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Baskaran Adhiban (born 1992) is an Indian chess Grandmaster ranked twelfth in the country (as of August 2013). He was Under-16 World champion and 2010 Indian champion.In the 2013 Chess World Cup Adhiban caused an upset in the first two rounds beating 2710-rated Russian GM Evgeny Alekseev in the first round and Alexandr Fier in the second round.Adhiban won the Barcelona open with score of 8.5 out of 10. This event included 23 GMs and 28 IMs.