India's athletes, on one page.
Olympic medallists, world champions and rising stars — Indian athletes by default, with international profiles a filter away.
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Shardul Annasaheb Gagare
Shardul Gagare (born 2 September 1997 in Sangamner) is an Indian chess player. He received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2016 and became the 42nd Grandmaster from India. Shardul is brother to Indian WIM Shalmali Gagare.
Sharma Isha
Isha Sharma is an Indian chess player from Belthangady, Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and is the first woman from Karnataka.
Shrinjan Rajkumar Gohain
Shrinjan Rajkumar Gohain (Rajkumar Shrinjan Singha; born 18 August 1990) is an Indian chess player. He is the former Indian chess champion and a Arena Grandmaster who has represented his state, Assam, and India in numerous tournaments.
Shubhi Gupta
Shubhi Gupta (born 2010) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM). She is a two time National Junior Girls Chess Championship (India) winner.
Shyaam Nikhil P
Shyaam Nikhil Ponnusamy (Tamil: ஷ்யாம் நிகில் பொன்னுசாமி) is an Indian chess grandmaster.
Shyam Sundar
Shyam Sundar Mohanraj is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is a national coach for India, and many of his students have become grandmasters, such as Pranav V, Srihari L. , and Harikrishnan A Ra.
Siddharth Jagadeesh
Siddharth Jagadeesh is a Singaporean chess grandmaster.
Soundarya Pradhan
Soundarya Kumar Pradhan (born 13 December 1999) is an Indian para chess player from Odisha. The visually challenged chess player was selected for the Indian team that took part in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Para Games. He won the Men's Team Rapid VI-B1 gold medal on 28 October 2023 along with Darpan Inani and Ashwin Makwana.
Srihari L. R.
Srihari L. Ravi is an Indian chess grandmaster.
Srinath Narayanan
Srinath Narayanan (born 14 February 1994) is an Indian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in August 2017.
Sriram Jha
Sriram Jha (born 18 July 1976) is an Indian chess Grandmaster. 2 Chess Championship earlier in the same year. Sriram Jha played for the bronze medal-winning India's C team in the Asian Team Chess Championship in 2003.
Subbaraman Meenakshi
Subbaraman Meenakshi (born 24 October 1981) is an Indian chess player who received the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2004.
Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi
Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (born 25 March 1979) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM), the first female player in her country to achieve these titles. She has won more medals than any other player for India in the Chess Olympiads. She has won almost all national age group titles, including the senior title.
Subramanian Arun Prasad
Subramanian Arun Prasad (born 21 April 1988) is an Indian chess player. In 2008 he became India's 18th chess Grandmaster.
Suhaani Lohia
Suhaani Lohia (born 11 August 2009) is an Indian chess player with an International FIDE Rating. She is one of the youngest individuals to earn the Woman Candidate Master. (WCM) title in India.
Suri Vaibhav
Vaibhav Suri (born 8 February 1997) is an Indian chess grandmaster.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly
Surya Shekhar Ganguly (born 24 February 1983) is an Indian chess grandmaster. His peak ELO rating was 2676 (July 2016). Ganguly became an International Master at the age of 16 and a grandmaster at the age of 19.
Swaminathan Soumya
Soumya Swaminathan (born 1989) is a chess player holding the title of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) from India. She won the World Junior Girls' Championship 2009 held in Puerto Madryn, Argentina, edging out Deysi Cori and Betül Cemre Yıldız on tiebreak score. She won the National Junior Girls Chess Championship (India) thrice in 2005, 2006 and 2008.
Swati Ghate
Swati Ghate (Marathi: स्वाती घाटे; born 16 January 1980) is an Indian chess player and a Woman Grandmaster. She is also a winner of the 2006 Indian Chess Championship.
Syed Nasir Ali
Syed Nasir Ali (15 August 1936 – 29 May 2018) was an Indian chess player who won the Indian Chess Championship in 1967.
Tania Sachdev
Tania Sachdev (born 20 August 1986) 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, one-time Asian women's chess champion in 2007 and three-time Commonwealth Women's Chess Champion in 2016, 2018, and 2019. She is also a chess presenter and commentator.
Tarun Kanyamarala
Tarun Kanyamarala is an Irish chess player.
Tejas Bakre
Tejas Bakre (born 12 May 1981, Ahmadabad, India) is an Indian Chess Champion. He acquire Fide Master (FM) title in 1997 and International Master (IM) title in 1999. He was first GM of Gujarat, India.
Thejkumar M. S.
Thejkumar Mysore Shivarame is an Indian chess grandmaster.
Trisha Kanyamarala
Trisha Kanyamarala is a chess player of Indian origin. In January 2020, aged 14, she became Ireland’s first Woman International Master. In 2025 she became Ireland's first Woman Grandmaster after earning her third norm in London.
V Varshini
V. Varshini (born 28 August 1998), is an Indian female chess player. FIDE awarded her the title of woman grandmaster in September 2019.
Vaishali Rameshbabu
Vaishali Rameshbabu (born 21 June 2001) is an Indian chess grandmaster. She is a two-time champion of the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament, winning consecutively in 2023 and 2025. Having played in two editions of the Women's Candidates Tournament in 2024 and 2026, she won the latter tournament to earn the right to challenge Ju Wenjun for the title of Women's World Chess Champion.
Vantika Agrawal
Vantika Agrawal (born September 2002) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster and International Master. She is a three-time gold medalist at the Chess Olympiad including two gold medals at the 45th Chess Olympiad in 2024 at Budapest. She won a silver medal with the Indian Team at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games.
Vasanti Khadilkar
Vasanti Khadilkar Unni (Marathi: वासंती खाडिलकर उन्नी; born 1 April 1961) is an Indian chess player holding the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She won in 1974 the inaugural Indian Women's Championship. The three Khadilkar sisters, Jayshree, Vasanti, and Rohini, dominated the Indian women's chess championships, winning all the titles in its first decade.
Vedant Panesar
Vedant Panesar is an Indian chess player.
Vignesh N R
Vignesh Narayanan Rajeshwari is an Indian chess grandmaster.
Visakh N R
Visakh Narayanan Rajeshwari is an Indian chess grandmaster.
Vishal Sareen
Vishal Sareen (born in 1973) is an International Master of chess. He has coached several well-known Grand Masters and International Masters in chess in his two decades of coaching. He was awarded with the UT Dallas Trainer Award in chess and holds the FIDE Senior Trainer (FST) title.
Vishnu Prasanna Vasanthan
Vishnu Prasanna Vasanthan Perumal is an Indian chess grandmaster and coach.
Vruthi Jain
Vruthi Sanganlal Jain (born) 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.