The National Individual Chess Championship is organized by the Nepal Chess Federation- NCF and National Sports Council- NSC, and was first held in 1979. A National Women's Individual Chess Championship has also been held since 2008. From the year of 2009 National Club Team Chess Championship has been started.
| Year | Place | Champion[1] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1979 | Kathmandu | Bikash Man Lama/Bijay Sharma | |
| 2 | 1980 | Bikash Man Lama/Bijay Sharma | ||
| 3 | 1981 | Hetauda | Laxmi Prasad Nakarmi | |
| 4 | 1982 | Jumla | Bikash Man Lama | |
| 5 | 1983 | Pokhara, Kaski | Gopal Prajapati | |
| 6 | 1984 | Gopal Prajapati | ||
| 7 | 1985 | Birganj, Parsa | Rabin Rajbhandari | |
| 8 | 1986 | Lalitpur | Badrilal Nepali | |
| 9 | 1988 | Kusma, Parbat | Naveen Tandukar | |
| 10 | 1992 | Kathmandu | Bilamlal Shrestha | |
| 11 | 1997 | Kathmandu | Punyaman Karmacharya | |
| 12 | 1999 | Badrilal Nepali | ||
| 13 | 2004 | Bhaktapur | Digesh Shankar Malla | |
| 14 | 2006 | Keshav Shrestha | ||
| 15 | 2008 | Lalitpur | Surbir Lama | |
| 16 | 2009 | Badrilal Nepali | ||
| 17 | 2012 | Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur | Manish Hamal | |
| 18 | 2014 | Banepa, Kavre | Keshav Shrestha | |
| 19 | 2016/05 | Ilam | Bhupendra Niraula | |
| 20 | 2016/12 | Dhankuta | Madan Krishna Kayastha | |
| 21 | 2019/04 | Purusottam Chaulagain | ||
| 22 | 2022/09 | Kshitiz Bhandari | ||
| 23 | 2023/04 | Rupesh Jaiswal |
| Year | Place | Champion | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2008 | Monalisha Khamboo | ||
| 2 | 2011 | Tara Ghale | ||
| 3 | 2014 | Banepa, Kavre | Bina Jaiswal[2] | |
| 4 | 2016/05 | Sindira Joshi[3] | ||
| 5 | 2016/12 | Monalisha Khamboo | ||
| 6 | 2019/04 | Sujana Lohani | ||
| 7 | 2022/09 | Sujana Lohani | ||
| 8 | 2023/04 | Sujana Lohani |