Indian Chess Grandmasters

Context

Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization International Chess Federation (FIDE). Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain.

Chess in India is booming thanks to many factors. The main one being the presence of Vishy Anand, who is still actively playing chess and has motivated the entire nation by becoming the World Champion for a record five times. At the same time India has a strong national federation, work that is being done at the grassroot level and the chess in schools program that is slowly picking up pace. All of these factors have led to Indian chess going from one GM in 1987 (Vishy Anand) to 66 GMs as of July 2020.

Content

The dataset contains list of all the Indian Chess Grandmasters till July 2020. The data includes details of players like Year of becoming GM, Year of birth, Birth place along with their classical, rapid and blitz ratings.

Note: The rating is as published by FIDE in July 2020.

Acknowledgements

FIDE: https://www.fide.com/