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Other factors were taken into account, but have less influence; for example the quality of chess played, the closeness of the contest and the number of world top 10 or 'big reputation' players who took part, and the time control (no fast chess tournaments are listed).
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.
Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 1990s Country Player Peak rating in 1990s Achieved 1 Garry Kasparov: 2851 1999-07 2 Viswanathan Anand: 2795 1998-07 3 Vladimir Kramnik: 2790 1998-01 4 Anatoly Karpov: 2780 1994-07 5 Alexander Morozevich: 2758 1999-07 6 Veselin Topalov: 2750 1996-07 7 Gata Kamsky: 2745 1996-07 8 Alexei Shirov: 2740 ...
Historically, teams played for the pleasure of winning the Europa Cup, but nowadays this has been overshadowed by the popular medal-winning format of the 'Olympics' and Chess Olympiad. Gold, silver and bronze medals are awarded to the top three teams and also as board prizes for outstanding individual performances.
Aside from the many local leagues, the Four Nations Chess League is effectively a prestigious tournament run on a league format, to which many of the British and world's elite players are attracted. The most famous tournament held in Britain is probably the Hastings International Chess Congress , which runs from late December to early January.
As the European Championships are part of the FIDE World Championship cycle, starting with the 2001 edition, the new, faster FIDE time control was used. This led to many complaints by the participants about increased stress, incessant time trouble and a steep deterioration of the quality of the games.
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. Most of the systems are used to ...
He would dominate for 22 years from 1984 until his retirement from professional chess on 10 March 2005, with three brief interruptions: Anatoly Karpov briefly held the world number one ranking again in July 1985, as well as during 1994 when FIDE excluded Kasparov from the list; and the fourth world number one, Vladimir Kramnik, briefly held the ...