Musunuri Rohit Lalit Babu (born 5 January 1993) is an Indian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by

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in 2012. He is the 4th GrandMaster from Andhra Pradesh, part of the team that won India's first bronze medal in the

41st Chess Olympiad The 41st Chess Olympiad ( no, Den 41. Sjakkolympiade), organised by the FIDE, Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took pla ...

, Commonwealth gold medalist, Asian silver medalist, won the

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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. He was born in Vijayawada,

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, 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 of

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. He achieved the title of Grandmaster after scoring

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s at Balaguer in October 2008, Chennai Open in 2010 and Hastings Masters in 2012. He won the Leiden chess tournament in the Netherlands in 2009. The following year, Lalith Babu took the bronze medal at the Parsvnath Commonwealth Championship in New Delhi. He won the

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in 2012 at Chennai and won the Chennai Super Kings International Grandmaster tournament in 2013 on tiebreak over

Lu Shanglei Lu Shanglei (; born 10 July 1995) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and 2014 World Junior Chess Champion. Career In 2010, Lu played on the Chinese team (alongside Yu Yangyi, Wang Chen, and Wang Jue) that won the 5th Vladimir Dvorkovich Cup, a j ...

. In 2014, he played on the Indian national team in the

in Tromsø, Norway winning the team bronze medal. He won the 55th National Premier Chess Championship of India, held in Patna in November 2017, to become the Indian national chess champion. He went on winning the National rapid 2018 championship and finished second in the National blitz. Lalith Babu he won the SCO Open, held from the 14 to the 22 October 2018 in the town of Xingtai, Hebei, China.

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