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  2. Chess rating system - Wikipedia

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    Players' new ratings centre on the average rating of entrants to their competition: then if having achieved better than a net draw set of result, minus the number of percentage points it is over 50% (e.g. a 12–4 or 24–8 wins-to-losses result is, as ever, noted as a 75% tournament outcome) – if having achieved worse than this then the ...

  3. Moulthun Ly - Wikipedia

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    Ly grew up in Queensland, Australia. [7] [8] He is the founder and editor of 50 Moves Magazine, a chess magazine which he operates with contributions from leading Australian players such as fellow Australian grandmasters Ian Rogers and Max Illingworth.

  4. Hans Niemann - Wikipedia

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    Hans Moke Niemann (born June 20, 2003) is an American chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. [1] He first entered the top 100 junior players list on March 1, 2019, and became a FIDE grandmaster on January 22, 2021. [2] [3] [4] In July 2021, he won the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia. He achieved a global ranking of No. 16 in ...

  5. FIDE titles - Wikipedia

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    Arena Grandmaster (AGM) is the highest online title. It is achieved by a series of 150 bullet games, 100 blitz games or 50 rapid games with a performance rating of over 2000. [26] Arena International Master (AIM) is achieved by a series of 150 bullet games, 100 blitz games or 50 rapid games with a performance rating of over 1700. [26]

  6. Norm (chess) - Wikipedia

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    A norm in chess is a high level of performance in a chess tournament. [1] The level of performance is typically measured in tournament performance rating above a certain threshold (for instance, 2600 for GM norm), and there is a requirement on the level of tournament, for instance by a prescribed minimal number of participants of given title/level one meets.

  7. Comparison of top chess players throughout history - Wikipedia

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    The average Elo rating of top players has risen over time. For instance, the average of the top 10 active players rose from 2751 in July 2000 to 2794 in July 2014, a 43-point increase in 14 years. The average rating of the top 100 players, meanwhile, increased from 2644 to 2703, a 59-point increase. [3]

  8. Chess title - Wikipedia

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    Grandmaster (GM) is the highest title a chess player can attain. The usual way for a player to qualify for the Grandmaster title is by achieving a FIDE rating of 2500 at one time and three favorable results in tournaments (called norms) involving other Grandmasters, including some from countries other than the applicant's. International Master ...

  9. Human–computer chess matches - Wikipedia

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    This article documents the progress of significant human–computer chess matches.. Chess computers were first able to beat strong chess players in the late 1980s. Their most famous success was the victory of Deep Blue over then World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, but there was some controversy over whether the match conditions favored the computer.