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John Michael Burke (born July 1, 2001) is an American chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). A chess prodigy, Burke reached an Elo rating of 2603 [1] in September 2015. At the time, this made him the youngest-ever player to reach a rating of 2600 or above, [2] a record since broken by Turkish GM Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş. [3]
Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 1970s Country Player Peak rating in 1970s Achieved 1 Bobby Fischer: 2785 1972-07 2 Anatoly Karpov: 2725 1978-01 3 Viktor Korchnoi: 2695 1979-01 4 Boris Spassky: 2690 1971-07 5 Bent Larsen: 2660 1971-07 Mikhail Tal: 2660 1973-07 7 Lajos Portisch: 2650 1973-07 8 Tigran Petrosian: 2645 1972-07 Lev ...
Maxim Alexandrovich Dlugy [1] [2] (born January 29, 1966) is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster. [3]He was born in Moscow, USSR, and arrived with his family in the United States in 1977.
FIDE publishes lists of highest-rated girl chess players; a "girl" is defined as being a player who is aged under 20 at the start of the year, and female. The following is a list of the players ranked number one girl in the FIDE rating system from January 2000 to the present day, along with their ratings during the periods in question.
At the 2024 Candidates Tournament in April, Firouzja finished in seventh place. He won two games, and lost six. He was the only player to defeat the winner, Gukesh D. On June 13th, Firouzja won the Bullet Chess Championship on Chess.com by defeating American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura in the final. [84]
Sutovsky learned to play chess at the age of four. [4] He achieved notable successes by winning the World Junior Chess Championship in Medellín in 1996, finishing first at the double round-robin VAM Hoogeveen Tournament in 1997 (ahead of Judit Polgár, Loek van Wely, and Vasily Smyslov) and winning Hastings 2000 (ahead of Alexey Dreev, Ivan Sokolov and Jonathan Speelman).
Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati (3 September 2002 – 15 June 2021) was an Indian student who invented a six-player variant of chess at the age of 9 with assistance from his father. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] He earned a patent for his invention in 2012, making him the youngest patent-holder in India at that time.
In 1955, Bloodgood played a number of chess games against actor Humphrey Bogart, who was a good amateur player. [3] [better source needed] Bloodgood was an active chess organizer in Hampton Roads, Virginia in the late 1950s. He was the rating statistician for the Virginia State Chess Federation, where he rated himself at an Elo rating of 1956.