This listofchessplayers includes people who are primarily known as chessplayers and have an article on the English Wikipedia. Jacob Aagaard (Denmark...
Jewish players and theoreticians have long been involved in the game ofchess and have significantly contributed to the development ofchess, which has...
This is the listof top-ranked chess grandmasters, ordered by their peak Elo rating. The cut-off value is 2700 for men (players with a rating at or above...
century, no chessplayer seriously claimed to be champion of the world. The phrase was used by some chess writers to describe other playersof their day...
lists female chessplayers who have received FIDE (International Chess Federation) titles or have other significant achievements in chess. There are 42...
The IsraeliChess Championship is a chess event held every year in Israel. From 1951 to 1971, the men's and women's championships were held every two...
were high on the listof reserves (in the event of qualifiers choosing not to play). Additionally, a number ofplayers had joint Israeli and American citizenship...
significant. The list does not include online poker or online chessplayers, since they are usually separated from esports. Listof esports leagues and...
The world records in chesslisted here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...
2003) is an Iranian and French chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2800, beating the previous record...
Tournament (or in some periods Candidates Matches) is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since 1950, as the final...
American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,...
around the world. Chess is a leading sport in Israel. There are many Israeli grandmasters and Israelichessplayers have won a number of youth world championships...
International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) Alireza Firouzja is among the notable players who played...
The Times ofIsrael. 17 November 2019. "Chessplayer 'won't play for Iran' due to ban on Israeliplayers". The Jerusalem Post. "Iranian chess team faces...
The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) ofchess. The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing...
Emil Sutovsky (born 19 September 1977) is an Israelichessplayer. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1996. Sutovsky is the FIDE CEO since...
and Israelichessplayer, teacher, and artist. She holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). A former chess prodigy...
11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion. He became the...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) governs international chess competition. Each month, FIDE publishes the lists "Top 100 Players", "Top 100 Women"...
junior players from around the world, many of them online on his own chess server in 2000. Later, KasparovChess.com hosted a tournament of junior players. Sometime...
This is a listof notable Israeli Ashkenazi Jews, including both original immigrants who obtained Israeli citizenship and their Israeli descendants. Although...
chess. It was an eight-player, double round robin tournament. Viswanathan Anand won the tournament and the title of World Chess Champion. His winning score...
is a Belarusian-Israelichessplayer. A six-time World Championship candidate (1991, 1994–95, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013), he won the Chess World Cup 2009...
Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type ofchess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls...
The 44th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Chennai, India, from 28 July to...