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Highest-ranked Lithuanian female player (since 1999) 26 Ukraine United States: Anna Zatonskih: 2537 2011-05 1978 Highest-ranked American female player (since 2019) France: Marie Sebag: 2537 2013-03 1986 Highest-ranked French female player (since 2007) 28 Georgia: Bella Khotenashvili: 2531 2013-06 1988 29 Georgia: Nino Batsiashvili: 2528 2018-03 ...
A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by organizations such as FIDE , the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation , and the English Chess Federation .
BBC award-winning journalists, from their book Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (HarperCollins, 2004): Fischer, some will maintain, was the outstanding player in chess history, though there are powerful advocates too for Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, and Kasparov. Many chess players ...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) governs international chess competition. Each month, FIDE publishes the lists "Top 100 Players", "Top 100 Women", "Top 100 Juniors" and "Top 100 Girls" and rankings of countries according to the average rating of their top 10 players and top 10 female players in the classical time control.
FIDE publishes lists of highest-rated girl chess players; a "girl" is defined as being a player who is aged under 20 at the start of the year, and female. The following is a list of the players ranked number one girl in the FIDE rating system from January 2000 to the present day, along with their ratings during the periods in question.
His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, [2] achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. From 1984 until his retirement from regular competitive chess in 2005, Kasparov was ranked the world's #1 player for a record 255 months overall.
Cayman Islands Chess Federation [25] 0: 68 - Central African Republic: 4.3: Chess Federation of Central African Republic: 0: 100: Central African Chess Championship Chad: 4.3: Chad Chess Federation [26] 0: 17 - Chile: 2.5: Fed. Deportiva Nacional De Ajedrez: 6: 7,422: Chilean Chess Championship China: 3.5: Chinese Chess Association [27] 51: ...
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. [109] Before the list, Emanuel Lasker was the world's highest-rated player for 292 months between June 1890 and December 1926 according to Chessmetrics.