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With Prithu Gupta winning the Grand Master title on the 18th of July 2019, Indian chess got its 64th GM. A very symbolic day as the chessboard is made up of 64 squares and we had one GrandMaster for each square on the chessboard.
India stands 5th in the World with the most number of GrandMasters
With Viswanathan/Vishy Anand becoming the only GM in 1988 and 31 years later Prithu Gupta from Delhi becoming the 64th GM, India has come to a lot far in the game of Chess, this also shows how the recent years have indeed seen a flurry of youngsters attaining their GM norms and joining a very elite club.
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005), A chess prodigy, he is the fourth-youngest person ever to achieve the title of GrandMaster (GM) in the world, behind Sergey Karjakin, Gukesh D and Javokhir Sindarov also hails from Chennai.
Till 1997, India had produced only three GrandMasters – Anand (1988), Dibyendu Barua (1991) and Praveen Thipsay (1997).
But starting with K Sasikiran and Abhijit Kunte at the turn of the millennium India has produced close to 50 GrandMasters.
In 1983, a 13-year-old Vishy Anand beat Aaron. It was a passing of the baton in more ways than one. The youngster now set his sights on bigger things and in 1988, when he became India’s first chess GM, "The Genius Kid" became the reason for the next big boost in Chennai. Every generation needs a hero. For Krishnan Sasikiran, Aarthie Ramaswamy and RB Ramesh, Anand was that hero.
Aarthie Ramaswamy became the world junior U-18 champ in 1999. 19-year-old Sasikiran became India’s fifth GM in 2000. In 2004, Ramesh became India’s 10th GM.
Here below is a list of all 64 GMs of India. (Source: ChessBase, Until 20th September 2019)
India stands 5th in the World with the most number of GrandMasters
With Viswanathan/Vishy Anand becoming the only GM in 1988 and 31 years later Prithu Gupta from Delhi becoming the 64th GM, India has come to a lot far in the game of Chess, this also shows how the recent years have indeed seen a flurry of youngsters attaining their GM norms and joining a very elite club.
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| Viswanathan Anand (First GM of India) |
Chennai's contribution to Indian Chess
The country’s first International Master, Manuel Aaron, first Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, the first female GrandMaster Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi, and the first International Arbiter Venkatachalam Kameswaran are all from Chennai.Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005), A chess prodigy, he is the fourth-youngest person ever to achieve the title of GrandMaster (GM) in the world, behind Sergey Karjakin, Gukesh D and Javokhir Sindarov also hails from Chennai.
Till 1997, India had produced only three GrandMasters – Anand (1988), Dibyendu Barua (1991) and Praveen Thipsay (1997).
But starting with K Sasikiran and Abhijit Kunte at the turn of the millennium India has produced close to 50 GrandMasters.
In 1983, a 13-year-old Vishy Anand beat Aaron. It was a passing of the baton in more ways than one. The youngster now set his sights on bigger things and in 1988, when he became India’s first chess GM, "The Genius Kid" became the reason for the next big boost in Chennai. Every generation needs a hero. For Krishnan Sasikiran, Aarthie Ramaswamy and RB Ramesh, Anand was that hero.
Aarthie Ramaswamy became the world junior U-18 champ in 1999. 19-year-old Sasikiran became India’s fifth GM in 2000. In 2004, Ramesh became India’s 10th GM.
Here below is a list of all 64 GMs of India. (Source: ChessBase, Until 20th September 2019)
Timeline of Chess in India
- 2021 - Indian-American prodigy Abhimanyu Mishra on June 30, 2021, became the youngest ever chess Grandmaster after he scored his third GM norm in Budapest, Hungary. The 12-year-old from New Jersey in the United States became a GM from International Master, having crossed the required 2500 Elo rating barrier.
- 2019, 8th November - Abhimanyu, born on 5th of February 2009, achieved his International Masters title at the age of 10 years, 9 months and 3 days. This is exactly 17 days earlier than Praggnanandhaa. Abhimanyu Mishra is now the youngest IM in the world.
- 2019, 13th October - 14-year-old R Pragganandhaa won the Gold medal in the under-18 open category in the World Youth Chess Championship
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| Abhimanyu Mishra - Youngest GM in the history of Chess |
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