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If there is one person who has put India on the chess map of the world, it is Chennai’s very own Vishwanathan Anand. Indian chess grandmaster V Anand is the current World Chess Champion. He has been awarded India’s second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan and was the first recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India’s highest sporting honour.
Keeping Chennai’s chess profile high are four other international masters, RB Ramesh, P Konguvel, Lanka Ravi and V Saravanan. India’s second best chess player, Chennaiite, Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran defeated Commonwealth champion and former World championship finalist Nigel Short in the Corus International chess tournament in 2009.Chennai has the largest number of chess academies and is a very popular venue for major chess meets.
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