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Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 2020s Country Player Peak rating in 2020s Achieved 1 Magnus Carlsen: 2872 2020-01 2 Fabiano Caruana: 2842 2020-02 3 Ding Liren: 2811 2022-10 4 Alireza Firouzja: 2804 2021-12 5 Hikaru Nakamura: 2802 2024-07 6 Arjun Erigaisi: 2801 2024-12 7 Ian Nepomniachtchi: 2795 2023-03 8 Gukesh Dommaraju: 2794 2024 ...
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.
Players Winner Runner-up Third Poland Rapid & Blitz: Warsaw: Round robin: 17–24 May: 10: Jan-Krzysztof Duda: Levon Aronian Viswanathan Anand – Croatia Rapid & Blitz: Zagreb: Round robin: 18–25 Jul: 10: Magnus Carlsen: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Alireza Firouzja – Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz: Saint Louis: Round robin: 24–31 Aug: 10: Alireza ...
FIDE publishes lists of highest-rated girl chess players; a "girl" is defined as being a player who is aged under 20 at the start of the year, and female. The following is a list of the players ranked number one girl in the FIDE rating system from January 2000 to the present day, along with their ratings during the periods in question.
Carlsen won the World Rapid Chess Championship 2022 with a score of 10/13 (+8-1=4). He also won the World Blitz Chess Championship 2022 with a score of 16/21 (+13-2=6). This marks the third time in Carlsen's career that he has simultaneously held the Classical, Rapid, and Blitz World Titles, with 2014 and 2019 being the other two occurrences.
Players are not allowed to draw by agreement. The event is a 14-player round-robin, where every player plays once against every other player on the field. Players get 1 point for a win, 0.5 points for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. The player with the most points at the end of the last round wins the event.
The Champions Chess Tour 2022, known for sponsorship reasons as the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, was a 9-month series of nine online chess tournaments featuring some of the world's top players, who played for a prize money pool of US$1.6 million. The tour started on February 19, 2022 and lasted until November 20, 2022.
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 ...