India’s road to 100 Grandmasters: From Viswanathan Anand to Anuj Shrivatri
India had no Grandmaster at all until December 1987. The turn of the millennium brought the fourth. The 64th took another 19 years; the next 35 took just seven. The 98th arrived on July 9, 2026 — and the 100th on November 8.
Sixty-five years · one question
How many Grandmasters does India have? For the first twenty-six years of this story, the answer was none.
All one hundred · 1988 – 2026
Every one of them, in the order they arrived.
100
Set · 8 November 2026
Anuj Shrivatri, the hundredth.
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