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Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha Age, Family, Biography

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Age: 3
Nationality: Indian
Hometown: Sagar, Madhya Pradesh

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha

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Profession(s)• Chess Player
• Student
Known forBeing the youngest-ever FIDE-rated chess player as of 2025
Physical Stats
Eye ColourBlack
Hair ColourBlack
Personal Life
Date of BirthYear, 2022
Age (as of 2025)3 Years
BirthplaceSagar, Madhya Pradesh, India
NationalityIndian
HometownSagar, Madhya Pradesh
ReligionHinduism
Family
ParentsFather- Siddharth Singh
Mother- Neha Singh Kushwaha
Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha with his parents and grandmother

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha

  • In 2024, when he was 2.5 years old, Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha began practising chess for four to five hours each day. He spent one hour of this time at a chess training centre in Sagar.
  • The rest of the time, he played online chess games and also watched videos to learn chess tactics.

  • His parents started teaching him chess mainly to help him spend less time on mobile phone or television.

  • According to his father, Siddharth Singh, he started teaching Sarwagya chess in 2024. He then noticed that Sarwagya learned things very fast. After one week of lessons, Sarwagya could name all the chess pieces correctly.

  • Sarwagya started loving the game so much that if his parents woke him at midnight and asked him to play, he would play for hours without stopping.

  • Reportedly, his patience to sit at the board and stay calm for a long time made him different from other kids.

    Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha while practising chess

    Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha while practising chess

  • His coach, Nitin Chaurasiya, once stated in the media that Sarwagya seemed like a normal kid at first when he joined Nitin’s training centre. Soon, Sarwagya’s chess skills started to stand out.

  • Nitin added in the same conversation that, in the beginning, coaching Sarwagya was hard because he cried easily if corrected. Then, the coach used a different method to lure Sarwagya, such as giving him a toffee or chips for good moves.

  • Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha then started answering questions quickly without any hesitation and playing well against older kids in chess with courage and confidence.

    Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha during a chess championship

    Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha during a chess championship

  • In December 2025, Sarwagya made headlines when he became the youngest grandmaster in history to get a FIDE rating. He was ranked 1572nd in the FIDE rankings.

  • He became the only child born in 2022 listed in the rating database.
  • Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha beat the record of three-year-old Anish Sarkar, who became well-known worldwide for showing advanced chess moves in 2024. Anish learned chess by watching YouTube videos and reached a FIDE rating of 1555, the youngest to do so in that year.

  • Sarwagya played his first chess match at the 24th RCC International FIDE Rated Rapid Cup in Mangaluru, where he beat 22-year-old Abhijeet Awasthi, rated 1542.

  • After that, he participated in the FIDE Rapid Rating Chess Championship held in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, where he defeated 29-year-old Shubham Chourasiya, rated 1559.

  • Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha then defeated 20-year-old Yogesh Namdev, rated 1696, at a chess tournament held in Indore.

  • In December 2025, he beat Abhijeet Awasthi again at the G.H. Raisoni Memorial Chhindwara International FIDE Rapid Chess Tournament held in Chhindwara.

    Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha standing next to international master Akshat Khamparia, who is the convenor of Madhya Pradesh Chess Ad-Hoc Committee, at Dr Ajit Kasliwal Memorial All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating Chess Tournament in Indore

    Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha while standing next to international master Akshat Khamparia, who is the convenor of Madhya Pradesh Chess Ad-Hoc Committee, at Dr Ajit Kasliwal Memorial All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating Chess Tournament in Indore