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Born. (1998-09-05) 5 September 1998 (age 26) White Plains, New York. Title. FIDE Master (2015) Peak rating. 2387 (April 2016) Joshua Colas (born 5 September 1998) is an American chess player who holds the title of FIDE International Master (Elect).
2504 (July 2001) Website. mauriceashley.com. Maurice Ashley(born March 6, 1966) is a Jamaican and American chess player, author, and commentator. [1][2]In 1999, he earned the FIDE titleof Grandmaster(GM). [3] Ashley is well known as a commentator for high-profile chess events.[4] He also spent many years teaching chess.
h. The starting position of chess. The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory. The other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. [ 1 ] Many opening sequences, known as openings, have standard names such as " Sicilian Defense ".
British Chess Federation "Book of the Year" Award in 1998 for his book My Best Games of Chess. [177] Anand has won the Chess Oscar in 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008. The Chess Oscar is awarded to the year's best player according to a worldwide poll of leading chess critics, writers, and journalists conducted by the Russian chess magazine ...
FIDE rankings. 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.
He learned chess from his father at the age of 8, and was mentored by Alexander Stripunsky [3] and Elizabeth Vicary. [4]In 2011, Black, along with fellow New Yorkers Joshua Colas and Justus Williams, became the youngest African-American chess players to achieve the title of USCF Master; all doing so before the age of 13. [5]
No. 19 (October 2024) Peak ranking. No. 16 (September 2024) Hans Moke Niemann (born June 20, 2003) is an American chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. [ 1 ] He first entered the top 100 junior players list on March 1, 2019, and became a FIDE grandmaster on January 22, 2021. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] In July 2021, he won the World Open chess tournament ...
No. 4 (October 2024) Peak ranking. No. 2 (October 2014) Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning three-time United States Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2844, Caruana is the third-highest-rated player in history. Born in Miami to Italian parents, Caruana grew up in Brooklyn.