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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 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.
Nigel David Short MBE (born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach and commentator who has been the FIDE Director for Chess Development since September 2022. Short earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 19 and was ranked third in the world by FIDE from July 1988 to July 1989.
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.
The best chess player in the world, and you could make the case for the best ever. Carlsen is the most recognizable name in chess. Even people who don't follow the game may have heard his name.
1933 – The Correspondence Chess League of America (now ICCF U.S.A.) is the first national organization to use a numerical rating system. It chooses the Short system which clubs on the west coast of the US had used. In 1934 the CCLA switched to the Walt James Percentage System but in 1940 returned to a point system designed by Kenneth Williams.
He won the Japan Open 2021 in the previous year, where he was the top-ranked Japanese player. [3] In July 2023, Kojima finished tied for second in the Japan Chess Classic 2023 alongside Trần Thanh Tú, Koya Matsuyama, and Samuel Song. [4] As of September 2023, Kojima is one of two active International Masters in Japan, alongside Ryosuke Nanjo ...
Amir Zaibi (born 22 May 1988) is a Tunisian chess Grandmaster since 2020. According to the International Chess Federation , he is the highest rated active chess player in Tunisia. [ 1 ]