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List Of Indian Chess Players
Amongst Indian chess players there are 76 Grandmasters (GM); 124 International Masters (IM); 18 Woman Grandmasters (WGM), including some who also hold the higher IM title; and 42 Woman International Masters (WIM) as of January 2021, according to FIDE, the International Chess Federation. As of January 2021, the top 10 active Indian chess players have an average rating of 2670, the 4th highest in the world, behind Russia, the United States, and China. The top 10 active women Indian players have an average rating of 2405, the 3rd highest in the world behind China and Russia. As of 2020, 19 different players have been conferred with the highest civilian and sports honours of India, including the Padma awards and the Arjuna Award. Viswanathan Anand was the first sportsperson to receive the second-highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan, in 2008 and the inaugural highest sports award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (now called Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award), in 1991–92. Top players T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess In India
Chess has risen in popularity in India in the last few decades primarily due to chess Grandmaster and former 5-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand. It is believed that chess originated from Chaturanga of ancient India. The All India Chess Federation is the governing body for chess in India. Indian Chess in Numbers Records / Firsts * First National Champion: Ramchandra Sapre (1955). * First Indian International Master: Manuel Aaron (1961). * First Indian Grandmaster: Viswanathan Anand (1988). * First Indian Women's Grandmaster: Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (2001). * First Indian participation in a Chess Olympiad: 1956, 12th Chess Olympiad at Moscow. * First Blind Chess Olympiad hosted by India: 2012, 14th Blind Chess Olympiad in Chennai. * First Indian Asian Senior Chess Champion (65+): Wazeer Ahmad Khan, 6th Asian Seniors at Lar in 2015. * Youngest Indian Grandmaster: R Praggnanandhaa at the age of 12. (2018) * Maximum number of Indian National Championship wins: 9 by Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arjun Erigaisi
Arjun Erigaisi (born 3 September 2003) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is the reigning Indian national chess champion. He earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 13 days, making him the 32nd youngest person ever to achieve the title of grandmaster. He is the 54th grandmaster from India. Career 2015–2018 In 2015, Arjun won a silver medal in the 2015 Asian Youth Championship in Korea. In 2018, he became the first grandmaster from Telangana state. 2021 2021 was a strong year for Arjun Erigaisi, as he became the first Indian to qualify to the Goldmoney Asian Rapid of the Champions Chess Tour 2021 ahead of Alireza Firouzja, Daniil Dubov, Peter Svidler and Vidit Gujrathi, only losing to Levon Aronian in tie breaks in a hard-fought match. In October 2021, Arjun placed 2nd at the Junior U21 Round Table Open Chess Championship (Classical) held in Bulgaria. He scored 7/9, along with Alexey Sarana. In November 2021, Arjun placed 3rd/82 in the Lind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eesha Karavade
Eesha Karavade (born 21 November 1987) is a chess player from Pune, India. She holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She played for India in the Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014. Achievements *won the Shiv Chhatrapati Award conferred by Govt. of Maharashtra in 2004. *in 2011: first runner-up, with 8 points out of 11 rounds, in the 38th National Women's Premier Chess Championship at Chennai, which was won by Mary Ann Gomes. *Gold Medalist Commonwealth Chess Championship 2011 in South Africa. *Bronze medalist Asian Individual Women Chess Championship 2011 in Iran. *part of the women chess team that ranked 4th at the 40th Chess Olympiad 2012 at Istanbul. *part of the women chess team that won a gold medal in the Blitz format and silver medal in the Rapid and Standard format at Asian Nations Cup 2014 at Tabriz Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divya Deshmukh
Divya Deshmukh (born 9 December 2005) is an Indian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM) from Maharashtra. She won the 2022 Women's Indian Chess Championship. She also won an individual bronze medal at the 2022 Chess Olympiad. She was also part of the gold medal-winning FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 team. As of September 2023, she is the 7th ranked woman chess player in India. In 2023, in Almaty she won Asian Women's Chess Championship. She then finished first in the women's rapid section of the Tata Steel India Chess Tournament, despite being the bottom seed. At the tournament, she defeated Harika Dronavalli, Vantika Agrawal, Koneru Humpy, Savitha Shri B, Irina Krush, and Nino Batsiashvili, drew against Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun and Anna Ushenina, and suffered her only loss to Polina Shuvalova Polina Sergeevna Shuvalova (russian: Полина Сергеевна Шувалова; born 12 March 2001) is a Russian chess player. She holds the FIDE titles of International Mast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vantika Agrawal
Vantika Agrawal (born 28 September 2002) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster. Biography In 2016, Agrawal won bronze medal in World Youth Chess Championship U14 girls age group. In 2020 she, with Indian national team, won FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020. In 2021 Vantika Agrawal won silver medal in Indian Junior Girls Online Chess Championship and won gold medal in Indian Junior Senior Women Chess Championship. At the same year she also won FIDE Binance Business Schools Supercup. In November 2021 in Riga Vantika Agrawal ranked in 14th place in FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021. She received the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title in 2021 and the Woman International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ... (WIM) title in 2017. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhakti Kulkarni
Bhakti Kulkarni (born 19 May 1992) is an Indian chess player. She received the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2012 and International Master (IM) in 2019. She is the recipient of Arjuna Award for her contribution to chess Biography In 2011, she won the Asian Junior Chess Championship. In 2013, she was the first at the international women's chess tournament in Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ... — ''Open Vysočina''. In 2016, she won the Asian Chess Women Championship. Played for Indian team in the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship, in which she participated twice (2009, 2016). In the individual competition won the bronze (2009) medal. References External links * * * 1992 births Living people Indian female chess play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padmini Rout
Padmini Rout (born 5 January 1994) is an Indian chess player. She holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a four-time National Women's Premier title holder consecutively from 2014-2017 and was the Asian women's champion of 2018. Rout was honoured with the Biju Patnaik Sports Award for the year 2007 and the Ekalavya Award in 2009. Career In 2005 Rout won her first national title, under-11 girls at Nagpur. In 2006, she was both the Indian under-13 girls champion and the Asian under-12 girls champion.Personalities: Padmini Rout ''Orisports.com'' Rout won the U14 girls' section of both Asian and World Youth Chess Championsh ...
