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The All India Chess Federation is the administrative body for the game of chess in India. Founded in 1951, the association is affiliated to the Asian Chess Federation and the International Chess Federation. Nitin Narang is the president of the federation. [2] AICF's headquarters are in New Delhi. [3]
His company India Cements owns Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise team Chennai Super Kings and he is the president of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA). [18] Srinivasan is also the president of the Tamil Nadu Golf Federation and former president of the All India Chess Federation. [19]
As of 2023, 24 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 ...
British Chess Federation "Book of the Year" Award in 1998 for his book My Best Games of Chess. [173] Anand has won the Chess Oscar in 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008. The Chess Oscar is awarded to the year's best player according to a worldwide poll of leading chess critics, writers, and journalists conducted by the Russian chess magazine 64.
As a chairman of ADC Bank, he sponsored the chess training programs in the schools of Gujarat. [12] As a president of Gujarat State Chess Association, he launched Sardar Patel Chess College, [13] first ever chess college in India, which is affiliated under Swarnim Gujarat Sports University.
The All India Chess Federation is the formal governing body, and more generally the robust institutional chess "ecosystem" of the country has been deemed (by the BBC) as one of the best, if not the best, in the world.
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen left the World Rapid and Blitz Championships on Friday, Dec. 27 after he refused to change out of his jeans in accordance with the International Chess ...
The NC Chummar Fide Rated events of which he was the main organizer set a new trend by charging the players a very low entry fees. Anilkumar initiated the organizing of the first ever chess tourism event in India, Chess Houseboat 2020. He is the President of Chess Kerala and a founder member of Chess Players Forum.