Vaishali Rameshbabu
Indian chess player
Vaishali Rameshbabu (born 21 June 2001) is an Indian chess grandmaster. She is a two-time champion of the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament, winning consecutively in 2023 and 2025. Having played in two editions of the Women's Candidates Tournament, she won the 2026 edition to earn the right to challenge Ju Wenjun for the title of Women's World Chess Champion in the upcoming championship match held in 2027.
Representing India, she was part of the team that won the silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games in the women's team competition, and was a member of the team that won the gold medal in the women's event of the 45th Chess Olympiad.
Personal life
Vaishali was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on 21 June 2001. Her father, Rameshbabu, works as a branch manager at TNSC Bank, and her mother, Nagalakshmi, is a homemaker. Her younger brother R Praggnanandhaa is also a chess grandmaster; they are the first brother and sister duo to hold the title.
Career
2012-2019: Beginnings
Vaishali won the Girls' World Youth Chess Championship for Under-12s in 2012 and Under-14s in 2015. In 2013, at age 12, she defeated future World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in a simul competition that Carlsen held while in her hometown of Chennai for the World Chess Championship 2013.
She won the National Junior Girls Chess Championship (India) consequently in 2015 and 2016.
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