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.