India’s chess journey has been nothing short of extraordinary. From becoming the first Asian nation to produce a Grandmaster in 1988 to crossing the milestone of 97 Grandmasters, Indian chess has witnessed remarkable growth over the last four decades.
This page celebrates the men and women who achieved the prestigious Grandmaster title and contributed to India’s rise as a global chess powerhouse. The table below provides basic information about every Indian Grandmaster, including their FIDE ID, state, date of birth, and the year they earned the GM title.
As part of our “Greats of Indian Chess” series, Indian Chess Calendar will publish one in-depth article every Friday, highlighting the life, achievements, playing style, and legacy of these remarkable players. Article links will be added to this page as they are published.
| # | FIDE ID | Name | State | Birth | GM Year | Article |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5000017 | Viswanathan Anand | Tamil Nadu | 1969-12-11 | 1988 | Read |
| 2 | 5000025 | Dibyendu Barua | West Bengal | 1966-10-27 | 1991 | Read |
| 3 | 5000033 | Praveen Thipsay | Maharashtra | 1959-08-12 | 1997 | Read |
| 4 | 5002265 | Abhijit Kunte | Maharashtra | 1977-03-03 | 2000 | Read |
| 5 | 5004985 | Krishnan Sasikiran | Tamil Nadu | 1981-01-07 | 2000 | Read |
| 6 | 5007003 | Pentala Harikrishna | Andhra Pradesh | 1986-05-10 | 2001 | - |
| 7 | 5008123 | Koneru Humpy | Andhra Pradesh | 1987-03-31 | 2002 | - |
| 8 | 5002150 | Surya Shekhar Ganguly | West Bengal | 1983-02-24 | 2003 | - |
| 9 | 5004225 | Sandipan Chanda | West Bengal | 1983-08-13 | 2003 | - |
| 10 | 5002109 | Ramachandran Ramesh | Tamil Nadu | 1976-04-20 | 2003 | - |
| 11 | 5004195 | Tejas Bakre | Gujarat | 1981-05-12 | 2004 | - |
| 12 | 5007429 | Magesh Chandran Panchanathan | Tamil Nadu | 1983-08-10 | 2006 | - |
| 13 | 5011132 | J. Deepan Chakkravarthy | Tamil Nadu | 1987-06-03 | 2006 | - |
| 14 | 5003512 | Neelotpal Das | West Bengal | 1982-04-20 | 2006 | - |
| 15 | 5016690 | Parimarjan Negi | Delhi | 1993-02-09 | 2006 | - |
| 16 | 5015693 | Geetha Narayanan Gopal | Kerala | 1989-03-29 | 2007 | - |
| 17 | 5010608 | Abhijeet Gupta | Delhi | 1989-10-16 | 2008 | - |
| 18 | 5011167 | Subramanian Arun Prasad | Tamil Nadu | 1988-04-21 | 2008 | - |
| 19 | 5005370 | Sundararajan Kidambi | Tamil Nadu | 1989-12-29 | 2009 | - |
| 20 | 5005361 | R. R. Laxman | Tamil Nadu | 1983-02-05 | 2009 | - |
| 21 | 5001668 | Sriram Jha | Delhi | 1976-07-18 | 2010 | - |
| 22 | 5008352 | Deep Sengupta | West Bengal | 1988-06-30 | 2010 | - |
| 23 | 5018471 | Baskaran Adhiban | Tamil Nadu | 1992-08-15 | 2010 | - |
| 24 | 5021596 | S. P. Sethuraman | Tamil Nadu | 1993-02-25 | 2011 | - |
