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The lowest-rated individual game was Game 2 in 2023, which had a 4.0 rating. [9] Though the game did not have the smallest viewership in World Series history, that mark belongs to Game 3 in 2023 at 8.126 million. That game had a 4.2 rating. [10] The previous least viewed game was Game 2 in 2023, which had 8.153 million viewers. [9]
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
Goryachkina won the under-10, under-14, and second under-20 gold medals as the top seed in these events, [11] [12] [15] and she was also the second seed in the under-18 event. [13] Her best performance at these tournaments came in the 2011 under-14 event, where she scored a perfect 9/9. During the tournament, she defeated the next three best ...
The Netflix series The Queen's Gambit and its story were influenced by Gaprindashvili's life. [21] The show erroneously described her as a Russian chess player who had never competed against men, [1] while in fact she had played against at least 59 men in 1968 alone (including 10 male grandmasters), and is actually from Georgia. [22]
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.
This was the highest FIDE rating in history until January 2013, when it was surpassed by Magnus Carlsen. On Kasparov's retirement, the world number one ranking passed to Veselin Topalov, since Kasparov was removed from the rating list in April 2006 due to inactivity. In April 2007, Viswanathan Anand became the sixth player to top the rankings. [2]
At the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting in July–August 2013, Adams scored possibly the best result of his career, with a rating performance of 2925. He won the tournament with five wins and four draws (7/9), ahead of a field of 9 other grandmasters whose ratings averaged over 2705, including Fabiano Caruana (2796) and Vladimir Kramnik (2784 ...
Before that, she had also obtained the titles of Woman Grandmaster in 1998 and International Master in 2000. [12] Kosteniuk at the 35th Chess Olympiad, Bled 2002. In 2005, she won the Russian Women's Championship. [13] In August 2006, she became the first Chess960 women's world champion after beating Germany's top female player Elisabeth Pähtz ...