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Twenty individuals have been awarded the Arjuna Award for exceptional performance in chess at the international level. Manuel Aaron was the first chess player to receive this award in its inception year of 1961. [12] Rohini Khadilkar was the second chess player and first female chess player to receive this award in 1980–81. In total, seven ...
First Indian International Master: Manuel Aaron (1961) First Indian Grandmaster: Viswanathan Anand (1988) First Indian Woman Grandmaster: Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (2001) 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
In Chess Olympiad 2024, Srinath was the non-playing captain of the India Open team which won the gold medal. He is also a chess streamer and commentator, with 38k subscribers on YouTube . He has authored two courses on Chessable- the lifetime repertoires Catalan Opening for white and the lifetime repertoires Classical Sicilian for black pieces.
He was the captain of the historic gold medal-winning Indian team in Online Chess Olympiad 2020. [15] Through February and March 2022, Vidit played in the FIDE Grand Prix 2022. In the first leg, he tied for second with Daniil Dubov with 3/6 in Pool C.
Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju has become the youngest-ever world chess champion after beating defending champion China's Ding Liren in a dramatic turn on Thursday. Dommaraju, 18, is four years ...
Teenager Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest-ever undisputed classical chess world champion after beating Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in their best-of-14 final in Singapore on Thursday.
The winning margin for the host team could have been larger had R Vaishali converted a clear advantage but misplayed the position and eventually settled for a draw. [36] Georgia dominated the second Indian team by 3–1 with two wins on the lower boards where Lela Javakhishvili outplayed Soumya Swaminathan and Meri Arabidze defeated Divya ...
Nihal was a part of the Indian Chess Team that won the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020. [47] After the Online Chess Olympiad 2020, Nihal's run of wins continued with him winning the Junior Speed Chess Championship conducted by Chess.com. [48] A few weeks later he went to win