Ramachandran Ramesh (born 20 April 1976), also known as R. B. Ramesh, is an Indian

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

grandmaster (GM) from

Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...

who won the 2002 British Championship and the 2007 Commonwealth Championship. He is married to WGM

Aarthie Ramaswamy Aarthie Ramaswamy (born 28 June 1981) is an Indian chess player. She was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 2003. In 1993, Ramaswamy won the India under-12 girls championship. In 1995, she won the under-14 and under-16 girls c ...

. They are India's first grandmaster couple. He founded Chess Gurukul, Chess Academy in Chennai to train young players in 2008. Since then, Chess Gurukul has produced many international chess champions from India, including

R Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, Praggnanandhaa placed second in the 2023 Chess World Cup, and is the only Indian to win the Tata Steel Chess Tournament after Viswanathan Anand. H ...

Bharath Subramaniyam Bharath Subramaniyam (born 17 October 2007) is an Indian chess grandmaster (GM). Chess career Bharath learned chess at the age of five from his father, Harishankkar. Starting in 2014, he attended the Chess Gurukul school in Chennai, having GM ...

, who became an international master in 2019 at the age of 11 years and 8 months. Ramesh shot to fame with his commentary in the World Chess Championship Match 2013 Anand – Carlsen, where he was the official commentator along with GM

Susan Polgar Susan Polgar (born April 19, 1969, as Polgár Zsuzsanna and often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess grandmaster. Polgár was Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. On FIDE's Elo rating system list of July 1984, a ...

. He also won the

Dronacharya Award The Dronacharya Award, officially known as Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games, is sports coaching honour of the Republic of India. The award is named after Drona, often referred as "Dronacharya" or "Guru Drona", a cha ...

in 2023.

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* * 1976 births Living people Indian chess players Chess Grandmasters Tamil sportspeople Recipients of the Dronacharya Award Sportspeople from Chennai {{India-chess-bio-stub