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IND · 28 yrs · K=20 · Peak 2326 (Sep 2025)

Best performance: 2421 at 31st AbuDhabi International Chess Festival-Blitz - Open(Best of 2025)

World #=5959 live, down 26#5,933 publishedIndia #=211Asia #=1333among active players

NOV26 Rating

2155

Live Rating

2156.0

Change

+1.0

Games Played

9

How live ratings are calculated

Rating History · Blitz

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Blitz rating 2326 to 2155 over the last 12 months; peak 2326 in September 2025.

Official rating by month

Each month: the rating, its change from the list before, and the rated games FIDE counted.

ListClassicalRapidBlitz
Nov 20262382, 0, 0 games2142, -17, 44 games2155, -26, 26 games
Oct 20262382, 0, 0 games2159, 0, 0 games2181, 0, 0 games
Sep 20262382, 0, 0 games2159, -9, 9 games2181, 0, 0 games
Aug 20262382, 0, 0 games2168, -25, 9 games2181, 0, 0 games
Jul 20262382, -12, 5 games2193, +7, 9 games2181, 0, 0 games
Jun 20262394, 0, 0 games2186, -10, 18 games2181, +8, 18 games
May 20262394, 0, 0 games2196, +37, 18 games2173, -12, 9 games
Apr 20262394, 0, 0 games2159, -32, 19 games2185, -91, 18 games
Mar 20262394, 0, 0 games2191, -26, 25 games2276, 0, 0 games
Feb 20262394, +2, 9 games2217, +43, 35 games2276, -46, 19 games
Jan 20262392, 0, 0 games2174, +13, 9 games2322, -4, 11 games
Dec 20252392, 0, 0 games2161, +15, 17 games2326, 0, 0 games

Form · Blitz

oldest → latest

Unbeaten in the last 3 games (3 wins), since Nov 14. Longest unbeaten run in 2026: 22 games, May 3 – Oct 9.

From 284 blitz games on record, the latest on Nov 14.

Blitz games since the November list

Show gamesTournamentScoreChange
UNSTOPPABLE LBHM 2026, 28TH All India Open FIDE Rating Blitz Chess TournamentNov 14TPR 20807½/9+1.0

Title Progress

International Master (FIDE, registered 2025)

10th Chennai Open International Grand Master Chess TournamentJan 20185½/10
CZECH OPEN 2019 - A - GM openJul 20195½/9
ST: 26. Open ZadarDec 20195½/9

Based on events we cover plus the FIDE norm registers of all federations. Norms filed elsewhere may not show up here yet.

Best wins · Blitz

From 257 rated blitz games against rated opponents, 2012–2026

#OpponentRating
1, GM Bharath Subramaniyam H, Aug 2025 · 31st AbuDhabi International Chess Festival-Blitz - Open, 2521
2, GM Brandon Jacobson, Aug 2025 · 31st AbuDhabi International Chess Festival-Blitz - Open, 2501
3, GM R.R. Laxman, Apr 2022 · MPL National Blitz Chess Championship-2022, 2476

Openings · Blitz

From the moves of 29 of 284 blitz games on record.

As WhiteOpens 1.e4 in 15 of 16 games.

As BlackMeets 1.e4 with 1...g6, and 1.d4 with 1...Nf6.

All openings (1 as White, 1 as Black)
Openings in White gamesGamesScore
Sicilian Defense1070%

6 more games in openings played fewer than 3 times.

Event timeline · Blitz

12 of 29 events · All years

Events before the current rating period show the performance, not a rating change.

Live events show the rating change; earlier events show the performance rating.

Performance rating by month

MonthGamesScoreAvg oppTPR
Nov 202697½18072080
Oct 2026261918041979
May 20261815½18102119
Apr 202696½17861952
Mar 2026181118831963
Jan 20261911½21022182
Dec 2025119½17882097

Games count in the month they were played. Each month and year is one performance rating over all of its rated games.

Recent opponents · Blitz

FM Avirat ChauhanCM Kolla BhaavanAlluri Bhaskara Ratna Shanmukha ReddyKapadi YashAmey ChowdhuryKathit Nikhil ShelarIshan Arjun P YRahul KadamNikhil Sunil Tanksale

Rated near Nikhil Dixit · Blitz

World

  1. #=5959Walter Schmidt2156.0
  2. #=5959IM Kundu Kaustuv2156.0
  3. #=5959IM Nikhil Dixit2156.0
  4. #=5959Ivan Tokmantsev2156.0
  5. #=5959CM Azat Khakimov2156.0

India

  1. #210CM Hriday Garg2158.0
  2. #=211IM Kundu Kaustuv2156.0
  3. #=211IM Nikhil Dixit2156.0
  4. #213Shet Prajwal P2155.4
  5. #=214FM Singh Ojasva2153.0

Live rating: FIDE’s November list plus every rated game played since. Not affiliated with FIDE.