Aravindh Chithambaram Veerappan[1][2] (born 11 September 1999)[1] is an Indian chess grandmaster.

His father died when he was three and his mother worked as a Life Insurance Corporation agent to support the family.

He learned to play chess at the age of seven from his paternal grandfather, who introduced him to the game in an attempt to quell his desires to constantly leave the house and play cricket with other boys.

He competed in the World U14 Chess Championship in 2012, placing second to Kayden Troff.

[4] He won his first major tournament in 2013 when he scored 9/11 for a performance rating of 2728 at the Chennai Grandmaster International Open, defeating four grandmasters and two international masters in the process.