Chess in India

thumb|Chess set from Rajasthan, India Chaturanga (, , ) is an ancient Indian strategy board game. It is first known from India around the seventh century AD.

chess championship held in Chennai

chess tournament

1977 film by Satyajit Ray

knockout tournament that took place in New Delhi, India and Tehran, Iran

chess match between Anatoly Karpov and Gata Kamsky

chess tournament

thumb|alt=The direction of the chess pieces indicates to which player they belong.|Antique Indian Chaturanga Chess set arranged for four players as in Chaturaji.

The Chess World Cup 2025 was a 206-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Goa, India, from 31 October to 27 November 2025. It was the 11th edition of the Chess World Cup. Javokhir Sindarov won the tournament, becoming at age 19 the youngest World Cup winner to date. The winner, runner-up, and third-place finisher earned the right to play in the Candidates Tournament 2026.

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annual national chess championship of India

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Rudrata (, ) () was a Kashmiri poet and literary theorist, who wrote a work called the Kavyalankara in the first quarter of the ninth century. Very little is known about Rudrata. From Namisadhu's commentary on the verses 12-14 of the fifth chapter of the Kavyalankara, it is inferred that he was also known as Shatananda and his father's name was Bhamuka.

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Administratove body for chess in India