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In 2021, Hikaru Nakamura published a Youtube video entitled "Hikaru's Hot Takes on the Ten Best Chess Players of All Time" in which he reviewed a chess.com article on "The 10 Best Chess Players Of All Time." In this video he suggested that it was unfair to exclude Paul Morphy and Viswanathan Anand from the 10 greatest players of all time ...
R Praggnanandhaa. Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess prodigy and chess grandmaster. As of 20 June 2024, Praggnanandhaa is ranked #8 in the world by the International Chess Federation. [1] Praggnanandhaa and his sister Vaishali are the first brother-sister duo to both earn the GM title. [2]
Dina Belenkaya. Dina Vadimovna Belenkaya (Russian: Дина Вадимовна Беленькая; born 22 December 1993) is a Russian-Israeli chess player, commentator, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a four-time St. Petersburg women's champion, and has represented St. Petersburg at the ...
Yuri Semyonovich Gusev (born September 25, 1921 – ?) is a Soviet chess player and was a Merited Master of Sport of the USSR (1951). He is also a former radio engineer. Gusev peaked with a classical Elo rating of 2,380, [1] making him the equivalent of a FIDE Master in terms of strength, although it is not clear what title he ultimately achieved.
Firouzja was born on 18 June 2003 in Babol, Iran. [6] He started playing chess at the age of eight. [7] He has an older brother, Mohammadreza (born 1998), who also plays competitive chess. [8] Firouzja moved to Chartres, France, in 2019 and subsequently obtained French citizenship in July 2021. [2] [3] As of May 2023, Firouzja is studying ...
Title. Grandmaster (2009) FIDE rating. 2400 (June 2024) Peak rating. 2563 (January 2006) Benjamin Philip Finegold (born September 6, 1969) is an American chess grandmaster and YouTuber / Twitch streamer. He had previously been nicknamed the "strongest International Master in the United States" until receiving his Grandmaster (GM) title in 2009.
Peak rating. 2344 (July 2015) Jeffrey William Sarwer (born 14 May 1978) is a Canadian-Finnish ( dual citizenship) former child chess prodigy whose charismatic personality and chess talent made him a well-known media figure. His chess career and his family's unconventional lifestyle were the subjects of many articles and TV shows.
In January 2023, Woodward was named to the age 11 section of the All-America Chess Team. [6] He has been part of the All-America Chess Team since 2020. In April 2023, Woodward earned his second GM norm at the Vezerkepzo GM April tournament with a score of 7.0/9, defeating GM Kaido Külaots and GM Valeriy Neverov. [7]