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Lê Quang Liêm (born 13 March 1991) is a Vietnamese chess grandmaster, the top-ranked of his country. [ 2 ] He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Liêm won the Asian Chess Championship in 2019 and was the World Blitz Chess Champion in 2013.
A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. [ 1 ] The first world number one, in July 1971, was Bobby Fischer. In January 1976 Anatoly Karpov became the highest-rated player on the FIDE list, FIDE having dropped Fischer (whose rating was higher ...
The Elo rating system is used. Top players. Best Performing Countries – Open [1] ... Quang Liem Le: 2739 16 Levon Aronian: 2738 17 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave: 2735 18
Lê Quang Liêm: 2741 2024-08 1991 Highest-ranked Vietnamese player (since 2009) 58 Soviet Union Russia Canada: Evgeny Bareev: 2739 2003-10 1966 Highest-ranked Canadian player (since 2015) 59 Russia: Maxim Matlakov: 2738 2017-11 1991 60 Latvia Germany Azerbaijan Bulgaria: Arkadij Naiditsch: 2737 2013-12 1985
Christopher Hikaru Nakamura[ 2 ] (born December 9, 1987) is an American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he earned his grandmaster title at the age of 15, the youngest American at the time to do so.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (French pronunciation: [maksim vaʃje laɡʁav]; born 21 October 1990), often referred to by his initials, MVL, is a French chess grandmaster who is a former World Blitz Champion. [1] With a peak rating of 2819, he is the seventh-highest rated player in history. A chess prodigy, Vachier-Lagrave earned the title of ...
Ruslan Olehovych Ponomariov (Ukrainian: Русла́н Оле́гович Пономарьо́в; born 11 October 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was FIDE World Chess Champion from 2002 to 2004. He won the Ukrainian Chess Championship in 2011. He was runner-up in the Chess World Cup 2005 and Chess World Cup 2009, while reaching the ...
The Chess World Cup 2023 was a 206-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 30 July to 24 August 2023. [1] It was the 10th edition of the Chess World Cup.