He was born in
Vijayawada,
Krishna District,
Andhra Pradesh. Lalith Babu took the silver medal at the Asian Junior Chess Championship in 2008 and as a result he was awarded the title of
International Master. He achieved the title of Grandmaster after scoring
norms at
Balaguer in October 2008,
Chennai Open in 2010 and
Hastings Masters in 2012. The following year, Lalith Babu took the bronze medal at the Parsvnath Commonwealth Championship in
New Delhi. He won the
Commonwealth Chess Championship in 2012 at Chennai and won the Chennai Super Kings International Grandmaster tournament in 2013 on tiebreak over
Lu Shanglei. In 2014, he played on the Indian national team in the
41st Chess Olympiad in
Tromsø, Norway winning the team bronze medal. He won the 55th
National Premier Chess Championship of India, held in
Patna in November 2017, to become the Indian national chess champion. He went on winning the National rapid 2018 championship and finished second in the National blitz. Lalith Babu he won the
SCO Open, held from the 14 to the 22 October 2018 in the town of
Xingtai,
Hebei, China. == References ==