India's athletes, on one page.

Divya Deshmukh

Divya Deshmukh (born 9 December 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. She has won two gold medals and one bronze medal at the Women's Chess Olympiad. Deshmukh won the Women's Chess World Cup 2025 and qualified for the Grandmaster title becoming the seventh woman to obtain the title as a teenager.

Eesha Karavade

Eesha Karavade (born 21 November 1987) is an Indian chess player from Pune. She holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She played for India in the Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014.

Ethan Vaz

Ethan Vaz (born 3 September 2011) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of International Master, and is a grandmaster-elect. A chess prodigy, he achieved the International Master title at the age of 12, becoming the youngest player in the world to hold the title at the time. In 2025, he won five medals at the Western Asia Youth Chess Championships.

G.A. Stany

Stany George Anthony (born 22 January 1993) is an Indian chess player and a chess grandmaster. In 2012, he became Karnataka's youngest international master at the time after completing his final norm in Rethymno International Open, Greece. In December 2018 he completed his final grand master norm in National Senior Chess Championship, Jammu and became India's fifty-eighth and Karnataka's second grandmaster.

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Geetha Narayanan Gopal

G.N. Gopal (born 29 March 1989) is an Indian chess grandmaster from Cochin, Kerala. Gopal became Kerala's first grandmaster in 2007 at 18 and India's sixteenth grandmaster.

Goutham Krishna H

Goutham Krishna H is an Indian chess player.

Harika Dronavalli

Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess grandmaster. She was part of the gold winning women's team at the 45th Chess Olympiad in 2024. She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017.

Harikrishnan A Ra

Harikrishnan Amirthavalli Rangarajan is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is coached by grandmaster Shyam Sundar M.

Harsha Bharathakoti

Harsha Bharathakoti is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Harshavardhan G. B.

Harshavardhan Gopalakrishnan B. is an Indian chess player, International Master (IM) and grandmaster-elect. He will become the 97th Grandmaster from India.

Himanshu Sharma

Himanshu Sharma is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati

Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati (3 September 2002 – 15 June 2021) was an Indian student who invented a six-player variant of chess at the age of 9 with assistance from his father. He earned a patent for his invention in 2012, making him the youngest patent-holder in India at that time. For his invention Bhati received the CavinKare Ability Special Recognition Award and the Sri Balaji Society's Child Innovator Award.

Ilamparthi A. R.

Ilamparthi Avalpoondurai Ravikumar is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Ivana Maria Furtado

Ivana Maria Furtado (born 16 March 1999) is a chess prodigy from Goa, India. She won the Under-8 World Youth Chess Championship twice in a row in 2006 and 2007, and won second place in the 2009 Under-10. Her FIDE Elo rating as of March 2019 is 2139, and she holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM).

Jayaram Ashwin

Ashwin Jayaram is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Jayshree Khadilkar

Jayshree Khadilkar Pande (born 25 April 1962) is an Indian chess player who was awarded the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1979. She was the first Indian woman to achieve this title. She is the first player from India to achieve this title and won the Indian women's championship four times.

K Priyanka

Priyanka K (born 2001) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master, which she earned in 2019.

K. Jennitha Anto

K. Jennitha Anto (born 10 April 1987) is an Indian chess Woman International Master from Tiruchchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. Having caught polio at the age three, she uses a wheelchair. She took to chess at the age of 9.

Kannappan Priyadharshan

Priyadharshan Kannappan (born 1 December 1993) is an Indian chess grandmaster, FIDE Trainer, author, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Chess Gaja Private Limited, a global online chess academy that trains hundreds of students across multiple countries. Known for his academic rigor, competitive accomplishments, and innovative contributions to online chess education, Kannappan has been a consistent force in the chess world both on and off the board.

Karthik Venkataraman

Karthik Venkataraman (born 22 December 1999), is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is a two-time Indian Chess Champion.

Karthikeyan Pandian

Karthikeyan Pandian (born 14 June 1990) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Khamparia Akshat

Akshat Khamparia (born 9 February 1989) is an Indian chess International Master. He is the first player from Central India to hold an 'International Master' Title. He has played more than 100 national championships and more than 40 international championships.

Kidambi Sundararajan

Sundararajan Kidambi is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Kiran Manisha Mohanty

Kiran Manisha Mohanty (born 9 April 1989) is an Indian chess player. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She was the Runners up in Asian Junior Girls Championship held at New Delhi in 2006.

Koneru Humpy

Koneru Humpy (born 31 March 1987) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Koneru is a runner-up of the Women's World Chess Championship and two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion. In 2002, she became the youngest female player—and the first Indian female player—to achieve the title of Grandmaster, aged 15 years, 1 month, 27 days, a record since surpassed only by Hou Yifan.

