Arjun Erigaisi's Rise Signals a New Golden Era for Indian Chess

Cricket generally talks the most these days, but the biggest sports story for India right now is quite chess related. Arjun Erigaisi, the Indian Grandmaster has your name in the top 10 of the latest FIDE rankings as the lone Indian player is the World No 8. It's yet another milestone in Indian chess which has yielded some top-notch chess players in recent years.

Special about this story is the fact that it is an ‘Indian success’ in a sport where a few countries had the dominance. Today, a crop of new Indian players inspired by the likes of Viswanathan Anand is playing at the highest level regularly. The success of Erigaisi demonstrates that India is not only nurturing star players, it has gifted to the world a genuine player with genuine potential to compete for and claim the world's largest chess chess honors.

That all sports lovers have also something to see is that India's success is not confined to cricket. Be it the game of chess, the shot put or the badminton, Indian sportsmen today are making their mark on the world. Erigaisi's recent success is not only his, but also India's story of international sports.