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Formerly youngest grandmaster (1994–1997), formerly highest-ranked Hungarian player (1999–2021, 2022–2024) Soviet Union United States: Gata Kamsky: 2763 2013-07 1974 Formerly highest-ranked American player (2008–2010) China: Wang Hao: 2763 2020-04 1989 China: Wei Yi: 2763 2024-10 1999 Youngest player to achieve 2700+ rating 38 Azerbaijan
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.
As a result of Dubov missing the game, Niemann was awarded a win and Dubov a forfeit loss. [11] This would prove to be relevant as Dubov would finish the Day 1 Swiss-system tournament in a ten-way tie for first place, with only the top eight players advancing to the Day 2 Knockout stage according to the tournament's tiebreak criteria. [12]
Maurizzi earned his Grandmaster title in 2021, a few days after turning fourteen, becoming the youngest French player to achieve the title. [2]In 2023, Maurizzi participated in the World Junior Chess Championship, where he was the fourth seed.
Gukesh Dommaraju won the 2024 World Chess Championship, becoming the youngest undisputed world chess champion at the age of 18. [1]The Candidates Tournament and Women's Candidates Tournament were held concurrently for the first time to determine the challengers for the reigning world champions Ding Liren and Ju Wenjun. [2]
He qualified to play in the Chess World Cup 2021, where he was defeated 1½-½ by Velimir Ivić in the first round. [9] In January 2022, he took second place in the Floripa Chess Open, the largest open chess tournament in Brazil. [10] In February 2022, he took second place in the Montevideo Chess Open. [11]
His personal best rating of 2760 makes him the highest ranked Polish player of all time. Duda won the Polish Championship in 2018 and the Chess World Cup in 2021. He is a bronze medallist at the European Team Chess Championship in 2021 and he also competed in the Candidates Tournament 2022 finishing seventh.
Anish Sarkar (born 26 January 2021) is an Indian chess player. He is the world's youngest FIDE rated player since November 2024. [ 1 ] In 2024, Sarkar became the youngest to be awarded the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar .