Titled Chess Players - INDIA (July 2020)

FIDE Titles

The International Chess Federation (FIDE), awards several performance-based titles to chess players, up to and including the highly prized Grandmaster (GM) title. Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and norms (performance benchmarks in competitions including other titled players). Below is the list of major FIDE titles:

GM - Grandmaster
WGM - Woman Grandmaster
IM - International Master
WIM - Woman International Master
FM - FIDE Master
CM - FIDE Candidate Master
WFM - Woman FIDE Master
WCM - Woman FIDE Candidate Master

Chess in India

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 Titled (FIDE) Indian Chess Players (July 2020). The data includes details of players 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/
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