Krishnan Sasikiran Biography 
Krishnan Sasikiran is an Indian chess player and has 5th rank in Asia and 59th rank in the world in FIDE as on July 2011. He is often called as Sasi. He was born on 7th January 1981 in Chennai in Tamil Nadu. He got Grandmaster title at the 2000 Commonwealth Championship. He also won the Hastings International Chess tournament in the year 2001. In 2003, he emerged as the winner of the fourth Asian Individual Championship and Politiken Cup in Copen hagen.
His father Krishnan was also an excellent chess player and was the first coach of the international master Sundararajan Kidambi. Krishnan Sasikiran started playing the game when he was nine. Under his father’s guidance he soon could rise to the Domestic Chess Circuit and won the Under 18 National Chess Championship. He also won many other domestic championships. He won the Indian National A Chess Championship in 1999.
He studied at Modern Senior Secondary School at Nanganallur in Chennai. He won City of Pamplona international Chess tournament in December 2008 by an impressive one point margin. He won the Gold medal in the Asian Games 2006 and Tamil Nadu government gave him a cash prize of INR 20 lakhs.
His international debut was in the year 1995 against Tomas Oral of Czech Republic. However he lost the game after 31 moves. He got the Under 18 title in the Commonwealth Games. He has also won the British Under-21 Chess Championship two times and represented Indian National Chess team at the Elista Chess Olympiad 1998. He won the Asian Junior Chess Championship in 1999. He got third place at Benasque Open Chess Tournament 1998.
The year 2000 was the golden year for him as he got the Pentamedia Category XI Grand Master Tournament at Chennai. He earned second norm for the Grand Master title at Asian Chess Championship at Udaipur and third norm at the Goodricke International Open Chess Tournament at Kolkata. He became the International Grand Master at the age of 19. He was given Arjuna Award by Government of India in the year 2002.
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Updated: December 24, 2012
