# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/swaminathan-soumya
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:02:39.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/swaminathan-soumya"
name: "Swaminathan Soumya"
slug: "swaminathan-soumya"
description: "Soumya Swaminathan is a chess player holding the title of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) from India. She won the World Junior Girls' Championship 2009 held in Puerto Madryn, Argentina, edging out Deysi Cori and Betül Cemre Yıldız on tiebreak score. She won the National Junior Girls Chess Championship (India) thrice in 2005, 2006 and 2008. She won the women's edition of National Premier Chess Championship in 2010 at Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. She withdrew from the chess championships held in Iran in 2018 as a protest against the compulsory headscarf rule for women by Iran's Islamic government."
tagline: "Indian chess player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Soumya%2CSwaminathan_2017_Karlsruhe.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1989-03-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.68
  momentum:             8.636363636363637
  historical:           12.95399733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Сваминатан Сумья"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump