India has produced a remarkable number of chess Grandmasters, with 67 in total Viswanathan Anand (1987)

  1. Dibyendu Barua (1991)
  2. Pravin Thipsay (1997)
  3. Abhijit Kunter (2000)
  4. K. Sasikiran (2000)
  5. P. Harikrishna (2001)
  6. K. Humpy (2001)
  7. Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2002)
  8. Sandipan Chanda (2003)
  9. R.B. Ramesh (2004)
  10. Tejas Bakre (2004)
  11. P. Magesh Chandran (2006)
  12. Neelotpal Das (2006)
  13. Deepan Chakkravarthy (2006)
  14. Parimarjan Negi (2006)
  15. G.N. Gopal (2007)
  16. Abhijeet Gupta (2008)
  17. S. Arun Prasad (2008)
  18. S. Kidambi (2009)
  19. R.R. Laxman (2009)
  20. Sriram Jha (2010)
  21. Deep Sengupta (2010)
  22. B. Adhiban (2010)
  23. S.P. Sethuraman (2011)
  24. D. Harika (2011)
  25. M.R. Lalith Babu (2012)
  26. Vaibhav Suri (2012)
  27. M.R. Venkatesh (2012)
  28. Sahaj Grover (2012)
  29. Vidit Gujrathi (2012)
  30. M. Shyam Sundar (2012)
  31. Akshayraj Kore (2013)
  32. Vishnu Prasanna (2013)
  33. Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (2013)
  34. Debashis Das (2013)
  35. Ankit Rajpara (2014)
  36. Aravindh Chithambaram (2015)
  37. Murali Karthikeyan (2015)
  38. Ashwin Jayaram (2015)
  39. Swapnil Dhopade (2015)
  40. S.L. Narayanan (2015)
  41. Shardul Gagare (2015)
  42. Diptayan Ghosh (2016)
  43. K. Priyadarshan (2016)
  44. Aryan Chopra (2016)
  45. N. Srinath (2017)
  46. Himanshu Sharma (2017)
  47. Anurag Mhamal (2017)
  48. Abhimanyu Puranik (2017)
  49. M.S. Thejkumar (2017)
  50. Saptarshi Roy (2018)
  51. R. Praggnanandhaa (2018)
  52. Nihal Sarin (2018)
  53. E. Arjun (2018)
  54. Karthik Venkatraman (2018)
  55. Harsha Bharathakoti (2018)
  56. P. Karthikeyan (2018)
  57. Stany G.A. (2018)
  58. Visakh N.R. (2019)
  59. D. Gukesh (2019)
  60. P. Iniyan (2019)
  61. Swayams Mishra (2019)
  62. Girish Koushik (2019)
  63. Prithu Gupta (2019)
  64. Raunak Sadhwani (2019)
  65. G. Akash (2020)
  66. 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.

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