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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.
Vietnam: Lê Quang Liêm: 2741 2024-08 1991 Highest-ranked Vietnamese player (since 2009) 58 Soviet Union Russia Canada: Evgeny Bareev: 2739 2003-10 1966 Highest-ranked Canadian player (since 2015) 59 Russia: Maxim Matlakov: 2738 2017-11 1991 60 Latvia Germany Azerbaijan Bulgaria: Arkadij Naiditsch: 2737 2013-12 1985
Lê Quang Liêm (born 13 March 1991) is a Vietnamese chess grandmaster, the top-ranked of his country. [2] He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Liêm won the Asian Chess Championship in 2019 and was the World Blitz Chess Champion in 2013. He has competed for team Vietnam at the Chess Olympiad since 2006. The best result ...
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.
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and norms (performance benchmarks in competitions including other titled players).
A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by organizations such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation.
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, [3] [4] commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ ˈ f iː d eɪ / FEE-day, Fédération Internationale des Échecs), [5] is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.
The Vietnamese Chess Championship has been held annually since 1980 by the Vietnam Chess Federation (Vietnamese: Liên đoàn Cờ Việt Nam), which joined FIDE in 1988. [1] The federation has also organized an annual Vietnamese Women's Chess Championship since 1983.