نبذة عنا

Namaste from Amritsar, in northern India.

Some of my earliest memories are of a chessboard at home, playing with my parents and uncles. I was certain the grandmasters were the smartest people alive. I couldn't grasp how anyone held that whole beautiful game in their head.

I grew up in a family that had worked wood for four decades: the smell of it, the quiet concentration of hands that knew exactly what they were doing. After graduation I left it for investment banking, but the craft pulled me back, to my family and to what we'd spent a lifetime perfecting.

That is where Royal Chess Mall began: not a new venture, but the next chapter of something decades deep.

Every piece is carved by hand. Our master carver, Ramesh, has shaped his knights for over thirty years, honoured with a national handicrafts award. It's the one piece no machine can ever truly fake.

I've never believed great craftsmanship belongs only to certain countries. Ours comes from Amritsar, and it stands beside the finest in the world. Today our sets live in homes and collections across more than seventy countries.

- Sidharth Kapoor, Founder & Maker