Vishnu Prasanna

Vishnu Prasanna, born in Chennai in 1989,
is an Indian chess grandmaster, coach and author.
In 2013, he became India’s 33rd grandmaster and reached his peak rating of 2543 in 2017.
Prasanna is particularly well known as the long-time coach of future World Champion D. Gukesh,
whom he began working with in 2017 and guided from a promising junior to the world elite.
He has also worked with players including Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Leon Luke Mendonca and Nihal Sarin.
In 2022, Prasanna founded a chess club in Chennai with his wife
and also plays a leading role in the coaching programme at the Hatsun Chess Academy in Tamil Nadu.
His coaching approach combines individually tailored chess training
with the development of independent thinking and the player as a whole.