The Most Famous
Chess Players from India
This page contains a list of the greatest Indians Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 21 of which were born in India. This makes India the birth place of the 6th most number of Chess Players behind Hungary and China.
Top 10 Indian Chess Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Indians Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Indians Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Indians Chess Players.
- #1
Viswanathan Anand
b. 1969
HPI 59.9091 langsIndian chess grandmaster and world chess champion
- #2
Humpy Koneru
b. 1987
HPI 56.7747 langsIndian chess grandmaster
- #3
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
b. 2005
HPI 52.1844 langsIndian chess grandmaster
- #4
Pentala Harikrishna
b. 1986
HPI 51.6032 langsIndian chess grandmaster
- #5
Harika Dronavalli
b. 1991
HPI 50.1335 langsIndian chess grandmaster
- #6
Vidit Gujrathi
b. 1994
HPI 46.0925 langsIndian chess player
- #7
R Vaishali
b. 2001
HPI 45.5628 langsIndian chess player
- #8
Gukesh D
b. 2006
HPI 43.5064 langsIndian chess grandmaster
- #9
Tania Sachdev
b. 1986
HPI 37.2734 langsIndian chess woman grandmaster
- #10
Krishnan Sasikiran
b. 1981
HPI 33.9319 langsIndian chess grandmaster
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Indians Chess Players grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
