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Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. Once achieved, the title is held for life, though exceptionally the title can be revoked for cheating.
For living grandmasters, this field is a weblink to the FIDE Chess Profile page which usually gives the year the GM title was awarded and the player's birth year. FIDE IDs for deceased grandmasters are retained in this table to aid matching with older FIDE records such as the FIDE rating lists.
Longest game. The longest tournament chess game (in terms of moves) ever to be played was Nikolić–Arsović, Belgrade 1989, which lasted for 269 moves and took 20 hours and 15 minutes to complete a drawn game. [ 1][ 2] At the time this game was played, FIDE had modified the fifty-move rule to allow 100 moves to be played without a piece being ...
Wikipedia lists all grandmasters from 1950 and their title award dates, with data evidently taken mostly from title applications and rating lists. The Wikipedia count from 1950 to 2019 (the last full year), including 31 honorary ones since 1970, is 1888 and from 1972 to 2019 is 1781.
The world’s oldest grandmaster, Yuri Averbakh, passed away aged 100 on May 7. The venerable Russian had been a world title candidate, an aide to champions, and chief arbiter at top matches, as...
Apr 2, 2024 · Twelve-year-old Turkish chess sensation IM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus is the new youngest grandmaster in the world and the fourth youngest to achieve the title in history. He earned his third grandmaster norm in Germany on Monday and his title is pending approval from FIDE.
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Jan 21, 2024 · Leonic Ivanovic from Serbia has earned his place in the history books by becoming the first player under the age of nine to defeat a grandmaster in classical chess.
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