Chess and India...

Hello World....!!

Proudly say You are Rated Player in India....!!
We have only 29689 among huge population and we are just behind France and Spain.!! India has 31 GMs, 77 IMs, and overall 222 titled players in the March 2013 rating list...!!

World champion Viswanathan Anand was the lone active player among the world’s elite in February as he added four Elo by winning the Baden-Baden Tournament in Germany to reach 2784.

The top 10 players from India have lost some rating and our average is now slipped to ninth in the world. Howeber, our women are ranked fifth in the world. Just to remind that our women finished fourth in the Istanbul Olympiad of 2012.

On the Asian front, we have caught up with China in the number of grandmasters at 31 apiece. We are way ahead on the titled players count with 222 vs 125 of China.

World Top 10:

Magnus Carlsen 2872
Vladimir Kramnik 2810
Levon Aronian 2809
Teimour Radjabov 2793
Sergey Karjakin 2786
Viswanathan Anand 2784
Veselin Topalov 2771
Hikaru Nakamura 2767
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2766
Alexander Grischuk 2764


Top 12 Indian Chess players:

V Anand 2784
P Harikrishna 2705
K Sasikiran 2677
P Negi 2639
S Chanda 2628
S S Ganguly 2623
Koneru Humpy 2597
A Gupta 2596
Magesh Chandran 2579
B Adhiban 2561
M.R. Lalith Babu 2559
Deep Sengupta 2549


Players from top five nations found in FIDE File in numbers as on March 1, 2013:

France 33857
Spain 30417
India 29689
Germany 25958
Russia 25351