India's athletes, on one page.

Neelotpal Das

Neelotpal Das (born 20 April 1982) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Nihal Sarin

Nihal Sarin (born 13 July 2004) is an Indian chess grandmaster and chess prodigy. In 2018, he passed the Elo rating of 2600 at 14 years old, which at the time made him the third youngest player in history to do so. As a junior player, Nihal was the World Under-10 champion in 2014 and placed 2nd in the 2015 World Under-12 championship.

Nisha Mohota

Nisha Mohota (born 13 October 1980 in Hinganghat) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is the first WGM from the State of West Bengal.

Nutakki Priyanka

Nutakki Priyanka (born 1 June 2002) is an Indian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2022.

P. V. Nandhidhaa

Pallathur Venkatachalam Nandhidhaa (Tamil: பள்ளத்தூர் வெங்கடாசலம் நந்திதா) (born 10 April 1996) is an Indian chess player from the state of Tamil Nadu, who holds the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and Woman International Master (WIM). She is the 17th Woman Grandmaster of India. Her peak FIDE ELO rating is 2380 and she is holding 9 International Master norms as of December 2025.

Pa Iniyan

Panneerselvam Iniyan (Tamil: பன்னீர்செல்வம் இனியன், born 13 September 2002) is an Indian chess professional player. He is India's 61st player to be awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE. He won the Indian Chess Championship in 2025.

Padmini Rout

Padmini Rout (born 5 January 1994) is an Indian chess player. She holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She has won the National Women's Premier Championship five times, consecutively from 2014 to 2017 and again in 2023, and was the Asian women's champion in 2018.

Pallavi G. Shah

Pallavi G. Shah (born 15 November 1979) is an Indian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1999.

Parimarjan Negi

Parimarjan Negi (born 9 February 1993) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 20 days, which made him the second youngest grandmaster in history at the time. As of June 2025, he is the ninth youngest player to achieve this feat.

Pendyala Harikrishna

Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He achieved a peak world ranking of 10 in November 2016, and a peak Elo rating of 2770 in December 2016. On 17 August 2001, he became the youngest Indian to attain the title of grandmaster, a record which was subsequently held by Koneru Humpy, Parimarjan Negi, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Gukesh Dommaraju in that order.

Pranav Anand

Pranav Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Pranav Venkatesh

Pranav Venkatesh (born 13 October 2006), nicknamed as Buddy Pranav, is an Indian chess grandmaster and the 2025 World Junior Chess Champion.

Pranesh M

Pranesh Munirethinam is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Prathamesh Mokal

Prathamesh Mokal (born 1 October 1983) is an Indian chess player. He is an International Master as well as FIDE Trainer, and won the Shiv Chhatrapati Award (2005). He is also a black belt (Sho Dan) in karate and koryū.

Praveen Thipsay

Pravin Mahadeo Thipsay (born 12 August 1959) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He is the first Indian to get a chess Grandmaster Norm and the first Indian to win the Commonwealth Chess Championship.

Prithu Gupta

Prithu Gupta is an Indian chess grandmaster from Gurgaon, Haryana. He reached this milestone in July 2019, at the age of 15 years and 4 months, 31 years after Viswanathan Anand became India's first GM. He began playing chess when he was nine years old, which is relatively late compared to most other grandmasters.

Prraneeth Vuppala

Prraneeth Vuppala (born 2 January 2007) is an Indian chess player.

Raahul V S

Raahul Vijayakumar Srinivasan is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Rahul Srivatshav Peddi

Rahul Srivatshav Peddi is an Indian grandmaster (GM) of chess, as recognized by FIDE. He was born on 29 December 2002, in Guntur. In 2018, he earned his international master (IM) title and went on to earn the grandmaster title in 2022, becoming India's 74th grandmaster of chess.

Raja Harshit

Harshit Raja (born 2001) is a chess grandmaster from Pune, India. He became India's 69th Grandmaster in 2021, at the age of 20.

Raja Ravisekhar

Raja Ravi Sekhar (born 17 September 1954) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of International Master (1981). He twice won the Indian Chess Championships (1976, 1980).

Raja Rithvik R

Raja Rithvik Rajavaram is an Indian chess grandmaster. He became a grandmaster at the age of 17.

Rakshitta Ravi

Rakshitta Ravi (born 24 April 2005) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

Ramachandran Ramesh

Ramachandran Ramesh (born 20 April 1976), also known as R. B. Ramesh, is an Indian chess grandmaster (GM) from Chennai who won the 2002 British Championship and the 2007 Commonwealth Championship.

