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A Photographer, Videographer & Chess Enthusiast! Photography, Videography & Chess make me feel like I am meditating with my eyes wide open! #iamintel

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47 today! Here are my favourite memories from various chess events and a family vacation!

1. and 2. Global Chess League 2023 - what an amazing event! Visited for a couple of action packed days!
3. Tata Steel Rapid and Blitz 2023 - could visit only for 2 days of the open event this time but had a wonderful time!
4. Global Chess Festival 2023 - my favourite annual event and had fun playing 2 tournaments (+won prizes!).
5. and 6. Chennai! Chennai Masters 2023 - an unplanned visit for barely one day, yet a very special day! Group 1.e4 event 2024 - flew to Chennai for a day trip for this wonderful event and also visited Gukesh’s home with Sagar!
7. and 8. Bangalore! Few very special friends visited us at home! And it was wonderful to visit Bangalore Open!
9. Vacation! A very special family vacation at Dubai - had a wonderful time together!

#chess #chessplayers #chesstournaments #chessmasters #birthday #chesslover #chesslove #chessislife #family taken in Bangalore, India by @aksubram

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Turned 49 on May 12th - thanks for all the wishes and love! As many of you requested this and since I didn’t do a carousel last year here are 97 photos over 2 years featuring a lifetime of memories!!

Photos from WACA 2026, Parents 50th wedding anniversary, GCL 2025, World Cup 2025, Legends Match at St Louis 2025, India vs US at Dallas 2025, Global Chess Festival 2025, Chennai GM 2025, Vidit-Nidhi wedding, Breakfast at Anand’s 2025, Group 1.e4 event 2025, Gukesh-Ding World Chess Championship 2024, Tata Steel 2024, Olympiad 2024, Chennai GM 2024, Mumbai visit 2024 and WACA 2024!!! Super grateful for the amazing memories!!

#chess #birthday #chesslife #grateful #family taken in Planet Earth by @aksubram

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Turned 46 today (May 12th) - looking back at my 45th year with 32 photos from various chess events!

1) Mumbai visit a few wks after Chessbase India Club was started! Playing Sagar was fun! An absolutely wonderful trip with my family!
2) Mumbai Anish-Vidit death match! Met a lot of amazing individuals for the first time including Vidit’s parents, Robert Hess @rhess91, Samay, Suhani and Sid! Clicked one of my favourite photos of Anish celebrating after his win! And our first big experiment with heart rate monitoring using Apple Watches!
3) Chennai Olympiad - met Divya, Harshit @gmharshitraja Stev, Sethu, Swapnil, Padmini, Stany and several others for the first time! Met Aravind after exactly 5 years! The whole event during my weeks stay was a surreal experience! Never thought I’d get to do photography at this event - but thanks to Sagar and @davidllada I could do so!
4) Chennai Olympiad - Met Judit with my family and the entire Uzbek team with Sagar after their win well past midnight - after watching the closing ceremony from the front row which was totally unexpected!
5) Budapest Global Chess Festival - met Leon and Lyndon, gave a talk at the festival on how playing chess can help build leadership skills and won a chess tournament organised by Judit!
6) Arjun-Gukesh Match - one of my favourite events of last year and our second big experiment with heart rate monitoring using a dedicated heart rate monitor! Met @manugurtu, @sreekarchannapragada, @akhilesh_nagare and several others for the first time!
7) and 8) Tata Steel 2022 - one of my favourite events each year - including heart rate on the broadcast was fun and being in the same broadcast room as Anand, Tania and Sagar was absolutely enthralling! Wonderful interacting with @parham_maghsoodloo @reachvsara and @vinayakvaidya4

Another amazing experience last year was attending the WACA event at Bangalore hosted by Sagar and hearing Anand’s (@vishy.mindmaster) amazing perspectives and stories!

Super grateful for an amazing year!!

