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  2. Chess rating system - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Yakov Neishtadt - Wikipedia

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    Yakov Neishtadt was born in Moscow on 6 October 1923. During the Second World War he was a lieutenant commander of a rifle platoon. He participated in the battles of Kharkov, Krivoy Rog, Kirovograd, and Moldova, and was wounded twice, in 1942 and 1944. [1]

  4. Thejkumar M. S. - Wikipedia

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    Thejkumar began learning chess from his father at the age of 12. [2] He is the first GM from the state of Karnataka, [3] and achieved six norms (three IM norms and three GM norms) from December 2007 to May 2008. In September 2017, his rating surpassed the 2500+ requirement for the Grandmaster title, allowing him to achieve it at age 36; much ...

  5. Chess - Wikipedia

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    It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). Chess is an abstract strategy game which involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a square game board called a chessboard containing 64 squares arranged in ...

  6. Arthur Guo - Wikipedia

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    The tournament featured ten of the "best of the best of America's chess youths" 20 years or under. [ 25 ] In May and June 2023, Guo made back-to-back GM norms [ 26 ] by earning 6.5/9 points at the Six Days Budapest GM Round Robin [ 27 ] and scoring five wins and four draws with a final score of 7/9 at the First Saturday GM tournament in ...

  7. Turochamp - Wikipedia

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    Turochamp simulates a game of chess against the player by accepting the player's moves as input and outputting its move in response. The program's algorithm uses a heuristic to determine the best move to make, calculating all potential moves that it can make, then all of the potential player responses that could be made in turn, as well as further "considerable" moves, such as captures of ...

  8. List of chess players by peak FIDE rating - Wikipedia

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    Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 1980s Country Player Peak rating in 1980s Achieved 1 Garry Kasparov: 2775 1989-01 2 Anatoly Karpov: 2755 1989-07 3 Mikhail Tal: 2705 1980-01 4 Viktor Korchnoi: 2695 1980-01 5 Jan Timman: 2675 1988-01 6 Nigel Short: 2665 1988-07 7 Artur Yusupov: 2660 1986-07 Vasyl Ivanchuk: 2660 1989-07 9 Lajos ...

  9. Nils Grandelius - Wikipedia

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    In July 2015, he won the Swedish Chess Championship by defeating Emanuel Berg in a playoff match, after they both tied for first scoring 6½/9 points. [13] The following month, Grandelius won the 22nd Abu Dhabi Masters tournament, edging out on tiebreak Martyn Kravtsiv , Baadur Jobava , Alexander Areshchenko and Richárd Rapport .