Chess in India

Chess in India
Governing body	All India Chess Federation
International competitions
Olympiad x10 x7 x9 World Championship x6 x5 World Cup x2 x1 World Team Championship x0 x1 x1 Asian Games x2 x2 x2 Asian Team Championship x3 x11 x7

Chess has risen in popularity in India in the last few decades primarily due to the popularity and efforts of chess Grandmaster and former 5-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand.

It is believed that chess originated from chaturanga in ancient India. The All India Chess Federation is the formal governing body, and more generally the robust institutional chess "ecosystem" of the country has been deemed (by the BBC) as one of the best, if not the best, in the world.^[1]