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The list of top 10 active players as of December 2023. [1] [2] [failed verification] The top 100 players of the world include 9 Indian players, amongst them Viswananthan Anand at Rank 10. [3] The top 100 women players of the world include 10 Indian players, amongst them Koneru Humpy at Rank 3. [4]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Indian chess players. It includes Indian chess players that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Indian female chess players"
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
Tania Sachdev (born 20 August 1986) [2] is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a two-time Indian women's chess champion in 2006 and 2007, [3] [4] one-time Asian women's chess champion in 2007 [3] [5] and three-time Commonwealth Women's Chess Champion in 2016, [6] 2018, [7] and 2019. [8]
Next at the International GM Chess Tournament in Mumbai in December 2018, she earned her second woman Grandmaster norm. Varshini achieved her third and final norm in August 2019 at the Riga Technical University Open tournament at Riga, Latvia. She became the eighteenth chess player in India to become the woman grandmaster. [2]
Saritha Reddy won the Indian Women's Chess Championship in 1987 at the age of 15. [1] [2] Reddy played for India in the Women's Chess Olympiads: [3] In 1990, at first reserve board in the 29th Chess Olympiad (women) in Novi Sad (+4, =3, -4), In 1992, at second board in the 30th Chess Olympiad (women) in Manila (+3, =3, -5),
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) was established in 1924 as the governing body of competitive chess. At the time, the term "grandmaster" was already being informally used to describe the world's leading chess players since the players competing in the Championship section of the Ostend 1907 chess tournament were referred to as "grandmasters" in reference to them all having previously ...
Deshmukh became India's 21st woman chess Grandmaster in 2021. [4] She won the 2022 Women's Indian Chess Championship. [7] She also won an individual bronze medal at the 2022 Chess Olympiad. She was also part of the gold medal-winning FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 team. [8] [9] As of December 2024, she is the 2nd ranked woman chess player in ...