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  2. Comparison of top chess players throughout history - Wikipedia

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    In 2021, Hikaru Nakamura published a Youtube video entitled "Hikaru's Hot Takes on the Ten Best Chess Players of All Time" [47] in which he reviewed a chess.com article on "The 10 Best Chess Players Of All Time." [48] In this video he suggested that it was unfair to exclude Paul Morphy and Viswanathan Anand from the 10 greatest players of all ...

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

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    Highest-ranked Chinese player (since 2015), former World Chess Champion (2023–2024) 13 Russia: Alexander Grischuk: 2810 2014-12 1983 14 Iran France: Alireza Firouzja: 2804 2021-12 2003 Highest-ranked Iranian-born player, formerly highest-ranked Iranian player (2019), youngest player to achieve 2800+ rating 15 India: Arjun Erigaisi: 2801 2024 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Bobby Fischer - Wikipedia

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    An article in which Fischer named Paul Morphy, Howard Staunton, Wilhelm Steinitz, Siegbert Tarrasch, Mikhail Chigorin, Alexander Alekhine, José Raúl Capablanca, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, and Samuel Reshevsky as the greatest players of all time. Fischer's criterion for inclusion on his list was his own subjective appreciation of their games ...

  6. Magnus Carlsen - Wikipedia

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    Chess statistician Jeff Sonas has declared it one of the 20 best tournament performances of all time, and the best chess performance of all time by a teenager. [86] In the Tal Memorial, played from 5 to 14 November, Carlsen started with seven straight draws, but finished with wins over former FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov and Peter Leko.

  7. List of chess grandmasters - Wikipedia

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    The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess.The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing body, FIDE.Other than world champion, it is the highest title a chess player can attain and is awarded for life, although FIDE regulations allow for the revocation of titles for cheating or fraud.

  8. Garry Kasparov - Wikipedia

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    Kasparov received a Chess Oscar eleven times as the best chess player of the year, in 1982–1983, 1985–1988, 1995–1996, 1999, and 2001–2002. [139] Between 1981 and 1991, he won or tied for first place in every tournament he entered. [ 140 ]

  9. List of world records in chess - Wikipedia

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    The Best Theoretical Novelties contains the games with the ten highest-ranked theoretical novelties (TNs) that appeared in each of Volumes 11 through 110 of Chess Informant. [36] The earliest such novelty occurred on White's fourth move in Karpov – Miles , Bugojno 1978, namely 1.c4 b6 2.d4 e6 3.d5 Qh4 4.Nc3 !