Full list of Indian Grandmasters: Monday evening has been a special one for Indian teenage chess prodigy Divya Deshmukh, who clinched the FIDE Women’s World Cup 2025 title after brushing aside compatriot Koneru Humpy in tiebreaks of the title-clash in Batumi. The 19-year-old thus qualified for the 2026 Candidates Tournament and became the 88th Grandmaster of India.
Her triumph also made her only the fourth Indian female GM after Humpy, Harika Dronavalli and R. Vaishali. She is also the 44th female to get a Grandmaster title.
Divya handed defeats to some of the biggest names in the chess fraternity for the biggest title of her career. The 2024 World Junior Champion beat the likes of Zhu Jiner, Harika, and former World Champion Tan Zhongyi to come through a very tough bracket before beating India No. 1 Humpy.
Divya didn’t have a single GM norm ahead of the World Cup, nor did she meet the required rating (a standard 2500) to be eligible for the coveted title but her World Cup win helped her circumvent all the usual FIDE requirements as she becomes the latest Grandmaster of India, and the 13th from Maharashtra.
The five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand is the first GM from India.
FULL LIST OF INDIAN GRANDMASTERS
| GM | Name | State |
| 1 | Viswanathan Anand | Tamil Nadu |
| 2 | Dibyendu 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 |
