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Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 2000s Country Player Peak rating in 2000s Achieved 1 Garry Kasparov: 2851 2000-01 2 Veselin Topalov: 2813 2006-07 3 Vladimir Kramnik: 2811 [b] 2002-01 4 Viswanathan Anand: 2803 2006-04 5 Magnus Carlsen: 2801 2009-11 6 Alexander Morozevich: 2788 2008-07 7 Vasyl Ivanchuk: 2787 2007-10 8 Levon Aronian ...
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.
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 .
Seven players have held the world number one ranking over a period of 53 years and 8 months, encompassing 255 rating lists. These seven players include six undisputed world chess champions, with Topalov being the only player to achieve the number one ranking without becoming undisputed world champion, though he was FIDE world champion from 2005 ...
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.
Arena titles can be earned online using FIDE's server, and are intended for players in the lower rating band. Should a player with an arena title gain an over the board FIDE title, this title replaces their arena title. [25] Arena Grandmaster (AGM) is the highest online title. It is achieved by a series of 150 bullet games, 100 blitz games or ...
This is a list of chess organizations. Chess is played all over the world. Chess is played all over the world. The dominant international governing body of chess is FIDE , which confers titles and conducts world championship tournaments.
Pages in category "Chess rating systems" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... List of chess players by peak FIDE rating;