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The top 100 junior players of the world include 20 Indian players, among them Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu at Rank 2, Arjun Erigaisi at Rank 5, Gukesh D at rank 6, and Nihal Sarin at Rank 8. [7] The top 100 junior girl players of the world include 7 Indian players, among them Velpula Sarayu at rank 2, Divya Deshmukh at rank 5 and Savitha Shri B at ...
Highest-ranked French player (2013, since 2014) 8 India: Viswanathan Anand: 2817 2011-03 1969 Highest-ranked Indian player (since 1987), former world champion (2007–2013, FIDE 2000–2002), formerly world no. 1 (2007, 2008, 2010, 2011) Soviet Union Russia: Vladimir Kramnik: 2817 2016-10 1975
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: Gukesh D at the age of 12 (2018)
He is India's first chess player to be awarded the FIDE Title of International Master, and is one of the key figures in introducing international chess practices to India; until the 1960s, Indian chess (known as chaturanga) was often played using many local traditional variants [3] (e.g. in lieu of castling, the king could execute a knights ...
N. R. Anil Kumar (born 30 May 1957), also known as N. R. Anilkumar, is an Indian chess player who participated in the 25th Chess Olympiad in 1982. He is the first Indian chess player to achieve International Master title from the International Correspondence Chess Federation. [1] [2] [3]
Chess player Vaishali Rameshbabu followed in the family tradition by becoming a grandmaster on Friday.. Vaishali, 22, became only the third woman in India to earn the title, but she is not the ...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) governs international chess competition. Each month, FIDE publishes the lists "Top 100 Players", "Top 100 Women", "Top 100 Juniors" and "Top 100 Girls" and rankings of countries according to the average rating of their top 10 players and top 10 female players in the classical time control.
Pravin Mahadeo Thipsay (born 12 August 1959) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He is the first Indian to get a chess Grandmaster Norm and the first Indian to win the Commonwealth Chess Championship .