Q. Who was the first Indian chess player to get the Grandmaster norm?
Answer: Vishwanathan Anand
Notes: Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former World Chess Champion. Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1988. He held the FIDE World Chess Championship from 2000 to 2002, thus becoming the first Asian to do so.