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Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a square board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns, with each type of piece having a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be captured (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. The object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw.
The recorded history of chess goes back to at least the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancestor to similar games like Janggi, xiangqi and shogi—in seventh-century India. After its introduction in Persia, it spread to the Arab world and then to Europe. The modern rules of chess emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, with millions of players worldwide.
Organized chess arose in the 19th century. Chess competition today is governed internationally by FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), the International Chess Federation. The first universally recognized World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886; Gukesh Dommaraju is the current World Champion, having won the title in 2024. (Full article...)
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Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. She is the only woman to be ranked in the world top 10 (and one of only three to make the top 100), the only woman to achieve a rating of over 2700, and the only woman to compete in the final stage of a World Chess Championship. She was the top rated woman in the world from January 1989 until her retirement from competitive chess in 2014.
Polgár was a chess prodigy, and at the age of 12 became the youngest player to break into the FIDE top 100 rating list, ranked at 55 in the January 1989 rating list. In 1991 she became the youngest player at the time to achieve the title of Grandmaster, at the age of 15 years and 4 months, breaking the 33-year-old record previously held by former world champion Bobby Fischer. (Full article...)
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Rank | Player | Rating |
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2839 |
2 | ![]() |
2807 |
3 | ![]() |
2784 |
4 | ![]() |
2779 |
5 | ![]() |
2776 |
6 | ![]() |
2776 |
7 | ![]() |
2771 |
8 | ![]() |
2766 |
9 | ![]() |
2748 |
10 | ![]() |
2748 |
11 | ![]() |
2746 |
12 | ![]() |
2745 |
13 | ![]() |
2743 |
14 | ![]() |
2742 |
15 | ![]() |
2742 |
16 | ![]() |
2739 |
17 | ![]() |
2738 |
18 | ![]() |
2736 |
19 | ![]() |
2736 |
20 | ![]() |
2734 |
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