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Full list of chess Grandmasters from India

Published at :December 3, 2023 at 9:28 AM
Modified at :December 14, 2023 at 4:50 AM
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Ankhi Dutta


Vaishali Rameshbabu recently became the third Indian female to earn the Grandmaster title.

Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from world champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain and once achieved, the title is held for life, though can be revoked for cheating.

The first GM titles were awarded to 27 players in 1950, and the qualifications to become a GM have changed throughout the years. FIDE currently awards the title of GM to a player who achieves 2500 FIDE classical (or ‘standard’) rating and three GM norms. Each GM norm is extremely difficult to attain, and there are many rules for what constitutes a norm.

As of December 2023, India boasts an impressive chess roster with 84 Grandmasters (GM), including three female players holding the esteemed title. Additionally, there are 136 International Masters (IM), with nine females among them, along with 18 woman Grandmasters (WGM) and 43 women International Masters (WIM). The country hosts a total of 33,028 rated players, with female players numbering 3,534, making up 10.7% of the total rated players in India.

Manuel Aaron secured the distinction of being India’s first titled player when he became the first International Master (IM) in 1961, while Viswanathan Anand achieved the historic feat of becoming India’s inaugural Grandmaster in 1988. The trailblazers among Indian woman in chess include Jayshree Khadilkar, who earned the WIM title in 1979 and Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi, who became the first to claim the WGM title in 2001.

The prestigious title of Grandmaster for woman in India was first attained by Koneru Humpy in 2002, while Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi became an IM in the same year. These milestones mark significant achievements in the Indian chess landscape, showcasing the remarkable talent and progress within the country’s chess community.

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List of Indian chess Grandmasters

  1. 1987 – Vishwanathan Anand, Tamil Nadu
  2. 1991 – Dibyendu Barua, West Bengal
  3. 1997 – Pravin Thipsay, Maharashtra
  4. 2000 – Abhijit Kunte, Maharashtra
  5. 2000 – K Sasikiran, Tamil Nadu
  6. 2001 – Pentala Harikrishna, AndhraPradesh
  7. 2002 – Koneru Humpy, Andhra Pradesh
  8. 2003 – Surya Sekhar Ganguly, West Bengal
  9. 2003 – Sandipan Chanda, West Bengal
  10. 2004 – RB Ramesh, Tamil Nadu
  11. 2004 – Tejas Bakre, Gujarat
  12. 2006 – P.Magesh Chandran, Tamil Nadu
  13. 2006 – Deepan Chakravarthy, Tamil Nadu
  14. 2006 – Neelotpal Das, West Bengal
  15. 2006 – Parimarjan Negi, Delhi
  16. 2007 – GN Gopal, Kerala
  17. 2008 – Abhijeet Gupta, Rajasthan
  18. 2008 – S.Arun Prasad, Tamil Nadu
  19. 2009 – S.Kidambi, Tamil Nadu
  20. 2009 – RR Laxman, Tamil Nadu
  21. 2010 – Sriram Jha, Delhi
  22. 2010 – Deep Sengupta, West Bengal
  23. 2010 – B Adhiban, Tamil Nadu
  24. 2011 – SP Sethuraman, Tamil Nadu
  25. 2011 – Harika Dronavalli, Andhra Pradesh
  26. 2012 – Lalith Babu M R, Andhra Pradesh
  27. 2012 – Vaibhav Suri, Delhi
  28. 2012 – MR Venkatesh, Tamil Nadu
  29. 2012 – Sahaj Grover, Delhi
  30. 2013 – Vidit Gujrathi, Maharashtra
  31. 2013 – Shyam Sundar M, Tamil Nadu
  32. 2013 – Akhshayraj Kore, Maharashtra
  33. 2013 – Vishnu Prasanna,Tamil Nadu
  34. 2013 – Debashis Das, Odisha
  35. 2013 – Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury, West Bengal
  36. 2014 – Ankit Rajpara, Gujarat
  37. 2015 – Aravindh Chithambaram, Tamil Nadu
  38. 2015 – Karthikeyan Murali, Tamil Nadu
  39. 2015 – Ashwin Jayaram, Tamil Nadu
  40. 2015 – Swapnil S Dhopade, Maharashtra
  41. 2015 – SL Narayanan, Kerala
  42. 2016 – Shardul Gagare, Maharashtra
  43. 2016 – Diptayan Ghosh, West Bengal
  44. 2016 – Priyadarshan K, Tamil Nadu
  45. 2017 – Aryan Chopra, Delhi
  46. 2017 – Srinath Narayanan, Tamil Nadu
  47. 2017 – Himanshu Sharma, Haryana
  48. 2017 – Anurag Mhamal, Goa
  49. 2017 – Abhimanyu Puranik, Maharashtra
  50. 2017 – Thej Kumar M S, Karnataka
  51. 2018 – Saptarshi Roy, West Bengal
  52. 2018 – Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa,Tamil Nadu
  53. 2018 – Nihal Sarin, Kerala
  54. 2018 – Erigaisi Arjun, Telangana
  55. 2018 – Karthik Venkataraman, Telangana
  56. 2018 – Harsha Bharathakoti, Telangana
  57. 2018 – P Karthikeyan, Tamil Nadu
  58. 2018 – Stany George Anthony, Karnataka
  59. 2019 – Visakh N R, Tamil Nadu
  60. 2019 – Dommaraju Gukesh, Tamil Nadu
  61. 2019 – PanneerselvamIniyan, Tamil Nadu
  62. 2019 – Swayams Mishra, Odisha
  63. 2019 – Girish Koushik, Karnataka
  64. 2019 – Prithu Gupta, Delhi
  65. 2019 – Raunak Sadhwani, Maharashtra
  66. 2020 – Akash Ganesan, Tamil Nadu
  67. 2020 – Leon Mendonca, Goa
  68. 2021 – Arjun Kalyan, Tamil Nadu
  69. 2021 – Harshit Raja, Maharashtra
  70. 2021 – Raja Rithvik, Telangana
  71. 2021 – Sankalp Gupta, Maharashtra
  72. 2021 – Mitrabha Guha, West Bengal
  73. 2022 – Bharath Subramaniyam, Tamil Nadu
  74. 2022 – Rahul Srivatshav P, Telangana
  75. 2022 – V Pranav, Tamil Nadu
  76. 2022 – Pranav Anand, Karnatka
  77. 2022 – Aditya Mittal, Maharashtra
  78. 2023 – Koustav Chatterjee, West Bengal
  79. 2023 – Pranesh M, Tamil Nadu
  80. 2023 – Vignesh N R, Tamil Nadu
  81. 2023 – Sayantan Das, West Bengal
  82. 2023 – Vuppala Prraneeth, Telengana
  83. 2023 – Aditya Samant, Maharashtra
  84. 2023 – Vaishali Rameshbabu, Tamil Nadu

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