Sriram Jha

{{short description|Indian chess grandmaster (born 1976)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}

{{Use Indian English|date=April 2018}}

{{Infobox chess player

|name = Sriram Jha

|image =Sriram_Jha_19th_Bangkok_Chess_Club_Open.jpg

|caption = Sriram Jha, Bangkok 2019

|country = India

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1976|07|18}}

|birth_place = Madhubani, Bihar, India

|title = Grandmaster (2010)

|peakrating = 2511 (January 2010)

|FideID = 5001668

}}

Sriram Jha (born 18 July 1976) is an Indian chess Grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup 2009, for which he qualified by winning the Asian Zone 3.2 Chess Championship earlier in the same year.{{Cite web|url=http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2009/zonal-chess-new-delhi|title=Sriram Jha and Kruttika Nadig claim Asian Zone 3.2 Chess Championship|date=2009-08-17|publisher=Chessdom|access-date=2016-09-03}} Sriram Jha played for the bronze medal-winning India's C team in the Asian Team Chess Championship in 2003.Asian Team Chess Championship In 2014 he won the Indian championship of rapid chess.{{Cite web|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/sriram-venkatesh-win-indian-rapid-and-blitz|author=Sagar Shah|title=Sriram, Venkatesh win Indian Rapid and Blitz|date=2014-05-12|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=2016-09-03}}

He is married to Indian chess International Master Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mid-day.com/sports/2010/feb/140210-sriram-jha-viji-subbaraman-sports-couple-chess-grandmasters.htm|author=Manisha Mohite|title=How Sriram got inspired by wife Viji for chess battles|date=2010-02-14|website=www.mid-day.com|access-date=2016-09-03}}

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