Chess in India

Chess in India
Viswanathan Anand
Governing body	All India Chess Federation

Chess has risen in popularity in India in the last few decades primarily due to chess Grandmaster and former World Champion Viswanathan Anand.

As of August 2015, the FIDE World Rankings of the top Indian male and female chess players:

• Viswanathan Anand is the world No. 11, with a rating of 2776
• Harika Dronavalli is the female world No. 13, with a rating of 2579

It is believed that the game originated from India as a successor to Chaturanga or Shatranj. The All India Chess Federation is the governing body for chess in India.

Player statistics

As of November 2013

FIDE, the World Chess Federation, lists 32 active Indian grandmasters, 8 woman grandmasters, 58 international masters and 7 woman international masters.^[1]

Men

The Top 10 Indian grandmasters as of July 2014 are listed below.^[2]

See also: List of Indian chess players

Indian players in FIDE Top 100

Viswanathan Anand
Rank 2
48 years

P Harikrishna
Rank 20
32 years

Parimarjan Negi
Rank 78
25 years

Sasikiran Krishnan
Rank 85
37 years

#	Player	Birth year	GM Title	Rating	World rank[n 1]
1	Viswanathan Anand	1969	1988	2816	2
2	Pendyala Harikrishna	1986	2001	2740	20
3	Sasikiran Krishnan	1981	2000	2666	85
4	Parimarjan Negi	1993	2006	2645	127
5	Abhijeet Gupta	1989	2008	2634	151
6	Surya Shekhar Ganguly	1983	2003	2619	188
7	Koneru Humpy	1987	2002	2613	208
8	B. Adhiban	1992	2010	2610	212
9	Vidit Santosh Gujrati	1994	2013	2602	242
10	Chanda Sandipan	1983	2003	2597	256

Viswanathan Anand is currently No. 2 in the FIDE World Rankings and the former World Champion. Anand is considered a hero by many Indians. His rise in the world chess stage has inspired a whole generation of young Indians to take up the game of Chess.

Women

The Top 10 women Indian chess players are listed below as of November 2013.^[3]

Indian women players in FIDE Top 100

Koneru Humpy
Rank 3
31 years

Dronavalli Harika
Rank 26
27 years

Tania Sachdev
Rank 42
32 years

Mary Ann Gomes
Rank 61
29 years

Eesha Karavade
Rank 78
30 years

#	Player	Birth year	Title	Rating	World rank[n 2]
1	Humpy Koneru	1987	GM	2618	3
2	Dronavalli Harika	1991	GM	2484	26
3	Tania Sachdev	1986	WGM	2441	42
4	Mary Ann Gomes	1989	WGM	2414	61
5	Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi	1979	IM	2399	70
6	Eesha Karavade	1987	IM	2380	78

References

External links

• All India Chess Federation

Indian chess players – Wikipedia book

Notes