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  2. List of FIDE chess world number ones - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of chess players by peak FIDE rating - Wikipedia

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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

  4. Arjun Erigaisi - Wikipedia

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    Arjun Erigaisi (born 3 September 2003) [1] is an Indian chess grandmaster.A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 13 days.In September 2024 he became India's top rated player, and in December 2024 he achieved his peak rating of 2801 which makes him the fifteenth-highest rated player in history and second Indian ever to cross the 2800 threshold ...

  5. Jan-Krzysztof Duda - Wikipedia

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    On 1 July 2017, Duda became the first Polish junior player to break the 2700 barrier in FIDE rating, achieving the highest ranking in his chess career so far. With a rating of 2707, he was the second highest ranked Polish player and 41st in the world at the time.

  6. Andy Woodward (chess player) - Wikipedia

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    They met again in the final in 2025, and this time Andy prevailed. [10] [11] On January 30, 2024, Woodward earned his final GM norm at the Jeddah International Chess Festival with a score of 6.0/9 after losing his first two rounds against Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş and Volodar Murzin.

  7. Anish Sarkar - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  8. Alireza Firouzja - Wikipedia

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    Alireza Firouzja (Persian: علیرضا فیروزجا, pronounced [æliːɾeˈzɒː fiːɾuːzˈdʒɒː]; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian-French chess grandmaster.Firouzja is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2800, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months.

  9. World Blitz Chess Championship 2024 - Wikipedia

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    The top 8 players from the Swiss system proceeded to the knockout rounds, where players played four-game matches in quarter finals, semi-finals, and finals. The time control is blitz, with each player given 3 minutes plus 2 additional seconds per move, starting from the first move. [4]