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Twenty individuals have been awarded the Arjuna Award for exceptional performance in chess at the international level. Manuel Aaron was the first chess player to receive this award in its inception year of 1961. [12] Rohini Khadilkar was the second chess player and first female chess player to receive this award in 1980–81. In total, seven ...
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster currently ranked 14th in the world (7th in live ratings). His greatest career achievements so far are reaching the final of the Chess World Cup 2023 (which qualified him for the Candidates Tournament 2024 where he finished 5th/8) and winning the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025.
Youngest female grandmaster (since 2008), female world no. 1 (since 2015), highest-ranked Chinese female player (since 2008) 3 India: Koneru Humpy: 2623 2009-07 1987 Highest-ranked Indian female player (since 2001), formerly youngest female grandmaster (2002–2008) 4 Russia: Aleksandra Goryachkina: 2611 2021-08 1998
Parimarjan Negi (born 9 February 1993) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 20 days, which made him the second youngest grandmaster in history at the time. As of September 2023, he is the seventh youngest player to achieve this feat. Negi is an Indian and Asian champion.
He became only the second chess player from India to reach Elo rating of 2700. [5] In December 2008, he won City of Pamplona international chess tournament, a category 16 event with average Elo above 2640, by one-point margin with a rating performance of 2795. [6] In 2009, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Étienne Bacrot in Antwerp. [7]
Gukesh Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion.A chess prodigy, Gukesh is the youngest undisputed world champion, the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2750, doing so at the age of 17, and the third-youngest to have surpassed 2700 Elo at the age of 16.
Aryan Chopra (born 10 December 2001) is an Indian chess prodigy who became a grandmaster (GM) in 2016, at the age of 14 years, 9 months and 3 days. The title was officially awarded by FIDE in 2017. He became the second youngest Indian to become Grandmaster, after Parimarjan Negi .
Arjun Erigaisi (born 3 September 2003) [1] is an Indian chess grandmaster.A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 13 days.In September 2024 he became India's top rated player, and in December 2024 he achieved his peak rating of 2801 which makes him the fifteenth-highest rated player in history and second Indian ever to cross the 2800 threshold ...