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S. P. Sethuraman

Full name Sethuraman Panayappan Sethuraman
Country India
Born 25 February 1993
Chennai, India
Title Grandmaster
Peak rating 2651 (November 2015)

Sethuraman Panayappan Sethuraman (born 25 February 1993 in Chennai) is an Indian chess Grandmaster.

He achieved his three Grandmaster norms with shared second place and 8/10 at the Parsvnath Open in New Delhi in 2009, third place and 6.5/9 at the Paris International Championship in 2010 and winning the Voivoda Cup in Legnica with 7/9 in the same year.

In 2014 Sethuraman took team bronze medal with the Indian team at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø and won the Indian National Championship. With this win, he qualified for the Chess World Cup 2015, where he knocked out Sanan Sjugirov in round one and compatriot Pentala Harikrishna in the second round, before being eliminated by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the third one.

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