1. Parimarjan Negi (1993)

Indian Chess Player

Indian chess Grandmaster and former child prodigy.

2. Abhijeet Gupta (1989)

Indian Chess Player

Highly rated Indian Grandmaster chess player who, in 2010, won the Bronze medal in the Asian chess championship at Subic Bay in Philippines

3. Dibyendu Barua (1966)

Indian Chess Player

A chess player who first won the national championship in 1983 and then became a Grandmaster in 1991.

4. Ridit Nimdia (2004)

Indian Chess Player

Indian chess prodigy who made waves in the world of chess by becoming the youngest FIDE-rated player in the world at 4 years and 270 days old. He also became...

5. Surya Shekhar Ganguly (1983)

Indian Chess Player

An Indian chess Grandmaster who set a record for being the youngest player to beat a Grandmaster when he was 11 years old.

6. Deep Sengupta (1988)

Indian Chess Player

Deep Sengupta is a chess player from Jharkhand India who now resides in Kasba. Rated at 2540 Elo he is India's 22nd grandmaster. and is ranked 4th in Indian Chess...

7. Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (1994)

Indian Chess Player

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi is an Indian chess player. Currently aged 19 he attained the title of a Grandmaster in January 2013 aged 18 years and 3 months. He is currently...

8. Nadig Kruttika (1988)

Indian Chess Player

Nadig Kruttika is a chess player from Maharashtra India. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and is winner of India's premier national women's chess championship. Kruttika played for India...

9. Vishal Sareen (1973)

Indian Chess Player

Vishal Sareen is a chess International Master.

10. Ramachandran Ramesh (1976)

Indian Chess Player

Ramachandran Ramesh is an Indian chess grandmaster from Chennai who won the 2002 British Championship and 2007 Commonwealth Championship. He is married to WGM Aarthie Ramaswamy.

11. Umakant Sharma (1982)

Indian Chess Player

Umakant Sharma is an Indian chess player who in 2006 was banned from playing competitive chess for ten years due to cheating. Umakant was caught during the Subroto Mukerjee tournament...

12. Magesh Chandran Panchanathan (1983)

Indian Chess Player

Magesh Chandran Panchanathan is an Indian chess Grandmaster. In 2003 he won Asian Junior Championship in Sri Lanka. In 2005 he tied for first with Kamil Mitoń in the 33rd...

13. Rohini Khadilkar (1963)

Indian Chess Player

Rohini Khadilkar is a former women's chess champion of India. She won the Indian Chess Championship five times and the Asian Chess Championship twice. She was the recipient of the...

14. Dronavalli Harika (1991)

Indian Chess Player

Dronavalli Harika is an Indian chess grandmaster. She gradually came to prominence winning the World Youth Chess Championship in the Girls' Under-14 and Under-18 categories. In 2011 she won the...

15. Eesha Karavade (1987)

Indian Chess Player

Eesha Karavade is a chess player from Pune India. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and International Master. Her current Elo rating is 2365. She plays for India in...

16. Praveen Thipsay (1959)

Indian Chess Player

Praveen Mahadeo Thipsay is an Indian chess Grandmaster. He won the Indian Chess Championship in 1982 1984 1985 1989 1992 1993 and 1994 and played for India in the Chess...

17. Diptayan Ghosh (1998)

Indian Chess Player

Diptayan Ghosh is a chess player from Kolkata India. He became the under-10 Asian champion at the 2008 Youth Chess Championship in Tehran Iran and is a student at the...

18. Ivana Maria Furtado (1999)

Indian Chess Player

Ivana Maria Furtado is a chess prodigy from Goa India. She won the Under-8 World Youth Chess Championship twice in a row in 2006 and 2007 and won second place...

19. Geetha Narayanan Gopal (1989)

Indian Chess Player

G. N. Gopal is an Indian Chess Grand Master from Cochin Kerala. He was initiated to chess by his father at the age of 10. Gopal became Kerala's first Grand...

20. Tania Sachdev (1986)

Indian Chess Player

Tania Sachdev is an Indian chess player who holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.

21. Srinath Narayanan (1994)

Indian Chess Player

Srinath Narayanan is a former chess prodigy from Chennai India. His talent in chess was recognized when he beat his father in a chess game at the age of five....

22. Darpan Inani (1994)

Indian Chess Player

Darpan Inani is a prolific blind Indian chess player from Vadodara. He is the second highest rated blind chess player in India with an ELO rating of 2041 as of...