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Raja Panjwani

Number of games in database: 294
Years covered: 1999 to 2025
Last FIDE rating: 2446 (2385 rapid, 2395 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2485
Overall record: +112 -86 =71 (54.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 25 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (19) 
    B54 B87 B92 B30 B43
 Queen's Pawn Game (15) 
    E00 A45 D00 A46 D02
 English (11) 
    A15 A17 A13 A14
 King's Indian (8) 
    E92 E60 E90 E62 E94
 Slav (8) 
    D12 D10 D11 D17
 French Defense (7) 
    C11 C01 C03 C10
With the Black pieces:
 King's Indian (32) 
    E94 E73 E61 E71 E62
 Sicilian (28) 
    B30 B32 B90 B39 B97
 Ruy Lopez (10) 
    C65 C67 C84
 English (10) 
    A14 A10 A16
 Queen's Gambit Declined (8) 
    D38 D30 D35 D37
 Robatsch (7) 
    B06
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   R Panjwani vs A Ramirez Alvarez, 2020 1/2-1/2
   R Panjwani vs I Krush, 2014 1-0
   Z Qin vs R Panjwani, 2012 0-1
   M Mulyar vs R Panjwani, 2001 1/2-1/2
   R Panjwani vs A Tuxanidy Torres, 2009 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   9th Edmonton International (2014)
   Canadian Open (2009)
   Reykjavik Open (2014)
   London Chess Classic Open (2013)
   Sardinia World Open A (2025)
   Canadian Open (2007)
   Canadian Championship (2004)
   34th World Open (2006)
   World Junior Championship (2010)
   Canadian Open (2005)
   American Continental (2018)
   Chennai Olympiad (2022)
   Grenke Chess Open (2025)
   Pro Chess League (2018)
   Gibraltar Masters (2020)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   2009 Canadian Zonal Championship by gauer

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 American Continental
   R Panjwani vs F Ferrari Pironti (May-26-25) 1-0
   R Panjwani vs J Baules (May-24-25) 0-1
   A Alves de Almeida Jr vs R Panjwani (May-24-25) 0-1
   R Panjwani vs A Raimundo (May-23-25) 1-0
   Z O Kalosha vs R Panjwani (May-03-25) 1/2-1/2

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RAJA PANJWANI
(born Apr-10-1990, 35 years old) Canada

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He is an IM and the 2009 Canadian Junior Champion. He was ranked 25th in the Canadian listings(2) for September 2009. He won the 2004 Canadian U-14 Open with 7.5/8 and the 2006 Canadian U-16 Open with 6.5/7. His score of 4/7 at the Canadian junior championship was sufficient for shared 5th-6th place. During 1999-2000, he was the U-10 Champion of Labrador and Newfoundland. He tied for share of 5th-9th at the 2016 Calgary International(3) tournament.

Teams

Free-agents Bator Sambuev and Thomas Roussel-Roozmon (they do not live close enough to Toronto's suburban area) signed on to the Toronto Dragons(6) team, which includes himself, Nikolay Noritsyn, Gergely Szabo, Kaiqi Yang, Arthur Calugar, Michael Song, Shiyam Thavandiran and Razvan Preotu for play after 2016.

Raja previously played for the New York Knights(5) (in 2015), Western University, Yale and Oxford in team chess events.

References / Sources

(1) http://www.canadianchesszonal.com/x...,

(2) http://www.chess.ca/ (Canadian chess site),

(3) http://www.calgary-international.co...,

(4) http://www.uschesschamps.com/bio/ra... (both he and fellow Canadian Yuanling Yuan were Yale chess club members),

(5) http://uschessleague.com/players-20... (United States Chess League),

(6) https://www.chess.com/article/view/... (also see https://www.facebook.com/todragonsc... for details).

