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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 ...
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) 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 rating: 2406 (December 2024) ... In May 2011 Tsepotan launched the website 2700chess.com, which reports the live rating of ... the man who founded 2700chess.com ...
Also as a matter of taste, the breaks into sections of ratings by irregularly spaced groups (2825-2899, 2800-2824, etc.) is strange and just makes the table longer and harder to read. The ratings are easily picked out of the Peak Rating column so this clutter isn't helpful.
He pushed above 2600 in the FIDE rating list in May 2024 by winning the 7th Sharjah Masters despite being the 50th seed. He finished above much stronger players such as Arjun Erigaisi , Alexey Sarana and Yu Yangyi .
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.
As an example, for the Grandmaster (GM) title, a player must achieve three GM norms corresponding to performance ratings of at least 2600 against opponents with an average rating of 2380 and must also have reached a required peak live rating of 2500. These norms are calculated with the FIDE performance rating method. [4]