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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.
This list of top-ranked chess grandmasters is ordered by their peak Elo rating. The cut-off value is 2700 for men (players with a rating at or above this value are colloquially known as super grandmasters) and 2500 for women.
CountryPlayerPeak RatingAchieved128822Soviet Union Russia28513Italy United States28444Armenia Germany United States2830Magnus Carlsen. Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen [a] (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, the reigning five-time World Rapid Chess Champion, the reigning seven-time World Blitz Chess Champion, and the reigning Chess World Cup Champion.
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Table 1 shows that the median years from list entry to gaining the title is about nine years, again with a huge range. Figure 4 shows that the median number of years to gain the title has risen steadily from 1972, perhaps because it is much easier to enter the FIDE list. Figure 4 FIDE reports game numbers in a rating period only from July 1985 and ...
As noted, the average rating for top ten players has risen since 1970, but has that for all grandmasters? I looked at ratings of the 1751 grandmasters only after GM appeared in their title field, disregarding ratings before they gained the title. Figure 6 presents the average rating in the first list each year from 1972 to 2020. Although the sample...
And finally, what does it take to become a grandmaster? Can it be almost anyone with enough willpower as U.S. president Calvin Coolidge argued, “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence… Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent”. Or does it require much natural talent, including a high IQ score, and extensive practice? A vie...
This is a list of chess grandmasters rated 2700+, plus other players of the highest status. There are at present over 1900 chess grandmasters, and the full list is on English wiki. Notice also the list in Di Felice, Gino 2017. Chess International Titleholders, 1950–2016. McFarland, ISBN 978-1-4766-7132-1 .
Jan 21, 2024 · Leonid 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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Aug 20, 2021 · Evgeny Sveshnikov, a chess grandmaster who was among the world’s best players in the 1970s and who made significant contributions to the theory of the game, particularly in the openings, one of...
