The reasons for chess boom in India

Over the last 3 decades Indian chess has been on the rise. To such an extent that from no GMs in 1987 we have reached 66 GMs in 2020. India has close to a 100,000 players registered with FIDE and so many youngsters are taking up the game seriously. What is the reason for this chess boom in the country?

IM Sagar Shah in this video explains 10 reasons in this video that has helped Indian chess to reach where it is today!

This video was first played at Judit Polgar's Global Chess Festival on 10th of October 2020.

Video: Sagar Shah

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[bhupeshgupta]

Vishy created more chess players, Samay created more audience. Simple logic, nothing to debate.

[emergency]

See I first used to Carry
Then I found Tanmay
Then I found Samay
Then I found Anish and Vidith
Then I found u Sagar, Botez and more
This is how I transitioned from PubG to Chess and I am glad I did it...🖤

[rahulsrinivas]

Anand inspired every Indian chess player to take up chess as a career. He is the biggest reason why we have so many GMs.

[kedarpai]

The grandmasters in India didn't increase due to Samay but due to Vishy. But the interest in new people for chess definitely increased due to Samay with the help of sagar teaching him

[harshithslh]

People who say chess boom happened bcoz of samay, are the ones got to know chess during this covid situation. But chess boom does not only imply to the number of audience but the playing strength of Indian chess i.e, the number of top players which happend only and only bcoz of Vishy Anand. And as far as samay is concerned he is the reason for the boom of audience and he is doing a great job.
Ps: Samay got liking for chess bcoz of agadmator

[netraparihar]

This video was so smooth and calm that it never felt like it was 22 mins That's Sagar sir's calmness for u❤️❤️

[ajaykulkarni]

I think; Sagar

Even your contribution is great; in terms of motivating the Chess enthusiasts, Providing high quality reference books on the Sport, Coaching videos..

Chess is a royal and unique sport ; which needs proper resources and Chessbase India is working systematically in arranging everything needed..!

[netraparihar]

1st reason should definitely be GM Viswanathan Aanand sir. He truly must have inspired a whole generation to take chess as a career. ❤️
Edit: And.. Yes he is ❤️❤️

[parvashah]

THE REASON FOR CHESSBOOM IS YOU SAGAR BHAI🤗😇❤❤

[Mathematica]

Vishwanathan Anand is the reason chess is present in India. He is the first grandmaster from India and also a five-time World Champion and also a super Grandmaster crossing an Elo rating of 2800. I have heard his name since my childhood. I'm 19 now. When I was in Jr. Kg. I used to read the GK book where I read his name for the first time. He is the reason for inspiring youth to pursue chess as a career. Today the no. Of GMs you can see in India is simply because of him. Samay created a chess boom in India as new people joined in and he was entertaining them. The main reason is that people think Chess is a boring game. But after watching their streams and Sagar Sir's analysis and commentary we get entertainment along with Chess. Grandmasters like Vidit, Adhiban, Srinath, Anish, Radjabov make it more fun for people to understand Chess. This Chess boom is good for India as many kids will start following chess at an early age, so India can produce more chess players in future.

[Banjara]

Gr8! This video will cover the chess expansion in India for over 30 years!!

[divyanshusinghyadav]

One of the Biggest contribution since years: sagar shah indeed

[LJlight]

Surprisingly this has brought tears to my eyes ...kudos to every chess player🔥
So happy chess is getting it's recognition again. ❤

[vaibhavsharma]

Waaoww....great insights... especially the history of inception of GMs in India and state-wise distribution charts....keep up the inspiring work Sagar Shah 👍✌️😇

[manavjaison]

To all of you guys saying it is only Samay :) -->

Umm no. It is not just Samay. I understand Samay introduced a lot of people to chess but there are many people who got inspired by legends like Vishy sir especially most of the IMs ane GMs, they all are inspired mostly by Vishy sir after he became a champion which gave them the motivation to take chess as a career. Vishy really is still such an inspiration for young aspiring players and saying that it is only Samay is umm kinda kiddish. So yeah, this video would be perfect for most of us I guess.

And the influence by both of them is so different too. While Samay introduced a new audience to this beautiful game of chess, Vishy sir mostly inspired all the titled players to take chess a career because of which we have soo many GMs in our nation. Both are so different that we just can't compare any of them.

Samay OP ❤
Vishy sir OP ❤

[muazzamshaikh]

16:54 tbh abhishek upmanyu and yuzi chahal were the most popular one with great fan following who came in the early days of stream to attract more and more people so we shouldn't forget their contribution also.

[aasthasharma]

i hope this chess boom led to create more GMs from other states also.❤️

I am from Himachal and here people have very little interest in Chess.🙂

[Banjara]

Chess in India should be divided into 2 eras, post ~ GM Vishy sir and the upcoming Chess that India will be seeing! ~ Post BM Samay Raina!

[Uttam_kr]

Anand sir was the reason why I started playing chess and Vidit bhaiya is reason why I started playing chess again .

[debapritaroy]

We can get another gm too, now it all depends on sagar shah if he wants to give us another GM. Anyways, full love and support to sagar sir😘😘❤️❤️