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Tania Sachdev
Tania Sachdev (born 20 August 1986) is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a two-time Indian women's chess champion in 2006 and 2007, one-time Asian women's chess champion in 2007 and three-time and current Commonwealth Women's Chess Champion in 2016, 2018 and 2019. She is also a chess presenter and commentator. Early years Born in Delhi, Sachdev was introduced to the game by her mother, Anju, at the age of 6. Her parents provided her with professional training. She achieved her first international title when she was eight. She was coached by K.C. Joshi during her early years. As a child, Tania Sachdev won multiple events. Her career successes are under-12 Indian champion, Asian U14 girls' champion in 2000 and bronze medalist at the 1998 World Youth Chess Championships in the Girls U12 division. In 2002, she won the Asian Junior Girls Championship in Marawila. National and international acclai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savitha Shri B
Savitha Shri Baskar (born 2007) is an Indian chess woman FIDE Master (2020) from the state of Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ..., India. In the April 2021 FIDE ratings she was the highest-rated girl born in 2007 or later. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Shri B, Savitha 2007 births Living people Indian female chess players Indian chess players Game players from Tamil Nadu Sportspeople from Chennai Tamil sportspeople Chess players at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in chess Asian Games silver medalists for India Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games Chess Woman International Masters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaishali Rameshbabu
Rameshbabu Vaishali (born 21 June 2001) is an Indian chess player from Chennai who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Personal life Vaishali Rameshbabu born in a Tamil family in Chennai. She is the elder sibling of Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa. Her father, Rameshbabu, works at TNSC Bank as a branch manager. Her mother, Nagalakshmi, is a homemaker. Career Vaishali won the Girls' World Youth Chess Championship for Under-12s in 2012 and Under-14s in 2015. In 2016, she received the Woman International Master (WIM) title. , she is ranked second in India and World No.12 girl U16-player. At that time, she had an Elo rating of 2300. She became a Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by completing her final norm in the Riga Technical University Open chess tournament in Riga, Latvia on 12 August 2018. Vaishali was the part of the Gold medal-winning team at Online Olympiad 2020, where India won its first ever medal. She received her International Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harika Dronavalli
Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Dronavalli was honored with the Arjuna Award for the year 2007–08 by the government of India. In 2016, she won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix event at Chengdu, China and rose up from world no. 11 to world no. 5 in FIDE women's ranking. Vladimir Kramnik, Judit Polgar and Viswanathan Anand are her chess inspirations. In 2019, she was awarded the Padma Shri for her contributions towards the field of sports. Early life Harika was born to Ramesh and Swarna Dronavalli on 12 January 1991 in Guntur where she attended Sri Venkateswara Bala Kuteer school Her father works as a deputy executive engineer at a Panchayat Raj subdivision in Mangalagiri. She started playing chess at a very young age and won a medal in the under-9 national championship. She followed it up with a silve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishnan Sasikiran
Krishnan Sasikiran (Tamil: கிருஷ்ணன் சசிகிரண்; born 7 January 1981) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He was one of Viswanathan Anand's seconds in the World Chess Championship 2013. Chess career Born in Madras, Sasikiran won the Indian Chess Championship for the first time in 1999 and won it again in 2002, 2003 and 2013. In 1999 he also won the Asian Junior Chess Championship in Vũng Tàu, Vietnam. Sasikiran completed the requirements for the Grandmaster title at the 2000 Commonwealth Championship. In 2001, he won the prestigious Hastings International Chess tournament. In 2003, he won the 4th Asian Individual Championship as well as the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen. Sasikiran tied with Jan Timman for first place in the 2005 Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament, which took place in Malmö and Copenhagen. In 2006, he tied for first place at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow with Baadur Jobava, Victor Bologan and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, finishing third on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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