Sekhar Raja Ravi. Indian Masters Beat GM. Vol. 1

Chess Windows, 1995. — 154 p.Starting from Mir Sultan Khan a number of Indian masters have been on top of the Indian scene over the years during their respective heydays, making their impact even in the international arena with creditable victories over Russian and European Grand­masters. All heroes have their followers, admirers, well wishers and benefactors but public loyalty can be everlasting, periodic or even capriciously momentary! There are a few who will aver that Bjorn Borg, Sunil Gavaskar, Amitabh Bachchan, K.L. Saigal or Manuel Aaron was the best and others who would quite simply with their
attention from time to time to the currently successful people as the years went by. [The first cut is the deepest and the scribe of this piece must confess to a lingering partiality for Mohd. Rafi and Asha Bhonsle! ] During 1930 to 1995 Indian masters have scored around 150 victories over Grandmasters of which the first 52 have been covered in this book.