Prraneeth Vuppala Age, Girlfriend, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Prraneeth Vuppala

Prraneeth Vuppala is an Indian chess participant, who turned the 82nd grandmaster of India and the sixth grandmaster from the state of Telangana.

He belongs to Ilagadapa village within the Nalgonda district of Telangana.

When he was two and a half years outdated, he used to recite Bhagawad Geeta shlokas and ship dialogues. He additionally started to attract at that age.

In childhood, his mother and father took him to play tennis, swimming lessons, and different sports activities. Later, he started to take chess lessons and developed an curiosity in enjoying chess. He realized some fundamental guidelines of chess by watching his mother and father play after which he joined a chess membership for practising.

A childhood photograph of Prraneeth Vuppala along with his family

He joined the Ramaraju Academy of Chess Education and obtained chess coaching from Ramaraju for round seven years.

He has additionally educated with the Israeli chess grandmaster Victor Mikhalevski.

He gained the State Championship Under–7 in 2013 and Under-9 in 2015.

Apart from chess, he additionally gained National ABACUS Championship in 2016 and 2016.

In 2017, he gained Hyderabad District Under-11. In the identical 12 months, he participated in Telangana State Under-11.

In 2018, he took half in lots of chess tournaments together with the 4th IIFL Wealth Mumbai Op, Capablanca Men IM, Narcis 7 GM, FSIM in Budapest, third IIFL Wealth Mumbai Open, and eleventh Triandria Open.

In 2019, he participated in lots of chess tournaments together with Netanya Open, thirty seventh Balaton GM, and Bavarian Championship.

In 2022, he participated in First Saturday GM in Budapest, Hungary.

Prraneeth Vuppala throughout a match at First Saturday GM 2022 in Budapest

In March 2023, he took half in MPL National Teams Chess Championship held in Jammu, India.

In May 2023, he appeared within the Baku Open event and defeated GM Hans Niemann of the United States within the penultimate spherical. He obtained 2,500 FIDE ranking factors and have become the 82nd grandmaster of India.

BREAKING News: Prraneeth Vuppala turns into India’s 82nd Grandmaster

IM Prraneeth Vuppala turned India’s 82nd Grandmaster when he beat GM Hans Niemann (USA) within the penultimate spherical of Baku Open 2023

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Congratulations to Prraneeth, his family & his group pic.twitter.com/VwmNd4BGJd

— ChessBase India (@ChessbaseIndia) May 14, 2023

On 15 May 2023, after Prraneeth Vuppala turned India’s 82nd grandmaster, he and his family had been invited by, the Chief Minister of Telangana, K. Chandrashekar Rao to the Secretariat. The CM congratulated him and his family and gave him a reward of Rs. 2.5 crores to supply him with monetary assist in order that he can afford superior chess coaching.

A day after he returned from Europe, India’s 82nd GM Prraneeth Vuppala met the Chief Minister of Telangana Okay. Chandrashekar Rao, who has promised an quantity of Rs. 2.5 crores (US$300,000) in order that Prraneeth can practice and put together properly in his journey to grow to be an excellent GM.#chess pic.twitter.com/JZcUNDGgqC

— ChessBase India (@ChessbaseIndia) May 15, 2023

In an interview, on being requested about how he felt after turning into the 82nd grandmaster of India and his future targets. He mentioned,

I’m blissful and I’ll hold working exhausting. My subsequent goal is to succeed in 2,600 ranking factors. I didn’t set any deadline however need to obtain it as quickly as attainable. My objective is to realize 2,800 ranking factors and grow to be the World Champion. But as of now, my focus is on my subsequent event. I’m going to take part within the Asian Continental event in Kazakhstan beginning subsequent month.”

He trains by himself in the course of the event, and on common days, he learn books about chess and performs chess on-line with a number of gamers; this retains him lively and on his toes. He additionally likes to learn books about chess champions’ historical past.