Harikrishnan A Ra
Indian chess player
Harikrishnan Amirthavalli Rangarajan is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is coached by grandmaster Shyam Sundar M.
Chess career
In April 2024, he won the Noisiel Blitz Rating Open with a perfect score of 9/9. He also finished with an unbeaten 7/9 score in the >1900 Open A event, finishing in third place after tiebreaks behind Li Min Peng and Marco Materia.
In May 2024, he tied for first with grandmaster Abdulla Gadimbayli in the Ljubljana Chess Festival with a score of 7.5/9, losing in the tiebreaks and being ranked in second place.
In July 2025, he became India's 87th Grandmaster after a draw against grandmaster P. Iniyan in the final game of the La Plagne International Chess Festival.
“Harikrishnan A Ra” enters the record as indian chess player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Harikrishnan, Indian and chess can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Harikrishnan A Ra” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Harikrishnan, Indian and chess provides the most credible route into that argument.
The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27525692. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024, 1900 and 2025.
A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.
- Establishing names and roles
- Building a first chronology
- Locating cited institutions
Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Harikrishnan A Ra”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Harikrishnan A Ra primary sources, Harikrishnan A Ra archive and Harikrishnan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Harikrishnan A Ra”?
- Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
- How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Harikrishnan A Ra” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.