India has produced a remarkable number of chess Grandmasters, with 67 in total Viswanathan Anand (1987)
- Dibyendu Barua (1991)
- Pravin Thipsay (1997)
- Abhijit Kunter (2000)
- K. Sasikiran (2000)
- P. Harikrishna (2001)
- K. Humpy (2001)
- Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2002)
- Sandipan Chanda (2003)
- R.B. Ramesh (2004)
- Tejas Bakre (2004)
- P. Magesh Chandran (2006)
- Neelotpal Das (2006)
- Deepan Chakkravarthy (2006)
- Parimarjan Negi (2006)
- G.N. Gopal (2007)
- Abhijeet Gupta (2008)
- S. Arun Prasad (2008)
- S. Kidambi (2009)
- R.R. Laxman (2009)
- Sriram Jha (2010)
- Deep Sengupta (2010)
- B. Adhiban (2010)
- S.P. Sethuraman (2011)
- D. Harika (2011)
- M.R. Lalith Babu (2012)
- Vaibhav Suri (2012)
- M.R. Venkatesh (2012)
- Sahaj Grover (2012)
- Vidit Gujrathi (2012)
- M. Shyam Sundar (2012)
- Akshayraj Kore (2013)
- Vishnu Prasanna (2013)
- Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (2013)
- Debashis Das (2013)
- Ankit Rajpara (2014)
- Aravindh Chithambaram (2015)
- Murali Karthikeyan (2015)
- Ashwin Jayaram (2015)
- Swapnil Dhopade (2015)
- S.L. Narayanan (2015)
- Shardul Gagare (2015)
- Diptayan Ghosh (2016)
- K. Priyadarshan (2016)
- Aryan Chopra (2016)
- N. Srinath (2017)
- Himanshu Sharma (2017)
- Anurag Mhamal (2017)
- Abhimanyu Puranik (2017)
- M.S. Thejkumar (2017)
- Saptarshi Roy (2018)
- R. Praggnanandhaa (2018)
- Nihal Sarin (2018)
- E. Arjun (2018)
- Karthik Venkatraman (2018)
- Harsha Bharathakoti (2018)
- P. Karthikeyan (2018)
- Stany G.A. (2018)
- Visakh N.R. (2019)
- D. Gukesh (2019)
- P. Iniyan (2019)
- Swayams Mishra (2019)
- Girish Koushik (2019)
- Prithu Gupta (2019)
- Raunak Sadhwani (2019)
- G. Akash (2020)
- Leon Mendonca (2020)
These Grandmasters have greatly contributed to India’s growing reputation in the world of chess, with numerous young talents making significant strides in the international chess community.