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FIDE publishes lists of highest-rated junior chess players; a "junior" is defined as being a player who is aged under 20 at the start of the year. The following is a list of the players ranked number one junior in the FIDE rating system from July 1999 to the present day, along with their ratings during the periods in question.
Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 1990s Country Player Peak rating in 1990s Achieved 1 Garry Kasparov: 2851 1999-07 2 Viswanathan Anand: 2795 1998-07 3 Vladimir Kramnik: 2790 1998-01 4 Anatoly Karpov: 2780 1994-07 5 Alexander Morozevich: 2758 1999-07 6 Veselin Topalov: 2750 1996-07 7 Gata Kamsky: 2745 1996-07 8 Alexei Shirov: 2740 ...
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.
Étienne Bacrot (French pronunciation: [etjɛn bakʁo]; born 22 January 1983) is a French chess grandmaster, and as a child, a chess prodigy. He competed at the Candidates Matches in 2007 and won the Aeroflot Open in 2009. He passed 2700 FIDE rating in 2004 and in January 2005 he became the first French player to enter the top 10.
He won the World Blitz Chess Championship 2021, and was the only player to defeat eventual winner Magnus Carlsen during the 2023 edition. As of January 2024, [update] Maxime ranked third on the FIDE rapid list [ 23 ] and tenth on the blitz list.
Alireza Firouzja (Persian: علیرضا فیروزجا, pronounced [æliːɾeˈzɒː fiːɾuːzˈdʒɒː]; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian-French chess grandmaster.Firouzja is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2800, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months.
FIDE awarded him the title of Grandmaster in 2016. [3] Moussard won the Paris championship in 2016 and 2018. [ 4 ] Also in 2018, he won the London Chess Classic FIDE Open on tiebreak score over Nicholas Pert , after both players scored 7½ points out of 9.
The average Elo rating of top players has risen over time. For instance, the average of the top 10 active players rose from 2751 in July 2000 to 2794 in July 2014, a 43-point increase in 14 years. The average rating of the top 100 players, meanwhile, increased from 2644 to 2703, a 59-point increase. [3]