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Highest-ranked Lithuanian female player (since 1999) 26 Ukraine United States: Anna Zatonskih: 2537 2011-05 1978 Highest-ranked American female player (since 2019) France: Marie Sebag: 2537 2013-03 1986 Highest-ranked French female player (since 2007) 28 Georgia: Bella Khotenashvili: 2531 2013-06 1988 29 Georgia: Nino Batsiashvili: 2528 2018-03 ...
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 .
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.
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.
BBC award-winning journalists, from their book Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (HarperCollins, 2004): Fischer, some will maintain, was the outstanding player in chess history, though there are powerful advocates too for Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, and Kasparov. Many chess players ...
In 2006 economists Charles C. Moul and John V. C. Nye used Chessmetrics to determine the "expected" results of games, and wrote: Ratings in chess that make use of rigorous statistics to produce good estimates of relative player strength are now relatively common, but comparing ratings across different time periods is often complicated by idiosyncratic changes (cf. Elo, 1968 for the pioneering ...
In 2019, when Jennifer Yu scored 10/11 in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship, [21] Jennifer Shahade, a two-time U.S. women's champion stated, "[Yu] blew the competition out of the water, her performance is one of the best I've ever seen; [the fact that Yu won] so many games against professional adults, as well as girls, is just really ...
Maurice Ashley (born March 6, 1966) is a Jamaican and American chess player, author, and commentator. [1] [2] In 1999, he earned the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).[3]Ashley is well known as a commentator for high-profile chess events. [4]