Seven-year-old Lakshan is coached by Selvabharathy, a trainer at Vishnu Prasanna's Chess Academy in Chennai, India in the southern state of Tamil Nadu — seen as the epicenter of chess in the country. A third of India's 88 grand masters are born in Tamil Nadu, whose chess schools make it, in the words of one chess coach, the "factory of Indian chess." (Viraj Nayar)
