Top chess players in India

The highest-rated active players from India on FIDE's October 2026 classical list.

#	Player	Rating	+/−	World	Born
1	GMPraggnanandhaa R IND	2763	+2	#7	2005
2	GMErigaisi Arjun IND	2746	−13	#12	2003
3	GMViswanathan Anand IND	2739	0	#14	1969
4	GMGukesh D IND	2710	+7	#29	2006
5	GMNihal Sarin IND	2709	−9	#30	2004
6	GMSantosh Gujrathi Vidit IND	2693	−4	#36	1994
7	GMChithambaram VR. Aravindh IND	2677	0	#42	1999
8	GMV Pranav IND	2677	0	#43	2006
9	GMPranesh M IND	2674	0	#44	2006
10	GMPentala Harikrishna IND	2648	0	#68	1986
11	GMMurali Karthikeyan IND	2647	0	#71	1999
12	GMAryan Chopra IND	2646	0	#73	2001
13	GMRaunak Sadhwani IND	2645	0	#74	2005
14	GMLeon Luke Mendonca IND	2629	−4	#93	2006
15	GMAbhimanyu Puranik IND	2622	−7	#104	2000
16	GMAditya Mittal IND	2621	+11	#108	2006
17	GMPranav Anand IND	2606	0	#142	2006
18	GMBharath Subramaniyam H IND	2603	−2	#147	2007
19	GMPa Iniyan IND	2581	−10	#195	2002
20	GMB. Adhiban IND	2574	0	#214	1992
21	GMSuri Vaibhav IND	2569	0	#231	1997
22	GMSurya Shekhar Ganguly IND	2562	0	#244	1983
23	GMNarayanan S L IND	2557	+2	#266	1998
24	GMS.P. Sethuraman IND	2556	+6	#273	1993
25	GMKarthik Venkataraman IND	2556	0	#276	1999
26	GMSamant Aditya S IND	2554	+9	#286	2006
27	GMDiptayan Ghosh IND	2551	0	#299	1998
28	GMAbhijeet Gupta IND	2549	+5	#308	1989
29	GMAronyak Ghosh IND	2546	0	#326	2003
30	IMS Aswath IND	2540	0	#350	2008
31	GMSankalp Gupta IND	2539	+4	#351	2003
32	GMGuha Mitrabha IND	2535	+7	#373	2001
33	GMGopal G.N. IND	2530	0	#396	1989
34	GMHarshavardhan G B IND	2529	+17	#408	2003
35	IMEthan Vaz IND	2525	0	#426	2011
36	GMIlamparthi A R IND	2523	−6	#434	2009
37	GMKrishnan Sasikiran IND	2520	0	#447	1981
38	GMVisakh N R IND	2520	0	#451	1999
39	GMRaja Rithvik R IND	2519	0	#454	2004
40	GMHumpy Koneru IND	2518	+9	#458	1987
41	GMVignesh N R IND	2513	+1	#489	1998
42	GMMayank Chakraborty IND	2511	+10	#501	2009
43	GMHarsha Bharathakoti IND	2510	0	#507	2000
44	GMHarikrishnan.A.Ra IND	2506	−17	#539	2001
45	GMRaja Harshit IND	2506	0	#540	2001
46	GMAarav Dengla IND	2506	0	#544	2009
47	GMAaryan Varshney IND	2502	−34	#575	2005
48	GMSundar M. Shyam IND	2498	0	#596	1992
49	IMAjay Santhosh Parvathareddy IND	2494	+17	#624	2010
50	GMSahaj Grover IND	2493	0	#632	1995
51	GMRohith Krishna S IND	2490	−24	#654	2005
52	GMLalit Babu M R IND	2489	0	#660	1993
53	IMV S Rathanvel IND	2489	−3	#662	2001
54	GMDivya Deshmukh IND	2488	−2	#671	2005
55	IMMuthaiah AL IND	2485	0	#691	1999
56	IMMd Imran IND	2485	−7	#696	2009
57	GMDeep Sengupta IND	2482	0	#716	1988
58	IMNeelash Saha IND	2478	+6	#755	2002
59	GMSrihari L R IND	2478	+14	#758	2005
60	CMVedant Rupeshbhai Varasada IND	2475	+11	#776	2010
61	GMPrraneeth Vuppala IND	2475	0	#778	2007
62	GMJayaram Ashwin IND	2472	0	#802	1990
63	GMSandipan Chanda IND	2470	0	#821	1983
64	IMSathvik Adiga IND	2470	+8	#827	2011
65	GMKoustav Chatterjee IND	2469	−12	#836	2003
66	GMRahul Srivatshav P IND	2466	0	#859	2002
67	GMMhamal Anurag IND	2464	0	#875	1995
68	IMShahil Dey IND	2460	+10	#915	2007
69	IMHarsh Suresh IND	2459	0	#925	2007
70	IMNitish Belurkar IND	2457	−3	#938	2001
71	IMGoutham Krishna H IND	2457	0	#944	2010
72	IMApoorv Kamble IND	2454	+19	#971	2009
73	GMHarika Dronavalli IND	2453	0	#976	1991
74	GMRameshbabu Vaishali IND	2452	−17	#987	2001
75	IMSiva Mahadevan IND	2451	0	#1004	2001
76	IMAnuj Shrivatri IND	2450	−6	#1020	2004
77	GMMishra Swayams IND	2446	0	#1071	1992
78	IMSriram Adarsh Uppala IND	2446	0	#1073	2010
79	GMMagesh Chandran Panchanathan IND	2444	0	#1086	1983
80	IMAyush Sharma IND	2440	+14	#1133	2005
81	CMVyom Malhotra IND	2438	0	#1155	2014
82	WCMModipalli Deekshitha IND	2436	−18	#1180	2012
83	IMKushagra Mohan IND	2433	−8	#1206	2004
84	GMShyaam Nikhil P IND	2432	0	#1212	1992
85	IMJain Kashish Manoj IND	2431	0	#1235	2005
86	IMGarg Aradhya IND	2430	0	#1245	2000
87	GMG.A. Stany IND	2429	0	#1251	1993
88	IMDeboushnik De IND	2429	0	#1255	2007
89	IMMohamed Anees M IND	2426	0	#1292	2003
90	FMJval Saurin Patel IND	2421	0	#1353	2011
91	IMTeja S. Ravi IND	2420	−8	#1358	1993
92	IMShete Sammed Jaykumar IND	2420	0	#1359	1999
93	Nirvan Bhamidi IND	2420	+36	#1364	2009
94	Shaurya Chaudhary IND	2419	+189	#1387	2012
95	Nithin Babu IND	2418	0	#1409	2000
96	IMSoham Kamotra IND	2417	0	#1424	2004
97	IMAudi Ameya IND	2416	−1	#1442	1999
98	GMSayantan Das IND	2414	0	#1459	1997
99	Bhoir Paras Dilip IND	2414	0	#1461	2009
100	IMKrishna C R G IND	2413	+18	#1471	1991

Ratings from FIDE's official October 2026 list. The +/− column is the change from the previous month. Inactive players are not ranked.