Sagar Shah was born in Mumbai in 1990. A chartered accountant by training, he combined his professional studies with competitive chess, earning the International Master title in 2014 along with two grandmaster norms; his rating peaked at 2468.
In late 2015 he and his wife, Amruta Mokal, founded ChessBase India, which has become one of the leading chess media platforms in the world. As a journalist, commentator and YouTuber, Sagar has chronicled the rise of India's young stars and played a major part in the country's chess boom, including the popular 2020 streams with comedian Samay Raina that introduced chess to a huge new audience. He received the Shiv Chhatrapati Award in 2014.
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