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Former world chess champion (FIDE 2002–2004), formerly youngest grandmaster (1997–1999), formerly highest-ranked Ukrainian player (2002–2005) 34 Hungary: Peter Leko: 2763 2005-04 1979 Formerly youngest grandmaster (1994–1997), formerly highest-ranked Hungarian player (1999–2021, 2022–2024) Soviet Union United States: Gata Kamsky: 2763
This is a list of films voted the best in national and international surveys of critics and the public. Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country. Voting systems differ, and some surveys suffer from biases such as self-selection or skewed demographics , while others may be susceptible to forms of ...
The following is a list of the Top 10 Films chosen annually by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, beginning in 1929. [1] [2] History.
The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess.The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing body, FIDE.Other than world champion, it is the highest title a chess player can attain and is awarded for life, although FIDE regulations allow for the revocation of titles for cheating or fraud.
Samuel Reshevsky playing chess with Douglas Fairbanks, as Charlie Chaplin watches them during filming of the American silent film The Three Musketeers, 1921. A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for the game of chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age.
The average Elo rating of top players has risen over time. For instance, the average of the top 10 active players rose from 2751 in July 2000 to 2794 in July 2014, a 43-point increase in 14 years. The average rating of the top 100 players, meanwhile, increased from 2644 to 2703, a 59-point increase. [ 3 ]
Judit, Zsuzsa, Zsófia and László Polgár, 1989. Polgár was born on 23 July 1976 in Budapest to a Jewish-Hungarian family. [14] Polgár and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father, László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a ...
He was mentioned in the chess movie Life of a King starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. Starting in the Fall of 2012, Ashley was a Director's Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and, between 2013 and 2015, Maurice was also a Fellow at Harvard University 's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in a joint fellowship at both Harvard's Berkman Center and the Media ...