List of Indian chess players
The list of Indian chess players includes historical master players as well as master players who were once Indian masters, who have an IM or GM title (of both sexes), who have achieved an Elo rating of over 2400, or who are or were outstanding correspondence chess players.
A.
- Hagawane Aakanksha (* 2000), International Master of Women
- Manuel Aaron (* 1935), international master, national master
- Kelkar Abishek (* 1992), international master
- B. Adhiban (* 1992), Grand Master
- Akash G (* 1996), grandmaster
- Kamparia Akshat (* 1989), international master
- Viswanathan Anand (* 1969), Grand Master
- R. Ankit (* 1994), Grand Master
- NR Anil Kumar (* 1957), honored international correspondence chess master
- Mhamal Anurag (* 1995), grandmaster
- Upadhyaya Anwesh (* 1992), International Master
- C. Aravindh (* 1999), Grand Master
- Jayaram Ashwin (* 1990), Grand Master
B.
- Tejas Bakre (* 1981), grandmaster
- Dibyendu Barua (* 1966), grandmaster
C.
- M. Chakravarthi Reddy (* 1996), International Master
- Hajra Chandreyee (* 1999), International Master of Women
- Sakshi Chitlange (* 2000), International Master of Women
- Aryan Chopra (* 2001), grandmaster
D.
- Arghyadip Das (* 1985), International Master
- Neelotpal Das (* 1982), Grand Master
- Sayantan Das (* 1997), International Master
- Dhyani Dave (* 1991), International Women's Champion
- Viani Antonio Dcunha (* 1995), international master
- Gautam De , national correspondence chess master
- Das Debashis (* 1993), grandmaster
- Chakkravarthy Deepan (* 1987), grandmaster
- PB Dhanish (* 1965), correspondence chess grandmaster
F.
- Ivana Maria Furtado (* 1999), International Women's Champion
G
- Shardul Gagare (* 1997), Grand Master
- Surya Shekhar Ganguly (* 1983), grandmaster, national champion
- Swati Ghate (* 1980), Grand Master of Women
- A. Koushik Girish (* 1997), International Master
- Ghulam Kassim (died 1844), historical master player
- Anupama Gokhale (* 1969), national champion
- Mary Ann Gomes (* 1989), Grand Master of Women
- Diptayan Ghosh (* 1998), grandmaster
- G. Gopal (* 1989), Grand Master
- Sahaj Grover (* 1995), grand master
- V. Gujrathi (* 1994), Grand Master
- Abhijeet Gupta (* 1989), grandmaster
- Himal Gusain (* 1993), international champion
H
- D. Harika (* 1991), Grand Master
- P. Harikrishna (* 1986), Grand Master
- Harsha Bharathakoti (* 2000), international master
- Sharma Himanshu (* 1983), Grand Master
- K. Humpy (* 1987), Grand Master
I.
- Darpan Inani (* 1994), national champion in blind chess
- P. Iniyan (* 2002), International Master
J
- Anto Jennitha (* 1987), International Women's Champion
- Sriram Jha (* 1976), Grand Master
K
- Kannappan Priyadharshan (* 1993), Grand Master
- Eesha Karavade (* 1987), Grand Master of Women, International Master
- Murali Karthikeyan (* 1999), grandmaster, national champion
- P. Karthikeyan (* 1990), International Master
- Jayshree Khadilkar (* 1962), International Master of Women, National Master
- Rohini Khadilkar (* 1963), International Master of Women, National Master
- Vasanti Khadilkar (* 1961), international master of women, national master
- Akshat Khamparia (* 1989), international master
- Manisha Kiran (* 1989), Grand Master of Women
- Ponnuswamy Konguvel (* 1973), international champion
- Akshayraj Kore (* 1988), grandmaster
- Pavan Kumar , national correspondence chess master
- N. Krishna Teja (* 1998), International Master
- Abhijit Kunte (* 1977), grandmaster
L.
- Sahiti Lakshmi (* 1993), Grand Master of Women
- Babu MR Lalith (* 1993), grand master
- R. Laxman (* 1983), Grand Master
- Kammang Lhouvum , national champion in correspondence chess
M.
