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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 ...
In 2022, with the chess team of the Saint Louis University, he achieved first place in the Final Four of the USA Collegiate Chess. Nikolas Theodorou played for Greece in the European Team Chess Championship: [2] In 2017, at third board in the 21st European Team Chess Championship in Hersonissos (+3, =1, -3).
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
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.
2015-10 1994 Highest-ranked Dutch player (since 2011) 17 Russia: Ian Nepomniachtchi: 2795 2023-03 1990 18 India: Gukesh Dommaraju: 2794 2024-10 2006 Current World Chess Champion (since 2024) 19 Azerbaijan: Teimour Radjabov: 2793 2012-11 1987 Formerly highest-ranked Azerbaijani player (2002–2005, 2006, 2009–2010, 2011–2017) 20 Russia
Female chess players in the modern era generally compete in a mix of open and women's tournaments. With women representing a low fraction of all chess players throughout history, it has been uncommon for women to win open tournaments where women and men are mixed together, particularly at the higher levels.
In chess, where results are simply win/loss or draw, strength of schedule is the idea behind the methods based on the games already played: that the player that played the harder competition to achieve the same number of points should be ranked higher. In other games, results may supply more data used for breaking ties.
This was the second edition of the Qatar Masters Open, played from December 20 to December 29, 2015. The time control for each of the tournament games was 90 minutes for the first 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.