The game of chess is thought to have actually originated in India and has actually been played because the 6th century advertisement. India observed its initial chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand in 1988, complied with by several various other Indian chess players who made India proud.
According to FIDE (FIDE) till January 2021, India’s numerous chess gamers include 68 grandmasters, 124 international masters, 42 women international masters, 20 women masters, as well as concerning 33028 ranked gamers. Right here is a look at a few outstanding Indian chess gamers.
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Viswanathan Anand
Most people have actually heard that Viswanathan Anand is the best chess gamer in India. Viswanathan Anand is likewise known as Vis Anand and Tiger of Madras and also he is unquestionably on the top of the list. He has actually met the desire of every chess gamer.
He is the globe fast chess champion as well as the only Indian player to be placed fourth in the FIDE rating list, crossing 2800 points. Vishy has won the FIDE Globe Championship 5 times, in 200, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012. He was the first person to be granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 1991-92 as well as the initial sportsperson to get the Padma Vibhushan, India’s 2nd greatest private award.
Pentala Harikrishna
Pantala Harikrishna, from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, became India’s youngest Grandmaster after winning the Republic Championship in 2001. He holds several other chess triumphes such as the Globe Junior Championship in 2004 and the Eastern Individual Champion in 2011. harikrishna also represented India in the Chess Olympiad seven times between 2000 as well as 2012.
In 2016, Harikrishna reached 2763.3 on the Live Elo rating range, exceeding Vishwanathan Anand and ending up being the very first Indian player to surpass Anand in three years. He has a FIDE score of 276 and also got in the top 10 gamers worldwide in 2016. The present world score is 2719.
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
Born in Nashik, Maharashtra, Vidit Gujarati was the first Indian to win the U-14 Globe Young People Chess Championship in 2008, making the title of International Grandmaster.In 2009, Vidit won the Globe Young people Chess Championship.In 2011, he won his first in the U-20 classification at the Globe Youth Chess Championship G.M. norm.
In January 2013 Gujarati became a young 18 years of age Grandmaster. He won a bronze medal at the U-20 Globe Young People Chess Championship in Turkey. He is the fourth Indian chess player and his present world ranking is 2726.
Bhaskaran Adhiban
Birthed in Tamil Nadu, Bhaskaran Adhiban won the U-16 Oriental Champion in Tashkent in 2007. 2008 saw him win the U-16 World Youth Champion and also in 2009 he won the 47th National Chess Championship.
In 2010, he stood for India at the Asian Games, winning a bronze medal for his nation. Adhiban won the 33rd Reykjavik Open in Iceland in 2018, becoming the second Indian to win the title. His present world rating is 2671.
Krishnan Sasikiran
One more chess gamer from Tamil Nadu, Krishnan Sasikiran, found out to play chess from his father when he was 9 years old. He has won the Indian Chess Champion four times, in 1999, 2002, 2003 and also 2013. He also won the Eastern Junior Chess Champion kept in Vietnam in 1999.
Sasikiran won the Master title at the Commonwealth Champion in Sangli in 2000. He additionally won the Hastings Chess Tournament. On top of that, he won the gold medal in the 2006 Asian Games group event as well as aided the Indian group win the bronze medal in the 2014 Chess Olympiad. His present world rating is 2647.