Wikipedia article: Raja Panjwani

Last updated: 2025-05-12 16:36:17

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 page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 308  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. L Gerzhoy vs R Panjwani  1-0501999Canadian Junior ChampionshipE94 King's Indian, Orthodox
2. M Mulyar vs R Panjwani  ½-½392001Canadian OpenA16 English
3. R Panjwani vs I Khairullin  0-1312003World Youth Championship (U14)A05 Reti Opening
4. Lenderman vs R Panjwani  1-0412003World Youth Championship (U14)B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
5. R Panjwani vs R Goletiani  0-1542004Canadian OpenA07 King's Indian Attack
6. R Panjwani vs K Spraggett  0-1352004Canadian OpenA80 Dutch
7. V Krayushkin vs R Panjwani  ½-½262004Canadian OpenA08 King's Indian Attack
8. A M Smith vs R Panjwani  0-1402004Canadian OpenD38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation
9. R Panjwani vs E Miller  ½-½152004Canadian OpenB12 Caro-Kann Defense
10. R Panjwani vs J Yoos  1-0392004Canadian ChampionshipB54 Sicilian
11. G Mikanovic vs R Panjwani  ½-½462004Canadian ChampionshipD86 Grunfeld, Exchange
12. R Panjwani vs I Ivanov  0-1402004Canadian ChampionshipA01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
13. I Divljan vs R Panjwani  1-0712004Canadian ChampionshipD38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation
14. R Panjwani vs P Saint-Amand 1-0572004Canadian ChampionshipB62 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer
15. R Panjwani vs G Huber  1-0412004Canadian ChampionshipB25 Sicilian, Closed
16. V Voskanian vs R Panjwani  0-1502004Canadian ChampionshipE61 King's Indian
17. L Day vs R Panjwani 1-0472004Canadian ChampionshipC00 French Defense
18. R Panjwani vs R Hamilton  0-1472004Canadian ChampionshipA67 Benoni, Taimanov Variation
19. R Panjwani vs G Margvelashvili  1-0252004Wch U14B12 Caro-Kann Defense
20. D Ludwig vs R Panjwani  1-0482004Wch U14B40 Sicilian
21. D Ippolito vs R Panjwani  1-05620057th Foxwoods OpenE61 King's Indian
22. R Panjwani vs J Friedel  0-14020057th Foxwoods OpenC46 Three Knights
23. R Panjwani vs N Arias  1-0392005Foxwoods op 07thC01 French, Exchange
24. R Panjwani vs R Burnett 0-16320057th Foxwoods OpenB06 Robatsch
25. M Zlotnikov vs R Panjwani  ½-½2320057th Foxwoods OpenA10 English
 page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 308  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jun-17-14  Edmontonchessclub: IM Panjwani's next tournament, competing against top GMs Wesley So and Vassily Ivanchuk, is featured here on Chessgames: 9th Edmonton International (2014)

The 9th Edmonton International starts this Saturday, June 21st.

Jul-12-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: Raja Panjwani remains the only player perfect through 3 rounds of the Canadian Championship. In R4, he'll face top seed Bator Sambuev with black.
Oct-16-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: "A modern-day Renaissance man from Kitchener, Canada, Raja Panjwani holds the title of International Master and attends a master’s program in International and Development Economics at Yale University. He previously earned an MSt in Philosophy of Physics from Oxford, and an undergraduate degree in physics and philosophy from Western University in Canada.

“At Yale, I’m also part of the chess club, and we’ve got some strong members: GM Robert Hess, WIM Yuanling Yuan and WGM Anya Corke,” he says.

Panjwani’s family is from India and was living in Kuwait in 1990 when the first Gulf War began. They moved to Canada to join Panjwani’s uncle, and Panjwani was born there.

At the age of five he learned chess from his parents, who both enjoy the game. He recently earned his first Grandmaster norm at the SPICE Cup this past October 2014, and needs two more to earn the title, as well as push his rating past FIDE 2500.

In his sporadic free time, Panjwani enjoys playing basketball and following the professional sport. In addition to chess and graduate school, Panjwani started an organization called Sage: School for Young Writers. This program connects budding writers with established authors in genres such as poetry and fiction. The authors teach writing courses and mentor individual writers as well. Sage also provides academic writing coaches, such as history PhD students who critique papers of undergraduate students. "

https://uschesschamps.com/bio/raja-...

Mar-27-22  Albertan: Popularity of chess in India spills over into Canada:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/lif...

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