This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. Jacob Aagaard (Denmark...
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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...
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Amongst Indian chess players there are 85 Grandmasters (GM); 124 International Masters (IM); 23 Woman Grandmasters (WGM), including some who also hold...
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This is a list of Israeli chess title-holders (active players only), as of April 2016. Boris Alterman Boris Avrukh Tal Baron Sergey Erenburg Alexander...
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This list of Russian chess players lists people from Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire who are primarily known as chess players. The majority...
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comparing the greatest chess players in history. There is agreement on a statistical system to rate the strengths of current players, called the Elo system...
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Vaganian Chess in Armenia List of Armenians List of chess players Elo rating list of top 100 Armenian chess players Armenian Chess Players BBC iPlayer - Assignment...
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Jewish players and theoreticians have long been involved in the game of chess and have significantly contributed to the development of chess. Chess gained...
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translated title The Chess Players, is a 1977 Indian film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name. Amjad...
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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...
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A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. The first...
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Several amateur chess players have been noted in other endeavors, while their lives and work have been influenced by the game of chess. Woody Allen The...
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Məmmədova Chess in Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Chess Federation List of Azerbaijanis List of chess players Elo rating list of top 100 Azerbaijani chess players FIDE...
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The Chess Players is an 1876 genre painting by the American painter Thomas Eakins, Goodrich catalogue #96. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan...
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lists female chess players who have received FIDE (International Chess Federation) titles or have other significant achievements in chess. There are 42...
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There are 42 female chess players who hold the title of Grandmaster (GM), the highest title awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The Grandmaster...
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unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named opening...
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This is a list of Polish chess masters. Some players assumed the citizenship of another country later in their careers (for example Janowski and Najdorf...
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A list of Spanish chess players: Miguel Albareda Creus Olga Alexandrova Beatriz Alfonso Nogue Vicente Almirall Castell Alvar Alonso Rosell Francisco de...
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awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....
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Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...
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over-the-board (OTB) chess, where the players sit at a physical chessboard at the same time; and most online chess, where the players play each other in...
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the two dominant chess players of the 1830s.[citation needed] The 1840s were dominated by Howard Staunton, and other leading players of the era included...
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significant. The list does not include online poker or online chess players, since they are usually separated from esports. List of esports leagues and...
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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...
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Chess960 (redirect from Fischerandom chess)
notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...
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adult players and even titled chess masters. Some chess prodigies have progressed to become grandmasters or even World Chess Champions. Early chess prodigies...
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The World Chess Championship 2024, officially known as the World Chess Championship 2024 presented by Google, is an ongoing chess match between the reigning...
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Khan) was a chess player from British India, and later a citizen of Pakistan, who was the strongest Asian player of the early 1930s. The son of a Muslim...
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The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...
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