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Highest-ranked Chinese player (since 2015), former World Chess Champion (2023–2024) 13 Russia: Alexander Grischuk: 2810 2014-12 1983 14 Iran France: Alireza Firouzja: 2804 2021-12 2003 Highest-ranked Iranian-born player, formerly highest-ranked Iranian player (2019), youngest player to achieve 2800+ rating 15 India: Arjun Erigaisi: 2801 2024 ...
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.
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. The best-ever Elo ratings are tabulated below. As of September 2023, there are 133 chess players in history who broke 2700, and 15 of them exceeded 2800.
Irene is currently the No. 1 rated women's chess player and the 15th overall chess player in Iowa, according to the United States Chess Federation. She is the only woman to crack the top 100 in ...
Playing in the top group of the Corus chess tournament for the first time, Carlsen placed last with nine draws and four losses, scoring 4½/13. [62] In the Linares chess tournament, Carlsen played against top-rated players Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich, Levon Aronian, Peter Leko, and Vasyl Ivanchuk ...
Alireza Firouzja (Persian: علیرضا فیروزجا, pronounced [æliːɾeˈzɒː fiːɾuːzˈdʒɒː]; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian-French chess grandmaster.Firouzja is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2800, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months.
Judit Polgár, the highest-rated female player in history, was once the youngest grandmaster overall. There are 42 female chess players who hold the title of Grandmaster (GM), the highest title awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The Grandmaster title was formally established by FIDE in 1950.