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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.
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 ...
Formerly female world no. 1 (1983, 1984), highest-ranked Swedish female player (since 1981) 22 China Qatar: Zhu Chen: 2548 2008-01 1976 Former women's world champion (2001–2004), highest-ranked Qatari female player (since 2006) Russia: Valentina Gunina: 2548 2015-06 1989 24 India: Harika Dronavalli: 2543 2016-11 1991 25 Lithuania
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, [3] [4] commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ ˈ f iː d eɪ / FEE-day, Fédération Internationale des Échecs), [5] is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.
He would dominate for 22 years from 1984 until his retirement from professional chess on 10 March 2005, with three brief interruptions: Anatoly Karpov briefly held the world number one ranking again in July 1985, as well as during 1994 when FIDE excluded Kasparov from the list; and the fourth world number one, Vladimir Kramnik, briefly held the ...
Similar titles are awarded by the International Correspondence Chess Federation, and by the World Federation for Chess Composition for both composing and solving chess problems. [4] These bodies work in cooperation with FIDE but are now independent of it.
The new regulations, approved by FIDE's council this month, will come into effect on Aug. 21 and require transgender players to provide "sufficient proof of a gender change that complies with ...
The dominant international governing body of chess is FIDE, which confers titles and conducts world championship tournaments. [ 1 ] The first Official World Championship was held in 1886, and there has always been at least one world champion since then. [ 2 ]