Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi

Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi is an Indian Chess player. She has honoured the country by earning numerous accolades in several national as well as international chess events. She is the first Indian female player who earned the Master and Grandmaster FIDE titles. Vijayalakshmi has won more medals than any other Indian player in the Chess Olympiads. She was awarded by Arjuna Award in 2001.

Here are some of her career achievements:

• She secured second place at the 1995 Zone tournament, in Madras
• Commonwealth Women’s Championship, in 1996, held in Kolkata
• The Asian Zone tournament in 1997, held in Teheran
• The first place at the 1999 Asian Zone tournament, held in Mumbai
• Won the Indian Women’s Championship six times in 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, held in Madras, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Mumbai, New Delhi and Lakhnau, respectively
• Won a silver medal at the 34th Chess Olympiad of 2000, held in Istanbul
• Honoured with the Arjuna Award, in 2001
• Commonwealth Women’s Championship, in 2003, held in Mumbai
• Won Leonardo di Bona Memorial in 2007, held in Italy
• In 2016, at the 8th Chennai Open, she tied for 2^nd and 3^rd with Russian grandmaster Boris Grachev