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Chess Grandmasters in India

Chess Grandmasters in India...

Chess Game has 66 Grand Masters in India. In 1987, Indian chess magician Vishwanad Anand became the first Grand Master of India and ruled the international chess scene for the next decades. After 33 years, G. Akash of Chennai became the 66th Grand Master on July 2020. Major list of chess grandmasters in India from Vishwanad Anand to Akash.
India got its first Grandmaster in 1984, having to wait for almost a decade for this list. But with the availability of high quality guidance, more players are now following the legacy of Vishwanand Anand. Nevertheless, we are far behind in the number of Grandmasters because chess actually originated from our land.

List of Grandmasters:-

Name of the Player Rating State Year of becoming GrandMaster
1. Anand, Viswanathan 2753 Tamil Nadu 1987
2. Dibyendu Barua 2561 West Bengal 1991
3. Thipsay, Praveen M 2418 Maharashtra 1997
4. Kunte, Abhijit 2499 Maharashtra 2000
5. Sasikiran, Krishnan 2675 Tamil Nadu 2000
6. Harikrishna, P. 2748 Andhra Pradesh 2001
7. Koneru Humpy 2623 Andhra Pradesh 2002
8. Ganguly, Surya Shekhar 2658 West Bengal 2003
9. Sandipan, Chanda 2529 West Bengal 2003
10. Ramesh R B 2472 Tamil Nadu 2004
11. Bakre, Tejas 2427 Gujarat 2004
12. Panchanathan, Magesh 2480 Tamil Nadu 2006
13. Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 2520 Tamil Nadu 2006
14. Neelotpal, Das 2468 West Bengal 2006
15. Negi, Parimarjan 2639 Delhi 2006
16. Gopal G.N. 2593 Kerala 2007
17. Gupta, Abhijeet 2609 Rajasthan 2008
18. Arun Prasad, S. 2501 Tamil Nadu 2008
19. Sundararajan, Kidambi 2427 Tamil Nadu 2009
20. Laxman, R.R. 2457 Tamil Nadu 2009
21. Sriram, Jha 2392 Delhi 2010
22. Deep Sengupta 2557 West Bengal 2010
23. Adhiban, B. 2650 Tamil Nadu 2010
24. Sethuraman, S.P. 2624 Tamil Nadu 2011
25. Harika, Dronavalli 2503 Andhra Pradesh 2011
26. Lalith Babu M R 2531 Andhra Pradesh 2012
27. Vaibhav, Suri 2597 Delhi 2012
28. Venkatesh, M.R. 2487 Tamil Nadu 2012
29. Sahaj Grover 2484 Delhi 2012
30. Roy Chowdhury, Saptarshi 2494 West Bengal 2013
31. Vishnu Prasanna. V 2505 Tamil Nadu 2013
32. Akshayraj, Kore 2482 Maharashtra 2013
33. Shyam, Sundar M. 2639 Tamil Nadu 2013
34. Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi 2718 Madhya Pradesh 2013
35. Debashis, Das 2533 Odisha 2013
36. Ankit, R. Rajpara 2465 Gujarat 2014
37. Aravindh,Chithambaram VR. 2609 Tamil Nadu 2015
38. Karthikeyan, Murali 2617 Tamil Nadu 2015
39. Ashwin, Jayaram 2484 Tamil Nadu 2015
40. Swapnil, S. Dhopade 2526 Maharashtra 2015
41. Narayanan.S.L 2611 Kerala 2015
42. Ghosh, Diptayan 2555 West Bengal 2016
43. Gagare, Shardul 2510 Maharashtra 2016
44. Kannappan Priyadharshan 2513 Tamil Nadu 2016
45. Narayanan, Srinath 2525 Tamil Nadu 2017
46. Puranik, Abhimanyu 2520 Maharashtra 2017
47. Aryan Chopra 2509 Delhi 2017
48. Anurag, Mhamal 2484 Goa 2017
49. Himanshu, Sharma 2411 Haryana 2017
50. Thejkumar, M. S. 2493 Karnataka 2017
51. Saptarshi Roy 2500 West Bengal 2018
52. R. Praggnanandhaa 2529 Tamil Nadu 2018
53. Nihal Sarin 2578 Kerala 2018
54. Arjun Erigaisi 2548 Telangana 2018
55. Karthik Venkatraman 2515 Telangana 2018
56. Harsha Bharathakoti 2509 Telangana 2018
57. P Karthikeyan 2617 Tamil Nadu 2018
58. Stany G A 2517 Karnataka 2018
59. NR Visakh 2505 Tamil Nadu 2019
60. Gukesh D. 2522 Tamil Nadu 2019
61. P. Iniyan 2509 Tamil Nadu 2019
62. Swayams Mishra 2479 Odisha 2019
63. Girish Koushik 2501 Karnataka 2019
64. Prithu Gupta 2493 Delhi 2019
65. Raunak Sadhwani 2545 Maharashtra 2019
66. Aakash 2495 Tamil Nadu 2020
67. Leon Mendonca 2571 Goa 2020
68. Arjun Kalyan 2537 Tamil Nadu 2021
69. Harshit Raja 2501 Harshit Raja 2021
70. Raja Rithvik 2502 Telangana 2021
71. Sankalp Gupta 2536 Tamil Nadu 2021
72. Mitrabha Guha 2512 West Bengal 2021
73. Bharath Subramaniyam 2508 Tamil Nadu 2022
74. Rahul Srivatshav P 2506 Telangana 2022
75. V Pranav 2519 Tamil Nadu 2022
76. Pranav Anand 2525 Karnataka 2022
77. Aditya Mittal 2505 Maharashtra 2022
78. Koustav Chatterjee 2520 West Bengal 2022
79. Pranesh M 2493 Tamil Nadu 2023

The legacy of Indian best GrandMasters is started from the Viswanath Anand, the undisputed World Chess champion from 2007 – 2013. Continuing his bequest, Akash from Chennai, TamilNadu became the 66th and the lastest Grand Master from India in July 2020.

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