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Formerly highest-ranked Chinese player (2007–2008, 2008–2015) 47 Soviet Union Latvia Spain: Alexei Shirov: 2755 2008-01 1972 Highest-ranked Spanish player (1995–2011, since 2018), formerly highest-ranked Latvian player (1992–1994, 2011–2018) 48 Georgia Czech Republic Slovakia Armenia: Sergei Movsesian: 2751 2009-01 1978
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.
He gave ratings to players corresponding to their performance over the best five-year span of their career. According to this system the highest ratings achieved were: 2725: José Raúl Capablanca. 2720: Mikhail Botvinnik, Emanuel Lasker. 2700: Mikhail Tal. 2690: Alexander Alekhine, Paul Morphy, Vasily Smyslov.
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.
He has held the No. 1 position in the FIDE world chess rankings since 1 July 2011 and trails only Garry Kasparov in time spent as the highest-rated player in the world. [1] His peak rating of 2882 is the highest in history. He also holds the record for the longest unbeaten streak at an elite level in classical chess at 125 games. [2] [3]
In July 2023, Ding became the No. 1 ranked Rapid player, with a rating of 2830. [6] Ding was undefeated in classical chess from August 2017 to November 2018, recording 29 victories and 71 draws. This 100-game unbeaten streak was the longest in top-level chess history, [7] until Magnus Carlsen surpassed it in 2019. [8]
The authors used the program Crafty and argued that even a lower-ranked program (Elo around 2700) could identify good players. [19] In their follow-up study, they used Rybka 3 to estimate chess player ratings. [20] In 2017, Jean-Marc Alliot compared players using Stockfish 6 with an ELO rating around 3300, well above top human players. [21]
List of female chess grandmasters. 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.