.jpg) Lalit at the 2017 National Chess Championship | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1993-01-05)5 January 1993 (age 33) Vijayawada,Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Chess career | |
| Country | India |
| Title | Grandmaster (2012) |
| FIDE rating | 2511 (February 2026) |
| Peak rating | 2594 (March 2019) |
Musunuri Rohit Lalit Babu (born 5 January 1993) is an Indianchess player. He was awarded the title ofGrandmaster byFIDE in 2012. He is the 4th GrandMaster from Andhra Pradesh, part of the team that won India's first bronze medal in the41st Chess Olympiad in 2014,[1] Commonwealth gold medalist, Asian silver medalist, won theIndian Chess Championship in 2017, and Limca Book record holder. He has won 20 individual gold, 15 individual silver and 14 individual bronze medals in National as well as international tournaments.[citation needed]
He was born inVijayawada,[2]Krishna District,Andhra Pradesh. Lalith Babu took the silver medal at the Asian Junior Chess Championship in 2008 and as a result he was awarded the title ofInternational Master.[3] He achieved the title of Grandmaster after scoringnorms atBalaguer in October 2008,Chennai Open in 2010 andHastings Masters in 2012.[2]
He won theLeiden chess tournament in the Netherlands in 2009.[4] The following year, Lalith Babu took the bronze medal at the Parsvnath Commonwealth Championship inNew Delhi.[5] He won theCommonwealth Chess Championship in 2012 at Chennai[6][7] and won the Chennai Super Kings International Grandmaster tournament in 2013 on tiebreak overLu Shanglei.[8]
In 2014, he played on the Indian national team in the41st Chess Olympiad inTromsø, Norway winning the team bronze medal.[9] He won the 55thNational Premier Chess Championship of India, held inPatna in November 2017, to become the Indian national chess champion.[10][11] He went on winning the National rapid 2018 championship and finished second in the National blitz.[12] Lalith Babu he won theSCO Open, held from the 14 to the 22 October 2018 in the town ofXingtai,Hebei, China.[13]
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