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Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess).
Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to generically as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. White moves first, followed by Black; then moves alternate. 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 at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, 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. (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. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former world champion Bobby Fischer. She was the youngest player ever to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, ranking No. 55 in the January 1989 rating list, at the age of 12.
Polgár is the only woman to have been a serious candidate for the World Chess Championship, in which she participated in 2005; she had previously participated in large, 100-player-plus knockout tournaments for the world championship. She is also the only woman to have surpassed 2700 Elo, reaching a peak world ranking of No. 8 in 2004 and peak rating of 2735 in 2005. She is the only woman to be ranked in the top ten of all chess players, first reaching that ranking in 1996. She was the No. 1 rated woman in the world from January 1989 until her retirement on 13 August 2014. (Full article...)
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Rank | Player | Rating |
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1 | Magnus Carlsen | 2831 |
2 | Fabiano Caruana | 2805 |
3 | Hikaru Nakamura | 2802 |
4 | Arjun Erigaisi | 2801 |
5 | Gukesh Dommaraju | 2783 |
6 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 2777 |
7 | Alireza Firouzja | 2763 |
8 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2755 |
9 | Wei Yi | 2753 |
10 | Viswanathan Anand | 2750 |
11 | Levon Aronian | 2747 |
12 | Wesley So | 2747 |
13 | Leinier Dominguez | 2741 |
14 | Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2740 |
15 | Lê Quang Liêm | 2739 |
16 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | 2738 |
17 | R Praggnanandhaa | 2737 |
18 | Hans Niemann | 2734 |
19 | Anish Giri | 2733 |
20 | Vincent Keymer | 2733 |
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