Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand believes India's chess scene has grown tremendously in the last three decades and the upcoming Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia (September 23 to October 6) will bear testament to this.

"I am proud to have convinced a lot of people to try chess. I was the first Grandmaster in 1987 and today, we have 52. So, that's quite a growth," Anand said on the sidelines of an event to launch Fincare Small Finance Bank's entry in to Mumbai.