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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.
United States: Fabiano Caruana: 2844 2014-10 1992 Highest-ranked American player (since 2015), formerly highest-ranked Italian player (2007–2015) 4 Armenia Germany United States: Levon Aronian: 2830 2014-03 1982 Formerly highest-ranked Armenian player (2005–2021) 5 Philippines United States: Wesley So: 2822 2017-02 1993
For most of the period April 2007 to November 2009, the top ranking was held by either Anand or Topalov. The seventh and current world number one is Magnus Carlsen, who first achieved this ranking in the January 2010 list, and has been world number one since July 2011 after having lost and reclaimed the position from Anand during 2010 and 2011.
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. Most of the systems are used to ...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) was established in 1924 as the governing body of competitive chess. At the time, the term "grandmaster" was already being informally used to describe the world's leading chess players since the players competing in the Championship section of the Ostend 1907 chess tournament were referred to as "grandmasters" in reference to them all having previously ...
Hans Moke Niemann (born June 20, 2003) is an American chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. [1] He first entered the top 100 junior players list on March 1, 2019, and became a FIDE grandmaster on January 22, 2021.
Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning four-time United States Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2844, Caruana is the third-highest-rated player in history .
In October 2022, Liang was invited to play in the US Chess Championship as a wild card, finishing 7.5/13 tied for 3rd place. [23] In March 2023, Awonder led his UChicago B team to their second consecutive US Amateur Team North Championship. [24] In April 2023, Liang reached the World Top 100 for the first time, with a FIDE rating of 2651.