meng, Yihan
2443
Nihal, Sarin
26930-138Al Ain12 May 2025board
40
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Lobanov, Sergei
25270-144Al Ain11 May 2025board
41
Pranav, Anand
2555
Nihal, Sarin
26931/2-1/280Al Ain10 May 2025board
42
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Mahdavi, Reza
24451-034Al Ain9 May 2025board
43
Nihal, Sarin
2693
Matinian, Nikita
24201-037Al Ain8 May 2025board
44
Bersamina, Paulo
2426
Nihal, Sarin
26931/2-1/260Al Ain7 May 2025board
45
Bersamina, Paulo
2426
Nihal, Sarin
26931/2-1/280Al Ain7 May 2025board
46
Nihal, Sarin
2687
Karthikeyan, Murali
26510-161Ciutadella27 Apr 2025board
47
Lu, Shanglei
2618
Nihal, Sarin
26871/2-1/258Ciutadella26 Apr 2025board
48
Nihal, Sarin
2687
Md, Imran
24331-030Ciutadella26 Apr 2025board
49
Santiago, Yago de Moura
2475
Nihal, Sarin
26870-124Ciutadella25 Apr 2025board
50
Nihal, Sarin
2687
Ivanchuk, Vassily
26040-170Ciutadella24 Apr 2025board