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Highest-ranked Filipino-born player, formerly highest-ranked Filipino player (2009–2014) 6 Azerbaijan: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov: 2820 2018-09 1985 Highest-ranked Azerbaijani player (2006, 2007–2008, 2010–2011, 2017–) 7 France: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave: 2819 2016-08 1990 Highest-ranked French player (2013, since 2014) 8 India: Viswanathan ...
The best-ever Elo ratings are tabulated below. As of September 2023, [update] there are 133 chess players in history who broke 2700, and 15 of them exceeded 2800. Table of top 20 rated players of all-time, with date their best ratings were first achieved
There were unofficial lists in 1964, 1969, 1970 and January 1971, as the Elo rating system was first introduced. [where?From 1971 to 1980, there was one main rating list published each year (for a total of 10), initially published in July from 1971 to 1973, then once in May (1974), before switching to annual publication in January from 1975 to 1980 (in this period, some supplements and ...
Garry Kasparov was the world's highest-rated player on FIDE's rating list for a record 255 months, a number that is well ahead of all other world number ones since the inception of the list. [109] Before the list, Emanuel Lasker was the world's highest-rated player for 292 months between June 1890 and December 1926 according to Chessmetrics. [110]
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. The Elo rating system is used.
The highest ever FIDE rating was 2882, which Magnus Carlsen had on the May 2014 list. ... Elo ratings have also been applied to games without the possibility of ...
His rating has fallen inactive since the January 2006 rating list. [170] In January 1990, Kasparov achieved the (then) highest FIDE rating ever, passing 2800 and breaking Fischer's old record of 2785. By the July 1999 and January 2000 FIDE rating lists, Kasparov had reached a 2851 Elo rating, at that time the highest rating ever achieved. [171]
In the past this would refer to players with an Elo rating of over 2600, but as the average Elo rating of the top players has increased, it has typically come to refer to players with an Elo rating of over 2700. Super GMs have some name recognition and are typically the highest earners in chess. [2] [3]