Iniyan Panneerselvam

Panneerselvam Iniyan, born in Erode in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu in 2002,
is an Indian chess grandmaster and author.
He began playing chess at the age of five and became India’s 61st grandmaster in 2019, aged 16.
Iniyan has attended training camps with Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand in France and Chennai, among others.
In 2021, he won the Indian qualifying tournament for the FIDE World Cup.
He achieved his greatest national success to date in 2025 by winning the Indian Championship;
that same year, he reached his peak rating of 2601.
For ChessBase, Iniyan shares his extensive opening knowledge in several training courses.