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Key facts
- Born
- ( 2001-06-21 ) 21 June 2001 (age 24) , Chennai , Tamil Nadu, India
- Country
- India
- Title
- Grandmaster (2024)
- Fide rating
- 2496 (June 2026)
- Peak rating
- 2506 (August 2024)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- India
- Place of birth
- Chennai
- Sibling
- Praggnanandhaa
- Occupation
- chess player
- Award
- Arjuna Award
- Participant in
- Women's Candidates Tournament 2024
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- India
- Image
- Vaishali in 2025 (cropped).jpg
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- Elo rating
- 2452
- date of birth
- 2001-06-21
- title of chess person
- Grandmaster
- Commons category
- R Vaishali
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Vaishali Rameshbabu ( born 21 June 2001) is an Indian chess grandmaster.
She is a two-time champion of the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament, winning consecutively in 2023 and 2025. Having played in two editions of the Women's Candidates Tournament in 2024 and 2026, she won the latter tournament to earn the right to challenge Ju Wenjun for the title of Women's World Chess Champion.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vaishali Rameshbabu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.