| 25 | 5015197 | Harika Dronavalli | Andhra Pradesh | 1991-01-12 | 2011 | - |
| 26 | 5024595 | M. R. Lalith Babu | Andhra Pradesh | 1993-01-05 | 2012 | - |
| 27 | 5045185 | Vaibhav Suri | Delhi | 1997-02-08 | 2012 | - |
| 28 | 5005779 | M. R. Venkatesh | Tamil Nadu | 1985-05-20 | 2012 | - |
| 29 | 5021103 | Sahaj Grover | Delhi | 1995-09-07 | 2012 | - |
| 30 | 5029465 | Vidit Gujrathi | Maharashtra | 1994-10-24 | 2013 | - |
| 31 | 5019141 | M. Shyam Sundar | Tamil Nadu | 1992-05-28 | 2013 | - |
| 32 | 5012414 | Akshayraj Kore | Maharashtra | 1988-09-01 | 2013 | - |
| 33 | 5030692 | V. Vishnu Prasanna | Tamil Nadu | 1989-08-12 | 2013 | - |
| 34 | 5024854 | Debashis Das | Odisha | 1993-06-27 | 2013 | - |
| 35 | 5008980 | Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury | West Bengal | 1982-02-13 | 2013 | - |
| 36 | 5023335 | Ankit Rajpara | Gujarat | 1994-08-27 | 2014 | - |
| 37 | 5072786 | Chithambaram Aravindh | Tamil Nadu | 1999-09-11 | 2015 | - |
| 38 | 5074452 | Karthikeyan Murali | Tamil Nadu | 1999-01-05 | 2015 | - |
| 39 | 5018137 | Ashwin Jayaram | Tamil Nadu | 1990-08-14 | 2015 | - |
| 40 | 5019184 | Swapnil Dhopade | Maharashtra | 1990-10-05 | 2016 | - |
| 41 | 5058422 | S. L. Narayanan | Kerala | 1998-01-10 | 2016 | - |
| 42 | 5037883 | Shardul Gagare | Maharashtra | 1997-09-02 | 2016 | - |
| 43 | 5045207 | Diptayan Ghosh | West Bengal | 1998-08-10 | 2016 | - |
| 44 | 5018293 | Priyadharshan Kannappan | Tamil Nadu | 1993-12-01 | 2016 | - |
| 45 | 5084423 | Aryan Chopra | Delhi | 2001-12-10 | 2017 | - |
| 46 | 5018420 | Srinath Narayanan | Tamil Nadu | 1994-02-14 | 2017 | - |
| 47 | 5007836 | Himanshu Sharma | Haryana | 1983-09-16 | 2017 | - |
| 48 | 5024366 | Anurag Mhamal | Goa | 1995-04-28 | 2017 | - |
| 49 | 5061245 | Abhimanyu Puranik | Maharashtra | 2000-02-11 | 2017 | - |
| 50 | 5009154 | M. S. Thejkumar | Karnataka | 1981-01-01 | 2017 | - |
| 51 | 5002974 | Saptarshi Roy | West Bengal | 1986-03-21 | 2018 | - |
| 52 | 25059530 | Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa | Tamil Nadu | 2005-08-10 | 2018 | - |
| 53 | 25092340 | Nihal Sarin | Kerala | 2004-07-13 | 2018 | - |
| 54 | 35009192 | Arjun Erigaisi | Telangana | 2003-09-03 | 2018 | - |
| 55 | 25006479 | Karthik Venkataraman | Andhra Pradesh | 1999-12-22 | 2018 | - |
| 56 | 5078776 | Harsha Bharathakoti | Andhra Pradesh | 2000-02-07 | 2019 | - |
| 57 | 5018226 | P. Karthikeyan | Tamil Nadu | 1990-06-14 | 2019 | - |
| 58 | 5029104 | Stany G.A. | Karnataka | 1993-01-22 | 2019 | - |
| 59 | 25012223 | N. R. Visakh | Tamil Nadu | 1999-04-24 | 2019 | - |
| 60 | 46616543 | Gukesh D | Tamil Nadu | 2006-05-29 | 2019 | - |
| 61 | 25002767 | P. Iniyan | Tamil Nadu | 2002-09-13 | 2019 | - |