Ramchandra Sapre

Ramchandra Bhargava Sapre (born 4 March 1915 – died 18 May 1999, in Mumbai) was an Indian chess player and first winner of the Indian Chess Championship.

Raunak Sadhwani

Raunak Sadhwani (born 22 December 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he became a grandmaster at the age of 13. He is the 10th youngest player in history and the 4th youngest Indian to be awarded the title as of December 2023.

Rishi Sardana

Rishi Sardana is an Indian-Australian chess player.

Rohini Khadilkar

Rohini Khadilkar (born 1 April 1963 in Mumbai) is a chess player holding the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She has won the Indian women's championship five times and the Asian women's championship twice. She was the first female chess player to compete in the Indian Chess Championship in 1976, and the first to receive the Arjuna Award in 1980.

Rohith Krishna S

Rohith Krishna S is an Indian chess player, who holds the title of grandmaster. He is pursuing an engineering degree from SSN College.

Rucha Pujari

S. Dhopade Swapnil

Swapnil Dhopade (born 5 October 1990) is an Indian chess grandmaster. In 2016, he became the first grandmaster from the Vidarbha region and the fifth from Maharashtra. 5/9 at the Isle of Man International Masters tournament.

S. L. Narayanan

Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan (born 10 January 1998) is an Indian chess player. He earned the title of Grandmaster in 2015 and is the 41st Grandmaster from India. As of January 2026, he is ranked No.

S.P. Sethuraman

Sethuraman Panayappan Sethuraman (born 25 February 1993 in Chennai) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Sagar Shah

Sagar Shah (born 28 January 1990) is an Indian chess player, journalist, commentator, and YouTuber who holds the title of International Master (IM). He co-founded ChessBase India in late 2015 with his wife Amruta Mokal, who he married 5 February 2014. Professionally a chartered accountant, Shah has a peak FIDE rating of 2468 with two Grandmaster (GM) norms.

Sahaj Grover

Sahaj Grover (born 7 September 1995) is a chess player from Delhi, India, who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in September 2012. He won the Under-10 World Youth Chess Championship in 2005 and came third in the Under-20 World Junior Chess Championship in 2011. In 2018, he moved to South Africa.

Sahithi Varshini M

Sahithi Varshini Moogi (born 27 April 2007) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of Fide Master (FM) 2023, Woman International Master (WIM) 2022, Woman FIDE Master (WFM) 2019, and Woman Candidate Master (WCM) 2017. Sahithi represented the Indian chess team in the 44th Chess Olympiad, 2022. Sahithi won the Magnus Chess Challenge best female player in 2022 and secured the second position in the best female category in the Biel Grandmasters tournament in Switzerland 2022.

Sahiti P. Lakshmi

Pinnamaneni Lakshmi Sahithi (born 1993 in Vijayawada, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India) is an Indian chess player.

Sai Krishna G V

Sai Krishna Gottipati V is an Indian-Canadian chess player.

Sankalp Gupta

Sankalp Gupta is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Sanskruti More

Sanskruti Vikas More (born 2006) is an Indian para chess player. She was part of the Indian team for the women's chess B1 category at the 2022 Asian Para Games at Hangzhou, China. She is a visually challenged chess player.

Saptarshi Roy

Saptarshi Roy (born 21 March 1986) is an Indian chess player, and India's 51st grandmaster.

Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury

Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Sarayu Velpula

Velpula Sarayu (born 3 April 2006) is an Indian chess player. She is a former National Under-13 Girls champion 2019, 38th National Junior Girls Chess Championship 2024 runner-up and National Under-17 Girls 2023 runner-up. She received the title of Woman International Master in 2025.

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha is an Indian chess prodigy who achieved a FIDE rating of 1572 at the age of three becoming the youngest player to earn an official FIDE rating.

Savitha Shri Baskar

Savitha Shri Baskar (born 25 January 2007) is an Indian chess player. She achieved the title of Woman Grandmaster in 2023. She achieved the title of International Master in 2025.

Sayantan Das

Sayantan Das (born 8 April 1997) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Seshadri Srija

Srija Seshadri (born 15 August 1997) is an Indian female chess player. FIDE awarded her the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in July 2019.

Shah Fenil

Fenil Shah (born 20 April 1995) is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE title of International Master (IM). He was the youngest rated chess player in 2002 and also the youngest chess player to represent Indian Team.