Achieving a FIDE chess rating of 2700 is a significant achievement as it places a player among the elite Grandmasters of the world. A 2700 rating is a testament to exceptional skill, strategic depth, and consistency in performance. Of course, chess players who reach 2700 must overcome many setbacks in order to reach the highest echelon of the game.
Magnus Carlsen playing chess against Aravindh Chithambaram.
Aravindh Chithambaram is the latest Indian Grandmaster to join the 2700 club. This major accomplishment has been a longtime in the making so, to honor this, I decided to post a winning chess move from when he participated in the 2011 World Junior Championship in Chennai, India. At the time of this winning chess move, Aravindh was just 11 years old and had a rating of 2212. Now at 24, GM Aravindh Chithambaram has made it to 2700!
What is white’s winning move (Aravindh Chithambaram vs. Jean Herman, round 5 of the 2011 World Junior Championship, Chennai, India, 08/06/2011)?
Chris Torres is a nationally renowned scholastic chess coach working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His classes have attracted players of strengths ranging from rank beginners to world champions. A chess professional since 1998, Chris is widely recognized as one of the main driving forces behind the explosion in popularity and sudden rise in quality of scholastic chess in California. Chris Torres served as the President of the Torres Chess and Music Academy from 2005-2020 and currently is recognized as a correspondence chess master with the United States Chess Federation. Since 1998 Chris Torres has taught 6 individual national champions as well as led multiple school teams to win national championship titles. In addition, Chris Torres has directed and taught at 10 different schools which have been California State Champions at chess. In 2011 and 2012, several former and current students of Chris Torres have been selected to represent the United States at the World Youth Chess Championships. Mr. Torres’ hobbies include playing classical guitar and getting his students to appear on the national top 100 chess rating lists.
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