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Ashwath Kaushik is an 8 year old Indian boy who was born in India but has been living in Singapore for the past 6 years. He became the youngest chess player to beat a grandmaster in the classical version of the game.
Ashwath Kaushik defeated Polish chess grandmaster Jacek Stopa at the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open on Sunday. He has broken the record that was previously held by Leonid Ivanovic from Serbia. He was also 8 years old but many months older than Kaushik. He defeated 60 year old Bulgarian grandmaster Milko Popchev at the Belgrade Open around a week ago.
Kaushik is ranked 37,338 in the world on FIDE. He was first noted when he won triple gold in the Under -8 category of the Eastern Asian Youth Championship in 2022 when he was just 6 years old.. He became the World Under 8 Rapid Champion the same year.
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