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Chess is not only a sport played by professionals, but it is also a symbol of a hostile relationship between two of the most famous comic...

Full Name:  Yasser Seirawan   Peak FIDE Rating : 2658 (July 2000)   Active Since:  1978 (professional debut)   Player Description: Yasser...

Centuries before Vishwanathan Anand came onto the scene and transformed chess in India as it is now, it is said that Chess originated in...

Full Name: Levon Grigori Aronian Peak FIDE Rating: 2830 (March 2014) Active Since: Mid-1990s (officially gaining recognition after 2000)...

Full Name:  Wesley Barbossa So  Peak FIDE Rating:  2822 (March 2017) - 5th Highest rated player in the history.  Active Since: 2003...

Full Name: Gata Kamsky Peak FIDE Rating: 2763 achieved in 2013 Active Since: Gata Kamsky has been active in Chess since 1986. He took a...

Full Name:  Boris Abramovich Gelfand Peak FIDE Rating: 2777 achieved in 2013 Federation: Israel Active Since:  1973, and is an active...

Full Name: Anton Vladimirovich Smirnov Peak FIDE Rating: 2604 (January 2020) Active Since: 2009 Federation: Australia Anton Smirnov, born...

Full Name: Fabiano Luigi Caruana Peak FIDE Rating: 2844 (October 2014) Active Since: 2000 Federation: United States (formerly represented...

One of India's prominent chess grandmasters, Pentala Harikrishna, was born in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, on May 10, 1986. Harikrishna...

The United Kingdom in the early 20th century witnessed some landmark feminist movements. In 1927, just a year before the British...

Full Name: Peak FIDE Rating: 2761 (September 2013) Active Since: 1981(approx) Federation: England Player Description: In the quiet town...

Full Name: Vincent Keymer Peak FIDE Rating: 2738 (May 2024) Active Since: 2015 Federation: Germany Player Description: In a world...

Full Name:  Murray Graham Chandler Peak FIDE Rating:  2560 (January 1988) Active Since:  1974 (became Grandmaster in 1983) Federation:...

Full Name:  Bobby Cheng  Peak FIDE Rating:  2596 Active Since:  2005  Federation:  Australia  Player Description: From across the ditch...

Full Name:  Javokhir Sindarov Peak FIDE Rating:  2697 (May 2024) Active Since:  2018 (became GM in 2018 at age 12) Federation:...

Full Name:  Sachini D. Ranasinghe Peak FIDE Rating:  1913, which Sachini achieved in 2012 Active Since: Sachini started playing in 1998...

Full Name:  G M Harshana Thilakarathne Peak FIDE Rating: 2446 achieved in 2018 Federation:  Sri Lanka Player Description: One of the...

Full Name:  Nodirbek Abdusattorov Peak FIDE Rating:  2783 (October 2024) Active Since:  2008 Federation : Uzbekistan Player Description:...

Full name: Temur Kuybokarov (formerly known as Temur Igonin) Peak FIDE Rating: 2600 (December 2023) Highest Ranking: #408 Active Since:...