- M. Mahalakshmi (* 1998), International Master of Women
- Kiran Mohanti (* 1989), Grand Master of Women
- Nisha Mohota (* 1980), Grand Master of Women, International Master
- Prathamesh Mokal (* 1983), international master
- GK Monnisha (* 1998), International Women's Champion
N
- Kruttika Nadig (* 1988), International Women's Champion
- AG Nagaradjane (*?), National champion in correspondence chess
- PV Nandhidhaa (* 1996) International Master of Women
- Srinath Narayanan (* 1994), Grand Master
- Parimarjan Negi (* 1993), grand master
- S. Nitin (* 1992), international master
- Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh (* 1998), international master
P
- Somak Palit (* 1986), international master
- M. Panchanathan (* 1983), Grand Master
- Dharia Parnali (* 1997), International Master of Women
- NKrithika Pon (* 1992), International Women's Champion
- R. Praggnanandhaa (* 2005), international master
- Om Prakash , national correspondence chess master
- S. Prasad (* 1988), Grand Master
- Bodda Pratyusha (* 1997), International Master of Women
- Rucha Pujari (* 1994), International Women's Champion
- Abhimanyu Puranik (* 2000), international master
R.
- KS Raghunandan (* 2001), international champion
- Ankit Rajpara (* 1994), Grand Master
- Aarthie Ramaswamy (* 1981), Grand Master of Women, National Champion
- R. Ramesh (* 1976), Grand Master
- T. Rathnakaran (* 1981), International Master
- Teja S. Ravi (* 1993), international master
- Siddarth Ravichandran (* 1987), international master
- Padmini Rout (* 1994), Grand Master of Women
- Prantik Roy (* 1995), international master
- Shankar Roy (1976–2012), International Master
S.
- Tania Sachdev (* 1986), international master
- Shah Sagar (* 1990), international master
- Chanda Sandipan (* 1983), Grand Master
- Matthew Santhosh (*?), International correspondence chess master
- Roy Saptarshi (* 1986), international master
- Ramchandra Sapre (1915–1999), national champion
- Vishal Sareen (* 1973), International Master
- Nihal Sarin (* 2004), International Master
- K. Sasikiran (* 1981), Grand Master, honored international correspondence chess master
- KVS Sastry , national correspondence chess master
- S. Satyapragyan (* 1982), International Master
- Deep Sengupta (* 1988), grandmaster
- SP Sethuraman (* 1993), Grand Master
- Kutwal Shashikant (* 1979), international master
- P. Shyaamnikhil (* 1992), International Master
- Sundar Shyam (* 1992), grandmaster
- Mohapatra Sidhant (* 1998), international master
- Mahadevan Siva (* 2001), international master
- Sunil Somani , national correspondence chess master
- Seshadri Srija (* 1997), International Master of Women
- Jha Sriram (* 1976), Grand Master
- GA Stany (* 1993), international master
- M Subbaraman (* 1981), Grand Master of Women
- Mir Sultan Khan (1905–1966), historical master player
- Kidambi Sundararajan (* 1982), Grand Master
- N. Sunilduth (* 1998), Grand Master
- Soumya Swaminathan (* 1989), Grand Master of Women
- SD Swapnil (* 1990), grandmaster
- Mishra Swayams (* 1992), International Master
T
- Sagar Tejaswini (* 2000), International Master of Women
- MS Thejkumar (* 1981), International Master
- Bhagyashree Thipsay (* 1961), International Master of Women, National Master
- Praveen Thipsay (* 1959), grandmaster
V
- Suri Vaibhav (* 1997), grandmaster
- R. Vaishali (* 2001), International Master of Women
- MR Venkatesh (* 1985), grandmaster
- NR Vignesh (* 1998), international champion
- S. Vijayalakshmi (* 1979), Grand Master of Women, National Champion
- NR Visakh (* 1999), international master
W.
- Khan Wazeer Ahmad (* 1947), international master
Web links
Commons : Indian Chess Players - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Indian Top 100 Men and Women (Elo List, Active and Inactive)
- Indian Top 100 Women (Elo List, Active And Inactive)
- Indian Top 100 Men (Elo List, Active And Inactive)
- India at the ICCF