Murugan Thiruchelvam

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Murugan (Thirumurugan) Thiruchelvam is an English chess player. He was England's youngest player ever to gain an international rating (2020 at the age of nine). Less than a week after his 10th birthday, he played against Garry Kasparov in a simultaneous exhibition. Kasparov singled out his game against Murugan as the best of the day. He was very impressed by the strategic understanding of the youngster. Murugan is of Sri Lankan Tamil descent and was born on December 11 – the same day as fellow Tamil Vishy Anand. He currently attends a school in South-West London.Murugan has a brother and a sister; both older. His brother is called Kumaran and is 24 years old. His sister is called Devi and is 22 years old.

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.Murugan is very keen on his music at the moment. Since taking a break from chess, he has learnt the drums and guitar and now is many rock/indie bands.Murugan is also currently working on an amateur rap cd with fellow band member Luke Pannifer as a side project. The band goes under the name of the MnM Bros, where Murugan's nickname is Mac and Luke's is Mitra and the two good friends hope to release it soon.

There are rumours that Murugan will be returning to his renowned sport soon. He surely has been missed and his fans will be ecstatic to his return, undoubtedly.

Murugan lives in new malden, surrey, UK and is currently thinking about returning to play chess and hopes to finish of where he left, undoubtedly he can be the best in world. Murugan has recently applied and been accepted as a member of mensa, he is going into his second year of advanced level study, and is studying german, maths and further maths, economics, music tech, critical thinking, tamil, chemistry and physics, he has already taken a number of these exams and achieved A grades. It seems that he has many hopes at the moment, he is a very successful musician, and is looking for a record deal, as well as playing chess. He is definitely on to watch for the present and the future. He also hopes to do some political and charitable work in his country, as he is not happy with the current state of affairs, but most likely to do this after finishing his combined honours course of tamil and economics at university.