Full l of Indian Grandmasters after Aarav Dengla becomes 93rd GM of India; Check updated l
3 min readUpdated: Mar 1, 2026 12:00 AM Gone are the days when Viswanathan Anand was the only Indian with a Grandmaster title. Thirty-eight years after Anand became the first Indian Grandmaster, the l has now grown significantly, with the latest entrant being 17-year-old Aarav Dengla from Mumbai. The teenager became India’s 93rd GM after fulfilling the norms and rating criteria.
Dengla won his third and final GM norm and crossed the 2500 barrier winning the GM Mix Bijeljina and GM Norm Round Robin Tournament consecutively in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He won his first GM norm at the 1st International Grandmaster Tournament Bijeljina back in 2022, while his second GM norm came at Zupanja Celebrates Chess GM Norm Round Robin in Croatia in 2025.
He is also the third GM from Mumbai after Praveen Thipsay and Aditya Mittal. Dengla is the second Indian to attain the GM title in 2026, after Aaryan Varshney became the 92nd GM from the country in January.
India have four female Grandmasters in Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, R. Vaishali and Divya Deshmukh.
FULL L OF INDIAN GRANDMASTERS
GM
Name
State
1
Viswanathan Anand
Tamil Nadu
2
Diendu Barua
West Bengal
3
Praveen Thipsay
Maharashtra
4
Abhijit Kunte
Maharashtra
5
Krishnan Sasikiran
Tamil Nadu
6
Pentala Harikrishna
Andhra Pradesh
7
Koneru Humpy
Andhra Pradesh
8
Surya Shekhar Ganguly
West Bengal
9
Sandipan Chanda
West Bengal
10
Ramachandran Ramesh
Tamil Nadu
11
Tejas Bakre
Gujarat
12
Magesh Chandran Panchanathan
Tamil Nadu
13
J. Deepan Chakkravarthy
Tamil Nadu
14
Neelotpal Das
West Bengal
15
Parimarjan Negi
Delhi
16
Geetha Narayanan Gopal
Kerala
17
Abhijeet Gupta
Delhi
18
Subramanian Arun Prasad
Tamil Nadu
19
Sundararajan Kidambi
Tamil Nadu
20
R. R. Laxman
Tamil Nadu
21
Sriram Jha
Delhi
22
Deep Sengupta
West Bengal
23
Baskaran Adhiban
Tamil Nadu
24
S. P. Sethuraman
Tamil Nadu
25
Harika Dronavalli
Andhra Pradesh
26
M. R. Lalith Babu
Andhra Pradesh
27
Vaibhav Suri
Delhi
28
M. R. Venkatesh
Tamil Nadu
29
Sahaj Grover
Delhi
30
Vidit Gujrathi
Maharashtra
31
M. Shyam Sundar
Tamil Nadu
32
Akshayraj Kore
Maharashtra
33
V. Vishnu Prasanna
Tamil Nadu
34
Debashis Das
Odisha
35
Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury
West Bengal
36
Ankit Rajpara
Gujarat
37
Chithambaram Aravindh
Tamil Nadu
38
Karthikeyan Murali
Tamil Nadu
39
Ashwin Jayaram
Tamil Nadu
40
Swapnil Dhopade
Maharashtra
41
S. L. Narayanan
Kerala
42
Shardul Gagare
Maharashtra
43
Diptayan Ghosh
West Bengal
44
Priyadharshan Kannappan
Tamil Nadu
45
Aryan Chopra
Delhi
46
Srinath Narayanan
Tamil Nadu
47
Himanshu Sharma
Haryana
48
Anurag Mhamal
Goa
49
Abhimanyu Puranik
Maharashtra
50
M. S. Thejkumar
Karnataka
51
Saptarshi Roy
West Bengal
52
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
Tamil Nadu
53
Nihal Sarin
Kerala
54
Arjun Erigaisi
Telangana
55
Karthik Venkataraman
Andhra Pradesh
56
Harsha Bharathakoti
Andhra Pradesh
57
P. Karthikeyan
Tamil Nadu
58
Stany G.A.
Karnataka
59
N. R. Visakh
Tamil Nadu
60
Gukesh D
Tamil Nadu
61
P. Iniyan
Tamil Nadu
62
Swayams Mishra
Odisha
63
Girish A. Koushik
Karnataka
64
Prithu Gupta
Delhi
65
Raunak Sadhwani
Maharashtra
66
G. Akash
Tamil Nadu
67
Leon Luke Mendonca
Goa
68
Arjun Kalyan
Tamil Nadu
69
Harshit Raja
Maharashtra
70
Raja Rithvik R.
Telangana
71
Mitrabha Guha
West Bengal
72
Sankalp Gupta
Maharashtra
73
Bharath Subramaniyam
Tamil Nadu
74
Rahul Srivatshav
Andhra Pradesh
75
Pranav V
Karnataka
76
Pranav Anand
Karnataka
77
Aditya Mittal
Maharashtra
78
Koustav Chatterjee
West Bengal
79
Pranesh M
Tamil Nadu
80
Vignesh N. R.
Tamil Nadu
81
Sayantan Das
West Bengal
82
Prraneeth Vuppala
Telangana
83
Aditya Samant
Maharashtra
84
Rameshbabu Vaishali
Tamil Nadu
85
Shyaam Nikhil P.
Tamil Nadu
86
Srihari L R
Tamil Nadu
87
Harikrishnan A Ra
Tamil Nadu
88
Divya Deshmukh
Maharashtra
89
Rohith Krishna S
Tamil Nadu
90
Ilamparthi AR
Tamil Nadu
91
V. S. Raahul
Tamil Nadu
92
Aaryan Varshney
Delhi
93
Aarav Dengla
Maharashtra
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