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    Chess has a deep-rooted history in India, widely believed to have originated from the game of chaturanga during the Gupta Empire in circa 6th century...
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    India Chess Federation is the administrative body for the game of chess in India. Founded in 1951, the association is affiliated to the Asian Chess Federation...
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  • The Tata Steel Chess India Chess Tournament is a chess tournament held in Kolkata, India. It is held in the Rapid and Blitz formats. The venue for the...
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    Norway Chess 2025 was the 13th edition of the annual chess tournament held in Stavanger. It was held from 26 May to 6 June 2025. The field of six players...
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  • Major chess events in 2025 include the annual Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Norway Chess and Grand Chess Tour. Ju Wenjun defended her title against challenger...
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  • allows ranking of any column. Chess in India List of chess grandmasters List of female chess players "Chess Ranking India". FIDE. Archived from the original...
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  • The 44th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Chennai, India, from 28 July to...
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    Samay Raina (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
    Raina has been instrumental in popularising chess in India through his channel. Raina tries to make the game of chess more appealing to the masses through...
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    Gukesh Dommaraju (category Asian Games medalists in chess)
    Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, Gukesh is the youngest undisputed...
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    Champion. It was held from 7 to 25 November 2013 in Chennai, India, under the auspices of FIDE (the World Chess Federation). Carlsen won the match 6½–3½ after...
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    R Praggnanandhaa (category Asian Games medalists in chess)
    Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, Praggnanandhaa placed second in the 2023 Chess World Cup, and is the only Indian to win the Tata Steel Chess Tournament...
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    Indian chess is the name given to regional variations of chess played in India in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is distinct from chaturanga. There are...
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    World Blitz Chess Cup Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and he has the eighth-highest peak FIDE rating of all time. In 2022, he...
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    Vaishali Rameshbabu (category Asian Games medalists in chess)
    by ChessBase India - ChessBase India". www.chessbase.in. 18 September 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2022. "The Triumph of the twelve brave Olympians - ChessBase...
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  • National Premier Chess Championship is the annual national chess championship of India. It was established in 1955 by the Andhra State Chess Association as...
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    Koneru Humpy (category Asian Games medalists in chess)
    Indian chess grandmaster. Humpy is a runner-up of the Women's World Chess Championship and the reigning two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion. In 2002...
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    shogi—in seventh-century India. After its introduction in Persia, it spread to the Arab world and then to Europe. The modern rules of chess emerged in Europe...
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    Vidit Gujrathi (category Asian Games medalists in chess)
    1994) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Gujrathi attained the title of grandmaster in January 2013, becoming the 30th player from India to do so. He is the...
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    Nihal Sarin (category Chess Grandmasters)
    Nihal Sarin (born 13 July 2004) is an Indian chess grandmaster and chess prodigy. In 2018, he passed the Elo rating of 2600 at 14 years old, which at...
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    Arjun Erigaisi (category Asian Games medalists in chess)
    Rapid Chess Championship in London in June 2025. Sportstar Emerging Hero Award: 2023 TOISA Chess Player of the Year: 2021 Chess portal Chess in India List...
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    Chaturanga (category Chess in India)
    It is first known from India around the seventh century AD. While there is some uncertainty, the prevailing view among chess historians is that chaturanga...
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    The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...
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    The 45th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 to 23...
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  • Chess Super League is an online chess tournament organized by Samay Raina, ChessBase India, Nodwin Gaming. Players in the tournament, consist of some...
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    Sagar Shah (category Indian chess players)
    Indian chess player, journalist, commentator, and YouTuber who holds the title of International Master (IM). He co-founded ChessBase India in late 2015...
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    Divya Deshmukh (category Chess Woman Grandmasters)
    2nd ranked woman chess player in India. In 2023, in Almaty she won the Asian Women's Chess Championship. She then finished first in the women's rapid...
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    The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour is a series of Chess960 tournaments in 2025 organized by Freestyle Chess Operations. It will consist of five "Grand...
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  • wealthy men who are devoted to chess is presented against the background of scheming officials of the British East India Company, the history of its relations...
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    The Grand Chess Tour 2025 is a series of chess tournaments, which is the tenth edition of the Grand Chess Tour. It consists of six tournaments with a...
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    Pranav V (category Indian chess players)
    2023 - ChessBase India". www.chessbase.in. 8 October 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2024. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 38th European Chess Club...
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