India, March 17 -- India has been highflying in chess recently, and the icing on the cake was D Gukesh's World Championship victory in Singapore last year, where he defeated Ding Liren. Meanwhile, Koneru Humpy also became the Women's World Rapid Champion.

The current live chess rankings have three Indian GMs in the top-ten, with Gukesh in third position, behind Magnus Carlsen and second-placed Hikaru Nakamura. Meanwhile, Arjun Erigaisi is in fifth position and R Praggnanandhaa is eighth.

After his sensational Prague Masters campaign, Aravindh Chithambaram had a huge jump, climbing eight places higher to World No. 14. Meanwhile, India legend Viswanathan Anand has fallen to 15th.

Recently, Anand spoke to TV9 Telugu, where he was asked ab...