| 62 | 5028183 | Swayams Mishra | Odisha | 1992-08-13 | 2019 | - |
| 63 | 5038448 | Girish A. Koushik | Karnataka | 1997-08-31 | 2019 | - |
| 64 | 46618546 | Prithu Gupta | Delhi | 2004-03-08 | 2019 | - |
| 65 | 35093487 | Raunak Sadhwani | Maharashtra | 2005-12-22 | 2019 | - |
| 66 | 5040299 | G. Akash | Tamil Nadu | 1996-10-01 | 2020 | - |
| 67 | 35028561 | Leon Luke Mendonca | Goa | 2006-03-13 | 2020 | - |
| 68 | 35018701 | Arjun Kalyan | Tamil Nadu | 2002-06-17 | 2021 | - |
| 69 | 5089000 | Harshit Raja | Maharashtra | 2001-04-03 | 2021 | - |
| 70 | 35007394 | Raja Rithvik R. | Telangana | 2004-05-04 | 2021 | - |
| 71 | 5057000 | Mitrabha Guha | West Bengal | 2001-09-15 | 2021 | - |
| 72 | 5097010 | Sankalp Gupta | Maharashtra | 2003-08-18 | 2021 | - |
| 73 | 46634827 | Bharath Subramaniyam | Tamil Nadu | 2007-10-17 | 2022 | - |
| 74 | 25059653 | Rahul Srivatshav | Andhra Pradesh | 2002-05-03 | 2022 | - |
| 75 | 25060783 | Pranav V | Karnataka | 2006-10-13 | 2022 | - |
| 76 | 46626786 | Pranav Anand | Karnataka | 2006-11-03 | 2022 | - |
| 77 | 35042025 | Aditya Mittal | Maharashtra | 2006-09-19 | 2022 | - |
| 78 | 25073060 | Koustav Chatterjee | West Bengal | 2003-07-21 | 2023 | - |
| 79 | 35028600 | Pranesh M | Tamil Nadu | 2006-08-26 | 2023 | - |
| 80 | 25012215 | Vignesh N. R. | Tamil Nadu | 1998-01-24 | 2023 | - |
| 81 | 5034426 | Sayantan Das | West Bengal | 1997-04-08 | 2023 | - |
| 82 | 46622373 | Prraneeth Vuppala | Telangana | 2007-01-02 | 2023 | - |
| 83 | 35080580 | Aditya Samant | Maharashtra | 2006-09-09 | 2023 | - |
| 84 | 5091756 | Rameshbabu Vaishali | Tamil Nadu | 2001-06-21 | 2023 | - |
| 85 | 5024218 | Shyaam Nikhil P. | Tamil Nadu | 1992-03-21 | 2024 | - |
| 86 | 46617116 | Srihari L. R. | Tamil Nadu | 2005-11-24 | 2025 | - |
| 87 | 5081483 | Harikrishnan A Ra | Tamil Nadu | 2001-09-22 | 2025 | - |
| 88 | 35006916 | Divya Deshmukh | Maharashtra | 2005-12-09 | 2025 | - |
| 89 | 46617051 | Rohith Krishna S | Tamil Nadu | 2005-12-26 | 2025 | - |
| 90 | 45015775 | Ilamparthi AR | Tamil Nadu | 2009-03-28 | 2025 | - |
| 91 | 25035525 | V. S. Raahul | Tamil Nadu | 2003-02-09 | 2025 | - |
| 92 | 45048975 | Aaryan Varshney | Delhi | 2005-04-07 | 2026 | - |
| 93 | 45059756 | Aarav Dengla | Maharashtra | 2009-07-25 | 2026 | - |
| 94 | 25658766 | Mayank Chakraborty | Assam | 2009-07-28 | 2026 | - |
| 95 | 25072846 | Aronyak Ghosh | West Bengal | 2003-12-06 | 2026 | - |
| 96 | 25940783 | Ethan Vaz | Goa | 2011-09-03 | 2026 | - |
| 97 | 25059009 | Harshavardhan G. B. | Tamil Nadu | 2003-11-15 | 2026 | - |
| 98 | 46694619 | Aswath S. | Tamil Nadu | 2008-01-01 | 2026 | - |
| 99 | 25002112 | Rathanvel V S | Tamil Nadu | 2001-04-01 | 2026 | - |
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