We are proud to announce that India recently achieved the 50 grandmaster-mark! The golden milestone was achieved by GM Thejkumar M.S of Karnataka.
Please note decisions on titles applications approved by the Executive Board in Goynuk, Antalya, Turkey:
| GM | |
| Anurag, Mhamal | YES |
| Puranik, Abhimanyu | YES |
| Thejkumar, M. S. | YES |
| IM | |
| Chandra Prasad, Dhulipalla Bala | YES |
| Prince, Bajaj | YES |
| Raja, Harshit | YES |
| Rakesh, Kumar Jena | YES |
| WIM | |
| Vantika Agrawal | YES |
| IA | |
| Tapas Kumar, Mohanty | YES |
| Teli Rajendra | YES |
| Winston G. | YES |
| Madhav Viswanathan Baba | YES |
| FA | |
| Amit Kumar Biswas | YES |
| Anuj Singari | YES |
| Aranganatham C | YES |
| Bhabesh Mohanty | YES |
| Deepak Kumar Narendra | YES |
| Ganesh Chockalingam Pillai | YES |
| Hemprakash Barsagahe | YES |
| Mohapatra Santosh Kumar | YES |
| Prabhat Ranjan Kumar | YES |
| Rathi Pavan | YES |
| Sohani Vivek Suhas | YES |
| Vikas Sahu | YES |
| Karthik Shetty | YES |

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