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Krishnan Sasikiran (born January 7 1981) is an Indian chess player. Among Indians, he is third only to Vishwanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna in FIDE rating.

"Sasi" as he is sometimes called, comes from Chennai in Tamil Nadu in south-eastern India. He became an International Chess Grandmaster at the 2000 Commonwealth Championship. In 2001, he won the prestigious Hastings International Chess tournament. In 2003, he won the 4th Asian Individual Championship as well as the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen. Sasikiran tied Jan Timman for first place in the 2005 Sigeman Tournament in Copenhagen/Malmö Denmark.

In the October 2004 FIDE rating list, Sasikiran was ranked number 35 in the world with an Elo rating of 2668.

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