Sagar Shah | ||||||||||
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Born |
Mumbai, India | 28 January 1990|||||||||
Spouse |
Amruta Mokal (
m. 2014) | |||||||||
Country | India | |||||||||
Title | International Master (2014) | |||||||||
FIDE rating | 2407 (May 2024) | |||||||||
Peak rating | 2468 (September 2014) | |||||||||
YouTube information | ||||||||||
Channel | ||||||||||
Years active | 2012–present | |||||||||
Genre(s) | Chess, Streaming | |||||||||
Subscribers | 1,500,000+ [1] | |||||||||
Total views | 1,200,000,000+ [1] | |||||||||
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Website | https://www.chessbase.in |
Sagar Shah (born 28 January 1990) [2] is an Indian chess player, journalist, commentator, and YouTuber who holds the title of International Master (IM).
He co-founded ChessBase India in late 2015 with his wife Amruta Mokal. [3] Professionally a chartered accountant. Shah has a peak FIDE rating of 2468 with two Grandmaster (GM) norms. He was awarded the Shiv Chhatrapati Award in 2014. In 2020, Shah and comedian and chess streamer Samay Raina started streaming chess on YouTube.He started teaching chess to a group of comedians on stream. The duo have greatly contributed to the chess boom in India. [4] [5] [6] [2]