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Nihal Sarin
Nihal Sarin (born 13 July 2004) is an Indian chess grandmaster and chess prodigy. In 2018, he passed the Elo rating of 2600 at 14 years old, which at the time m

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Nihal's first coach was Mathew P. Joseph Pottoore, a chess coach at his school. Nirmal E P, the Kerala State Champion, started training Nihal when he was eight years old.

Nihal was trained by Dimitri Komarov from 2013 to 2019. He was also trained by Srinath Narayanan from 2016 to 2022.[70] Since late 2020, Nihal is also trained by Viswanathan Anand as part of the WestBridge-Anand Chess AcademAs a junior player, Nihal was the World Under-10 champion in 2014[2] and placed second in the 2015 World Under-12 championship.[3][4] Nihal won the Gold Medal as part of the Indian team in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020.[5] He won the U-18 World Youth Championship held online in rapid format in 2020.[6]y.