Arjun Award Winners for "Chess"
 
Year Awardee
1961 Shri Manuel Aaron
1980-81 Km. Rohini Khadilkar
1983 Shri Dibyendu Barua
1984 Shri P. M. Thipsay
1985 Shri Vishwanathan Anand
1987 Shri D. V. Prasad
1987 Smt. Bhagyashree P. Thipsay
1990 Smt. Anupama Gokhale
2000 Ms. S. Vijayalakshmi
2002 Shri K. Sasikiran
2003 Kum. Konere Humpy
2005 Shri Surya Shekhar Ganguly
2006 Shri Pentala Harikrishna
2007 Ms. Harika Dronavalli
2009 Ms. Tania Sachdev