by Glorious history in the making for Indian chess, starting from the legend Viswanathan Anand acquiring India’s first GM norm to become 5 times world chess champion… Young generation is not far behind in terms of FIDE Elo points. Bright future for Indian Chess.
Here is a list of Chess Grand Masters from India who achieved this feet in respective years.
| # | Name of the Player | State | Year of becoming Grand Master |
| 1 | Vishwanath Anand | Tamil Nadu | 1987 |
| 2 | Dibyendu Barua | West Bengal | 1991 |
| 3 | Pravin Thipsay | Maharashtra | 1997 |
| 4 | Abhijit Kunte | Maharashtra | 2000 |
| 5 | K Sasikiran | Tamil Nadu | 2000 |
| 6 | P Harikrishna | Andhra Pradesh | 2001 |
| 7 | K Humpy | Andhra Pradesh | 2002 |
| 8 | Surya Sekhar Ganguly | West Bengal | 2003 |
| 9 | Sandipan Chanda | West Bengal | 2003 |
| 10 | R B Ramesh | Tamil Nadu | 2004 |
| 11 | Tejas Bakre | Gujarat | 2004 |
| 12 | P Magesh Chandran | Tamil Nadu | 2006 |
| 13 | Deepan Chakravarthy | Tamil Nadu | 2006 |
| 14 | Neelotpal Das | West Bengal | 2006 |
| 15 | Parimarjan Negi | Delhi | 2006 |
| 16 | G N Gopal | Kerala | 2007 |
| 17 | Abhijeet Gupta | Rajasthan | 2008 |
| 18 | S Arun Prasad | Tamil Nadu | 2008 |
| 19 | S Kidambi | Tamil Nadu | 2009 |
| 20 | R R Laxman | Tamil Nadu | 2009 |
| 21 | Sriram Jha | Delhi | 2010 |
| 22 | Deep Sengupta | West Bengal | 2010 |
| 23 | B Adhiban | Tamil Nadu | 2010 |
| 24 | S P Sethuraman | Tamil Nadu | 2011 |
| 25 | Harika D | Andhra Pradesh | 2011 |
| 26 | Lalith Babu M R | Andhra Pradesh | 2012 |
| 27 | Vaibhav Suri | Delhi | 2012 |
| 28 | M R Venkatesh | Tamil Nadu | 2012 |
| 29 | Sahaj Grover | Delhi | 2012 |
| 30 | Vidit Gujrathi | Maharashtra | 2013 |
| 31 | Shyam Sundar M | Tamil Nadu | 2013 |
| 32 | Akhshayraj Kore | Maharashtra | 2013 |
| 33 | Vishnu Prasanna | Tamil Nadu | 2013 |
| 34 | Debashis Das | Odisha | 2013 |
| 35 | Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury | West Bengal | 2013 |
| 36 | Ankit Rajpara | Gujarat | 2014 |
| 37 | Aravindh Chithambaram | Tamil Nadu | 2015 |
| 38 | Karthikeyan Murali | Tamil Nadu | 2015 |
| 39 | Ashwin Jayaram | Tamil Nadu | 2015 |
| 40 | Swapnil S Dhopade | Maharashtra | 2015 |
| 41 | S L Narayanan | Kerala | 2015 |
| 42 | Shardul Gagare | Maharashtra | 2016 |
| 43 | Diptayan Ghosh | West Bengal | 2016 |
| 44 | Priyadarshan K | Tamil Nadu | 2016 |
| 45 | Aryan Chopra | Delhi | 2017 |
| 46 | Srinath Narayanan | Tamil Nadu | 2017 |
| 47 | Himanshu Sharma | Haryana | 2017 |
| 48 | Anurag Mhamal | Goa | 2017 |
| 49 | Abhimanyu Puranik | Maharashtra | 2017 |
| 50 | Thej Kumar M S | Karnataka | 2017 |
| 51 | Saptarshi Roy | West Bengal | 2018 |
| 52 | R Praggnanandhaa | Tamil Nadu | 2018 |
| 53 | Nihal Sarin | Kerala | 2018 |
| 54 | Erigaisi Arjun | Telangana | 2018 |
| 55 | Karthik Venkataraman | Telangana | 2018 |
| 56 | Harsha Bharathakoti | Telangana | 2018 |
| 57 | P Karthikeyan | Tamil Nadu | 2018 |
| 58 | Stany George Anthony | Karnataka | 2018 |
| 59 | Visakh N R | Tamil Nadu | 2019 |
| 60 | Dommaraju Gukesh | Tamil Nadu | 2019 |
| 61 | Panneerselvam Iniyan | Tamil Nadu | 2019 |
| 62 | Swayams Mishra | Odisha | 2019 |
| 63 | Girish Koushik | Karnataka | 2019 |
| 64 | Prithu Gupta | Delhi | 2019 |
| 65 | Raunak Sadhwani | Maharashtra | 2019 |
| 66 | Akash Ganesan | Tamil Nadu | 2020 |
| 67 | Leon Mendonca | Goa | 2020 |
| 68 | Arjun Kalyan | Tamil Nadu | 2021 |
| 69 | Harshit Raja | Maharashtra | 2021 |
| 70 | Raja Rithvik | Telangana | 2021 |
| 71 | Sankalp Gupta | Maharashtra | 2021 |
| 72 | Mitrabha Guha | West Bengal | 2021 |
| 73 | Bharath Subramaniyam | Tamil Nadu | 2022 |
| 74 | Rahul Srivatshav P | Telangana | 2022 |
| 75 | V Pranav | Tamil Nadu | 2022 |
| 76 | Pranav Anand | Karnatka | 2022 |
| 77 | Aditya Mittal | Maharashtra | 2022 |
| 78 | Koustav Chatterjee | West Bengal | 2023 |
| 79 | Pranesh M | Tamil Nadu | 2023 |
| 80 | Vignesh N R | Tamil Nadu | 2023 |
| 81 | Sayantan Das | West Bengal | 2023 |
| 82 | Vuppala Praneeth | Telangana | 2023 |
| 83 | Aditya Samant | Maharashtra | 2023 |
