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2016-10 1975 Former world champion (2000–2007), formerly world no. 1 (1996, 2008), formerly youngest player to achieve 2800+ rating 10 Bulgaria: Veselin Topalov: 2816 2015-07 1975 Highest-ranked Bulgarian player (since 1993), former world champion (FIDE 2005–2006), formerly world no. 1 (2006–2007, 2008–2009) United States: Hikaru Nakamura
The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess.The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing body, FIDE.Other than world champion, it is the highest title a chess player can attain and is awarded for life, although FIDE regulations allow for the revocation of titles for cheating or fraud.
In China, Ju and Goryachkina each won a game with white. [59] [60] Back in Russia, Goryachkina took the lead in the eighth game [61] before Ju won back-to-back games, the second of which was the only win with black in the match. [62] Nevertheless, Goryachkina won the last classical game to send the match to a series of four rapid tiebreak games ...
He also represented Singapore in the Chess Olympiad in 2014 (5.5/10 on board 4), [5] 2016 (5/10 on board 3), [6] 2022 [7] (7/10 on board 1) and 2024. He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2021 where he was defeated by Timur Gareyev on tiebreaks in the first round. [8] Tin achieved his third Grandmaster norm at the Hanoi Grandmaster Chess ...
Game 1 last Friday drew 15.2 million viewers — the most-watched World Series opener since Astros-Dodgers 2017 (which delivered 15.3 mil) — and had a peak audience of 17.8 million from 11:30 pm ...
In more recent times, he won the fifth Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament [14] in August 2007, achieving a score of 8½/11 (six wins, five draws), picking up the top purse of £1000. The highest-seeded player in the tournament by 45 Elo points, Adams finished a full point ahead of Dutch Grand Masters Ivan Sokolov and Loek van Wely.
On Fox alone, the World Series in total averaged 15.20 million viewers, up 67% from last year (9.11 million) and the best five-game average since 2017 (16.42 million).
The World Series got off to a good start for Fox on Friday as the game that ended in a dramatic walk-off 6-3 win for the Los Angeles Dodgers over the New York Yankees delivered the largest Game 1 ...