What's The Status Of Chess In India?

Chess in India is developing at an incredible movement. We at present have 45 Grandmasters and around 80 International Masters. Passing by the number of players who are currently finishing their GM standards, my gauge is that we will have around 50 GM's before the finish of 2017. Consequently, it is nothing unexpected that the world chess looks at India as a power to deal with. As far as the interest of youthful understudies in the game is concerned, we have seen many students getting into chess and playing proficient FIDE competitions. We have players winning awards at discussions, as esteemed as world youth chess titles, Asian youth chess titles. India wins 12 awards at the Asian Youth Chess Championships - Times of India. 

Likewise, we have 3 Indian parts in FIDE's main 100 rundown and 2  in the best 20. What's more, we as a whole know our legend Vishwanathan has won the FIDE world title multiple times. Furthermore, as pointed by somebody beneath, India gloats about having the most youthful IM ever IM pragadannanda, a showcase of the degree of chess ability we have in our country. Likewise, the Indian group completed a spot in the Chess Olympiad a year ago, and that too without our top GM Vishy. 

As far as chess in India is concerned, we don't have a chess culture like nations:  Russia, the USA, and some other ground-breaking European chess nations. Yet, we are advancing towards that culture. We have chess bodies in different states that lead chess functions routinely. Vishy Anand and NIIT began a splendid activity called the NIIT mind champions institute. This not revenue driven association had set the goal of advancing chess in schools and creating youthful personalities. They have cultivated around 16000 chess clubs with near 1. 5 million individuals, which is an accomplishment in itself. 

To summarize, we ought to be optimistic about the development of chess in India as we make future Anand's, Kasparov's, and Carlsen's. We now have 55 GMs, exceptionally near what I had anticipated. Two critical things have happened to chess in India. India has directed its first super-competition as Tata Steel chess India at Kolkata that facilitated players like Anand, Nakamura, Aronian, Karjakin, Wesley, Hari Krishna, etc. 

Chess inclusion has improved hugely, credit to Chessbase India, which has begun covering significant chess functions in India and the world and has brought intriguing games to chess fans like me and numerous others. Thus, people have started to check out the game chess.

By-Alankrita

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