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Indian Chess legend Viswanathan Anand won the Nationals title for three consecutive times in 1986, 1987 and 1988. Karthik Venkataraman is the reigning Nationals Men Champion in 2024. The women's championship commenced in 1974. The first ten editions were dominated by the Khadilkar sisters Vasanti, Jayshree and Rohini. Rohini is the youngest and ...
Koneru Humpy (born 31 March 1987) is an Indian chess grandmaster.Humpy is a runner-up of the Women's World Chess Championship and the reigning two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion.
Tania Sachdev (born 20 August 1986) [2] is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a two-time Indian women's chess champion in 2006 and 2007, [3] [4] one-time Asian women's chess champion in 2007 [3] [5] and three-time Commonwealth Women's Chess Champion in 2016, [6] 2018, [7] and 2019. [8]
Amongst Indian chess players there are 85 Grandmasters (GM); 124 International Masters (IM); 23 Woman Grandmasters (WGM), including some who also hold the higher IM title; and 42 Woman International Masters (WIM) as of May 2023, according to FIDE, the International Chess Federation.
First Indian Asian Senior Chess Champion: Wazeer Ahmad Khan, 6th Asian Seniors at Lar in 2015; First Chess Olympiad hosted in India: 2022, 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai [4] Maximum number of Indian National Championship wins: 9 by Manuel Aaron; Maximum number of Indian National Championship (Women) wins: 6 by Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi
She won bronze medal in U-14 World Youth Chess Championship held at Halkidiki, Greece in 2010. [3] In October 2020, she was part of the Indian women chess team along with Vaishali Rameshbabu, Padmini Rout, Bhakti Kulkarni, Mary Ann Gomes which won the Asian Nations (Regions) Online Chess Championship 2020 organised by FIDE. The team won the ...
Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). She was part of the gold winning women's team at the 45th Chess Olympiad in 2024. [1]
Murali Reddy Saritha (born 10 June 1972) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (1990). She won the Indian Women's Chess Championship in 1987. Biography