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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.
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]
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
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.
Prithu Gupta is an Indian chess grandmaster from Gurgaon, Haryana.He reached this milestone in July 2019, at the age of 15 years and 4 months, 31 years after Viswanathan Anand became India's first GM.
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.
In November 2021, he became India's 71st Grandmaster after finishing second in the GM Ask 3 round-robin event in Arandjelovac, Serbia. [2] He managed to earn all three GM norms and surpass the 2500 rating mark in three consecutive tournaments within 24 days, being the fastest Indian player to do so.