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Garry Kimovich Kasparov[a](born Garik Kimovich Weinstein[b]on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion(1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDEchess ratingof 2851,[2]achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsenin 2013. From 1984 until his retirement from ...
Lev Alburt (born 1945) Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946), world champion. Alexei Alekhine (1888–1939) Evgeny Alekseev (born 1985) Nana Alexandria (born 1949) Farrukh Amonatov (born 1978) Dmitry Andreikin (born 1990) Vladimir Antoshin (1929–1994) Fricis Apsenieks (1894–1941)
Ian Nepomniachtchi. Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi (Russian: Ян Алекса́ндрович Непо́мнящий, romanized: Yan Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchiy, IPA: [ˈjan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈpomnʲɪɕːɪj] ⓘ; born 14 July 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster . Nepomniachtchi won the 2010 and 2020 Russian Superfinal and ...
Peak ranking. No. 2 (January 1980) Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal[ a] (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) [ 1] was a Soviet and Latvian chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and is widely regarded as one of the most influential players in chess history. Tal played in an attacking and daring combinatorial ...
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine[ a][ b] (October 31 [ O.S. October 19] 1892 – March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in ...
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 body, FIDE.Other than world champion, it is the highest title a chess player can attain and is awarded for life, although FIDE regulations allow for the revocation of titles for cheating or fraud.
Dmitry Andreikin. Pavel Anisimov. Mikhail Antipov. Vladimir Antoshin. Valentin Arbakov. Sergey Arkhipov (chess player) Lev Aronin. Vladislav Artemiev. Konstantin Aseev.
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 ...