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World ranking (January 2025) The winner of the 2024 FIDE Circuit [a] Fabiano Caruana: 32 2803 2 The top three finishers in the Chess World Cup 2025 [b] TBD TBD TBD The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 [c] TBD TBD The winner of the 2025 FIDE Circuit [d] TBD Highest rating averaged from August 2025 to January 2026 [e] TBD
Before chess programs achieved master strength, and then became better than the best humans, adjournment was commonly offered in tournaments. When an adjournment is made, the player whose move it is secretly writes their next move on their scoresheet but does not make the move on the chessboard. Both opponents' scoresheets are then placed in ...
Saavedra, a Spanish priest who lived in Glasgow at the time, was a weak amateur player; his sole claim to fame in the chess world is his discovery of this move. [citation needed] The modern form of the position was obtained by Emanuel Lasker (in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 1, 1902, p. 53) by moving the c7-pawn back to c6 and changing the ...
The Modern Defense (also known as the Robatsch Defence after Karl Robatsch) is a hypermodern chess opening in which Black allows White to occupy the center with pawns on d4 and e4, then proceeds to attack and undermine this "ideal" center without attempting to occupy it.
The most prominent example of such a preference for the Najdorf move order was seen in World Chess Championship 1984, where after game one when Kasparov had difficulties in the opening, he never allowed the Keres Attack and finally switched to the Najdorf move order. The Najdorf move order, while eliminating 6.g4, allows White additional ...
DTZ is the only metric which supports the fifty-move rule as it determines the distance to a "zeroing-move" (i.e. a move which resets the move count to zero under the fifty-move rule). [35] By definition, all "won" positions will always have DTZ ≤ {\displaystyle \leq } DTC ≤ {\displaystyle \leq } DTM.
Chessmaster 9000 is a 2002 chess video game developed and published by Ubi Soft for the Windows. It is part of the Chessmaster series. The game was announced on July 12, 2002. [8] Grandmaster Larry Christiansen played four matches against the game in September 2002. [9] He won the first match, lost the next two, and match four was a draw. [10]
The first master strength player to experiment with Hippopotamus-type structures appears to have been the Slovak International Master Maximilian Ujtelky. [2] The opening first came to public prominence, however, after being adopted twice by Boris Spassky in his 1966 World Championship match against Tigran Petrosian [3] [4] (after which the set-up was dubbed the "Hippopotamus" by commentators).