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The first titled player of India was Manuel Aaron, when he became the first IM of India in 1961. Viswanathan Anand became India's first GM in 1988. [12] [26] The first Indian to obtain WIM title was Jayshree Khadilkar in 1979 and WGM title was Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi in 2001. [27]
Susan was the third female grandmaster, and the first to earn the title with a complete set of GM norms based on performance rating and satisfying the rating requirement. [27] Judit achieved her final GM norm as part of her victory in the open Hungarian Championship to become the fourth female grandmaster.
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. [1] She has won more medals than any other player for India in the Chess Olympiads. She has won almost all national age group ...
Chess player Vaishali Rameshbabu followed in the family tradition by becoming a grandmaster on Friday. Vaishali, 22, became only the third woman in India to earn the title, but she is not the ...
This list of female chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. It includes the preceding lists of Grandmasters and International Masters. FIDE title abbreviations: GM – grandmaster; IM – International Master; FM – FIDE Master; WGM – Woman Grandmaster
Chess player Vaishali Rameshbabu followed in the family tradition by becoming a grandmaster on Friday.
[1] [2] In 2002, she became the youngest woman ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster aged 15 years, 1 month, 27 days, a record only since surpassed by Hou Yifan. [3] Humpy is a gold medalist at the Olympiad, Asian Games, and Asian Championship. [4] She is also the first Indian female grandmaster. [5]
The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess.The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing body, FIDE.Other than world champion, it is the highest title a chess player can attain and is awarded for life, although FIDE regulations allow for the revocation of titles for cheating or fraud.