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Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 1980s Country Player Peak rating in 1980s Achieved 1 Garry Kasparov: 2775 1989-01 2 Anatoly Karpov: 2755 1989-07 3 Mikhail Tal: 2705 1980-01 4 Viktor Korchnoi: 2695 1980-01 5 Jan Timman: 2675 1988-01 6 Nigel Short: 2665 1988-07 7 Artur Yusupov: 2660 1986-07 Vasyl Ivanchuk: 2660 1989-07 9 Lajos ...
The following is a list of the players ranked number one on the FIDE rating system from the first official list in July 1971 to the present day, along with their ratings during the periods in question. A rating denoted with bold text followed by an asterisk (*) is a career high rating.
Though published in 1978, Elo's list did not include five-year averages for later players Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov. It did list January 1978 ratings of 2780 for Fischer and 2725 for Karpov. [2] In 1970, FIDE adopted Elo's system for rating current players, so one way to compare players of different eras is to compare their Elo ratings ...
Garry Kasparov was the world's highest-rated player on FIDE's rating list for a record 255 months, a number that is well ahead of all other world number ones since the inception of the list. [108] Before the list, Emanuel Lasker was the world's highest-rated player for 292 months between June 1890 and December 1926 according to Chessmetrics. [109]
Juan Borges Matos (born March 28, 1966) is a Cuban chess grandmaster. He became a grandmaster in 2004. He played in the 1995 Pan American Team Chess Championship for the Cuban team, which won first place. He achieved his highest rating of 2535 (ranked number 79) in July 1988. References
Batchuluun Tsegmed is the Mongolian peak -ranked chess grandmaster of all time, and his international ranking of 2571 is still the highest ranking in Mongolia. He is the only chess player from Mongolia who represented his country 7 times in the World Chess Olympiad and successfully participated the World Cup for the first time.
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Peter Heine Nielsen (born 24 May 1973) is a Danish chess trainer and player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994. He has won a record nine consecutive World Chess Championship titles as a coach, working with Viswanathan Anand in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012; then with Magnus Carlsen in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2021.