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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 ...
Dibyendu Barua (born 27 October 1966) is an Indian chess grandmaster.He is a three-time Indian Chess Champion.He was the second Indian chess player, after Viswanathan Anand, second Bengali after Niaz Murshed, and third South Asian after Niaz and Anand to achieve the title of chess grandmaster.
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
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 ...
In June 2018, he defeated Valeriy Neverov (who was rated 200 points higher) in an upset in the fifth round of the 11th Mumbai Mayor's International Chess Tournament. [2]In August 2021, he achieved his second GM norm after defeating Valentina Gunina at the Skalica Chess Festival and finishing in second place in the event.
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 ...
In August 2023, Visakh won the Leça Blitz Open 2023 ahead of his brother Vignesh and Harshit Raja after drawing the former and defeating the latter in tiebreaks. [2]In December 2023, Visakh won the 5th Roma Citta Aperta Masters section ahead of Krishna C. R. G. and Tigran Harutyunyan.
In March 2022, he was defeated in an upset by 14-year-old Shivika Rohilla in the Delhi International Grandmasters Chess tournament. [ 4 ] In August 2023, he won the Athens of the East Blitz Rating Open 2023 with a score of 9/10, finishing half a point ahead of second and third-place finishers Ram Aravind L N and Aakash G. [ 5 ]