Koustav Chatterjee

Koustav Chatterjee is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Krishnan Sasikiran

Krishnan Sasikiran (born 7 January 1981) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He was one of Viswanathan Anand's seconds in the World Chess Championship 2013.

Laxman Rajaram

Laxman Rajaram R. (born 5 February 1983) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Leon Luke Mendonca

Leon Luke Mendonca (born 13 March 2006) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is the sixty-seventh Indian to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in January 2021.

M. R. Babu Lalith

Musunuri Rohit Lalit Babu (born 5 January 1993) is an Indian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2012. He is the 4th GrandMaster from Andhra Pradesh, part of the team that won India's first bronze medal in the 41st Chess Olympiad in 2014, Commonwealth gold medalist, Asian silver medalist, won the Indian Chess Championship in 2017, and Limca Book record holder.

Magesh Chandran Panchanathan

Magesh Chandran Panchanathan (born 10 August 1983) is an Indian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006.

Malika Handa

Malika Handa (born 20 March 1995) is a deaf Indian professional chess player and the first Indian woman to win a gold medal in the International Deaf Chess Championship. She has won two gold medals in the World Deaf Open Chess Championship and Asian Women Deaf Championship, as well as four silver medals in the World Deaf Blitz Chess Championship in 2018 and Asian Disabled Chess Championship in 2017. She has won the National Chess Championship of the Deaf eight times.

Manuel Aaron

Manuel Aaron (born 30 December 1935) is the first Indian chess master in the second half of the 20th century. He dominated chess in India in the 1960s to the 1980s, was the national champion of India nine times between 1959 and 1981. g.

Marani Rajendran Venkatesh

Venkatesh Marani Rajendran is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Mary Ann Gomes

Mary Ann Gomes (born 19 September 1989) is an Indian chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 2008. She won the women's edition of National Premier Chess Championship in 2011, 2012 and 2013 consecutively.

Mayank Chakraborty

Mayank Chakraborty (born 28 July 2009) is an Indian chess Grandmaster from Guwahati, Assam. In March 2026 he became the first chess grandmaster from Assam and the Northeast region of India, and the 94th grandmaster of India. He previously earned the title of International Master in 2023 and won several national youth championships during his rise in Indian chess.

Mir Sultan Khan

Sultan Khan (Punjabi and Urdu: میاں سلطان خان, 1903 – 25 April 1966; often erroneously given the honorific Mir Sultan Khan or Mir Malik Sultan Khan) was a chess player from British India, and later a citizen of Pakistan, who was the strongest Asian player of the early 1930s. The son of a Muslim landlord and preacher, Khan travelled with Colonel Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan (Sir Umar), to Britain, where he took the chess world by storm.

Mishra Swayams

Swayams Mishra is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Mitrabha Guha

Mitrabha Guha is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh

Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh (born 1 January 1998) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of International Master (IM) awarded by FIDE in 2016. He won the inaugural 1st SAARC Chess Championship (Open) in 2019, held in Bangladesh and successfully defended the title in 2023. In 2018, he received the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports State Award from the Government of Maharashtra, the highest state-level honor for sports personality in the state.

Moheschunder Bannerjee

Moheschunder Bannerjee or Mahesh Chandra Banerjee was a chess player from Bengal, many hundred of whose games survive through the writings of John Cochrane, who regularly played Bannerjee between 1848 and 1860, during Cochrane's tenure at the Calcutta bar. His first name is sometimes misspelled Mohishunder, though Mahescandra is a variant. Moheshchunder, also known as "the Brahmin", was a player from the mofussil or suburbs of Calcutta.

Mrunalini Kunte

Mrunalini Kunte (born 1973) is an Indian chess player and a Woman International Master. She is also a winner of the 1996 Indian Chess Championship.

Murali Karthikeyan

Karthikeyan Murali (born 5 January 1999) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2015. Karthikeyan is a two-time national champion.

Murali Reddy Saritha

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. She holds the distinction of winning National Premier Chess Championship, National Junior Girls Chess Championship (India) and Indian Youth Chess Championship (Sub Junior category) in 1987.

N R Anil Kumar

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 the International Master title from the International Correspondence Chess Federation.

Nadig Kruttika

Kruttika Nadig (born 17 February 1988) is an Indian chess player. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and won the Indian national women's championship in 2008. Nadig competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2010; she was knocked out in the first round by compatriot Harika Dronavalli.

Nagesh Guttula

Durga Nagesh Guttula (born 11 October 1981) is an Indian chess player with an International FIDE rating. He and his elder brother, Balaji Guttula, founded the South Mumbai Chess Academy, a renowned brand known as SMCA, in 1996, conceptualised by their father, Surya Chandra Rao Guttula. He was the administration head of the World Junior chess championship that concluded in Mumbai at Hotel Renaissance, Powai in October 2019.