@chessbaseindia #birthday #chess #chessplayers #chesstournaments #chessmaster #chessgrandmaster taken in Bangalore, India by @aksubram

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3 years ago

Everyone talks about the big names... 👀

But Savitha Shri is quietly dominating the board. 🔥♟️

7 GAMES. 7 WINS. ABSOLUTE BEAST MODE! 🇮🇳🔥

@savithachess 🫡❤️

📸 Photos: @aksubram @fide_chess

#Chess #SavithaShriBaskar #ChessPlayer #ChessOlympiad2026 #chesscomindia

~AnuzGambit by @aksubram

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3 days ago

DAY 3/7 - THE CHESS WORLD
200+ teams. One board.
Different flags. Same game.

#chess #chessphotography #chessolympiad #chessplayer #samarkand taken in Samarkand Uzbezkistan by @aksubram

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4 days ago

DAY 2/7 - DEFENDING CHAMPIONS 🇮🇳

Strength. Experience. Youth. Ambition.
India’s women at Samarkand

#chess #chessphotography #chessolympiad #womenschess #indianchess taken in Samarkand Uzbezkistan by @aksubram

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DAY 1/7 — Samarkand 2026, through my lens!

THE DEFENDING CHAMPIONS 🇮🇳
The team. The pressure. The pursuit of another title.
Samarkand 2026, through my lens.

#chess #chessphotography #chessolympiad #indianchess #chessplayer taken in Samarkand by @aksubram

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6 days ago

The photographer behind countless chess frames, now in mine. 📸♟️

Ashwin Subramanian @aksubram sir at GCL. by @aksubram

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13 days ago

🇮🇳♟️ ALL THE BEST, TEAM INDIA! ♟️🇮🇳

The entire nation is behind you! ❤️

🔥 OPEN TEAM
♟️ Arjun Erigaisi
♟️ R Praggnanandhaa
♟️ Nihal Sarin
♟️ D Gukesh
♟️ Vidit Gujrathi

🌟 WOMEN’S TEAM
♟️ Koneru Humpy
♟️ Divya Deshmukh
♟️ R Vaishali
♟️ Vantika Agrawal
♟️ Savitha Shri

And a huge shout-out to the captains Srinath Narayanan and Swayams Mishra for leading Team India. 🇮🇳

You’ve already made history. Now go out there, fight for every square, every game and every point.

Play fearless. Play together. Make India proud. 🇮🇳🔥

🏆 ALL THE BEST, TEAM INDIA!
BRING IT HOME AGAIN! 🇮🇳♟️❤️

#ChessOlympiad #ChessOlympiad2026 #TeamIndia #IndianChess #Chess by @aksubram

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13 days ago

Tag @nihalsarin 🔥⚡️♟️
Photo credit:- @aksubram
#chess #anuzgambit #chessplayer #chesscommunity #chesslover by @aksubram

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16 days ago

Day 7/7 - The Speed Demon⚡(Chess.com’s World Bullet Chess Champion!)

From GCL to Samarkand.

The Speed Demon signed off his GCL 2026 campaign with a strong showing for the FYERS American Gambits - 6 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses across 12 games, including wins over Arjun, Wei Yi and Levon Aronian. He was instrumental in the Gambits finishing 3rd in the league stage, before helping them secure third place overall.

And now, there’s no time to slow down.

From the fast-paced world of GCL…
to the classical battlefield of Samarkand.
Board 3 for India at the 2026 Olympiad.
Samarkand awaits.

#NihalSarin #SpeedDemon #ChessOlympiad #IndianChess #ChessPhotography taken in Bangalore, India by @aksubram

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Day 6/7 - The Speed Demon⚡(Chess.com’s World Bullet Chess Champion!)

From Chennai to Samarkand.

In 2022, on home soil, a young Nihal announced himself on the Olympiad stage in style.

Board 2.
7.5/10.
Unbeaten.
Individual Gold. 🥇

And alongside his teammates, he helped India-2 secure a team Bronze in Chennai.

Four years later, the Speed Demon is back at the Olympiad.

2026 - Board 3.

Different board. Different Olympiad.
Same lightning-fast mind. Same hunger.

From the young star we watched in Chennai… to one of India’s key players in Samarkand.

The journey continues. ⚡

#NihalSarin #SpeedDemon #ChessOlympiad #IndianChess #ChessPhotography taken in Chennai, India by @aksubram

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