Die Top-Skaakspelers in die Wêreld - Bladsy 5

GM Ruslan Ponomariov 2632 | #83

Ukrainian GM Ruslan Ponomariov is a former FIDE world champion and one of the greatest chess prodigies in history. He earned the world title at the age of 18 and in 1997 became the youngest person at the time to become a grandmaster—only 17 days after turning 14 years old. The same year, he won...

GM Robert Hovhannisyan

Robert Hovhannisyan is an Armenian grandmaster and the 2011 national champion.     In 2008 and 2009, Hovhannisyan won the national Under-18 championship. He won the national championship in 2011 and was a runner-up three more times, in 2012, 2014, and 2016.  Hovhannisyan won the...

GM Konstantin Landa

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GM Bassem Amin 2628 | #84

Bassem Amin is an Egyptian grandmaster and six-time African Chess Champion. He also has three Arab Chess Championships, multiple African and Arab youth titles, and three bronze medals in the World Youth/Junior Chess Championships. Amin is the highest-rated player not only in Egypt but in Africa as well....

GM Alexander Grischuk 2628 | #84

Alexander Grischuk is a Russian super grandmaster who is consistently among the world’s best players. While he’s an elite professional chess player, Grischuk is well-known for being one of the top blitz players. He’s a three-time World Blitz Champion, making him only one of two players...

GM Jonas Buhl Bjerre 2626 | #86

GM Jonas Bjerre is a Danish chess grandmaster. He began 2024 as the #8 rated junior player in the world, and the second-highest rated in Europe behind only GM Vincent Keymer.

GM Etienne Bacrot 2626 | #86

Etienne Bacrot is a French grandmaster. He won his first French championship at 16 years of age, which is the youngest in history. That was the first of five consecutive national titles, and Bacrot has accumulated eight in total—more than any other player. He made a name for himself in chess as...

GM Aleksey Grebnev

GM Li Chao 2625 | #88

Li Chao is a Chinese grandmaster. He won the 2013 Asian Chess Championship and has had several top finishes in high-level tournaments around the world, such as his undefeated win at the Reykjavik Open in 2014. Li spent a considerable amount of time in 2015 and 2016 ranked in the world’s top-15...

GM Mikhail Al Antipov

GM Mikhail Antipov is an America chess grandmaster who won the 2026 Saint Louis Masters.

GM Ivan Saric 2624 | #89

Ivan Saric was born on August 17, 1990, in Split, Croatia. He is currently the highest-rated Croatian grandmaster (as of February 2021) and has been on Croatia's Olympic team since 2010. He reached his peak FIDE rating of 2703 in 2019. Saric won the Under-18 European Championship in 2007, a year before...

GM Xu Xiangyu

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GM Andrei Volokitin 2623 | #90

Andrei Volokitin is a Ukrainian grandmaster and two-time national champion. He won silver and bronze medals at the World Chess Championship in the under-12 and under-14 categories, and was part of the gold-medal winning Ukrainian national youth team at the Under-16 Chess Olympiad in 1999. Two years...

GM Wang Yue 2623 | #90

Wang Yue is a Chinese grandmaster who holds three national championships: 2005, 2013, and 2024. He’s the first Chinese player to make the top 10 of the FIDE world rankings and the first to achieve a rating of 2700. For five years, Wang was the highest-ever rated player in Chinese chess history. Early...

GM Michael Adams 2622 | #92

Michael “Mickey” Adams is a British chess grandmaster, one of the United Kingdom's and England’s greatest-ever players, with nine national championships. Per his website, he has finished first or tied for first in at least 60 events in his chess career. Early Life And Career Early...

GM Denis Lazavik

Denis Lazavik is a grandmaster from Belarus and a participant in the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship. Born in 2006, he earned his IM title in 2021 and his GM title in 2022. He is rated 2560 FIDE at standard time controls as of November 2023, while his peak Chess.com blitz rating as of the same...

GM Rasmus Svane 2620 | #93

Rasmus Svane is a German chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Vladimir Onischuk 2617 | #94

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GM Mahammad Muradli

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GM Alexandr Predke 2616 | #95

Alexandr Predke is a Russian grandmaster who won the U16 Russian Youth Chess Championship in 2010. He placed third in the 2014 Russian Junior Championship (U20), and then in 2017, finished second in the Lev Polugaevsky Memorial tournament. In September 2019, he made his first appearance in the world’s...

GM Jaime Santos Latasa

GM Jaime Santos Latasa is a Spanish grandmaster who earned the title in 2018. His peak in the world rankings as of February 2024 is 59th, set in September 2022.

GM Marc'Andria Maurizzi

Marc'Andria Maurizzi was born on May 16, 2007, in Bastia, France. In 2019, he won the French junior championship for players under 12 years old. In July of that year, he secured the IM title at age 12 years and two months. He scored his first two GM norms in Catalonia. In December 2020, Maurizzi placed...

GM Maxime Lagarde 2615 | #96

Maxime Lagarde is a French grandmaster and one of the top players in France. As of February 2021, he's the third strongest player in his country, behind only GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Etienne Bacrot. Lagarde earned his international master title in 2011 and became a grandmaster in 2013. He won...

GM Pouya Idani 2614 | #97

Pouya Idani as a grandmaster from Iran who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Peter Heine Nielsen

GM Peter Heine Nielsen is a Danish grandmaster living in Lithuania who is the longtime lead second for World Champion Magnus Carlsen. Prior to working with Carlsen, Nielsen was a second for the previous world champion, GM Viswanathan Anand. After earning the GM title in 1994, Nielsen became five-time...