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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.
Although Live ratings are unofficial, interest arose in Live ratings in August/September 2008 when five different players took the "Live" No. 1 ranking. [17] The unofficial live ratings of players over 2700 were published and maintained by Hans Arild Runde at the Live Rating website until August 2011. Another website, 2700chess.com, has been ...
The cut-off value is 2700 for men (players with a rating at or above this value are colloquially known as super grandmasters) and 2500 for women. Notably, only six players achieved their over-2700 peak before the year 2000 and twenty-one players achieved their respective peak between the years 2000 and 2009 (inclusive).
Gukesh Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006), better known as D. Gukesh, is an Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning FIDE World Chess Champion.A chess prodigy, Gukesh is the youngest undisputed world champion, the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2750, doing so at the age of 17, and the third-youngest to have surpassed 2700 Elo at the age of 16.
Players (2700+) Winner Runner-up Third GCT Poland Warsaw: Round robin [a] 24 April – 1 May 10 GCT Croatia Zagreb: Round robin [a] 30 Jun – 7 Jul 10 Esports World Cup [8] [b] Riyadh: TBD 31 Jul – 3 Aug 16 GCT St. Louis St. Louis: Round robin [a] 9 – 16 Aug 10 World Rapid Championship: Doha: Swiss 25 – 31 Dec TBD World Blitz ...
In August 2024, Naroditsky crossed 2700 FIDE Blitz rating for the first time, and was ranked #23 in the World and #5 in the USA in Blitz. [ 21 ] In December 2024, Naroditsky tied for first place in the Swiss portion of the 2024 World Blitz Chess Championship with a score of 9.5/13 and performance rating of 2749, finishing 9th place on tiebreaks ...
The 2025 FIDE Circuit is a system comprising the top chess tournaments in 2025, which serves as a qualification path for the Candidates Tournament 2026. Players receive points based on their performance and the strength of the tournament.
In 1970, FIDE adopted Elo's system for rating current players, so one way to compare players of different eras is to compare their Elo ratings. The best-ever Elo ratings are tabulated below. As of September 2023, there are 133 chess players in history who broke 2700, and 15 of them exceeded 2800.