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6 days ago · Lasker's 27-year reign as World Champion is the longest in the history of organized chess since 1886, but featured two separate 10-year spans during which he did not defend his title.
5 days ago · Ding Liren is a Chinese chess player who became the world chess champion in 2023. Ding learned chess at the age of four. His hometown, Wenzhou, is known in China for its strong chess culture, and as a child Ding studied under the same coaches that taught women’s world champion Zhu Chen.
4 days ago · List of chess players by peak FIDE rating. 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.
1 day ago · Follow the live chess ratings of the best chess players in the world (Carlsen, Caruana, Mamedyarov...). See the weekly changes on ratings and how the rankings change.
3 days ago · Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an 11–0 score, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament.
1 day ago · Tal won the World Chess Championship in 1960 by defeating Mikhail Botvinnik, making him the youngest world champion at that time. Despite health issues that plagued much of his career, he remained a formidable opponent and continued to contribute to the chess world as a player, writer, and commentator until his death on June 28, 1992.
2 days ago · A pivotal moment in Kramnik's career was the World Chess Championship match against Kasparov, held from October 8 to November 4, 2000, in London. In this titanic contest, Kramnik's resolute strategic prowess eventually triumphed over Kasparov's dynamic style.
