The Top Chess Players in the World - Page 10

GM Elham Amar

2576 | #153

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GM Wen Yang

2575 | #154

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GM Sina Movahed

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GM Dimitri Reinderman

Dimitri Reinderman is a Dutch Grandmaster.

GM Manuel Petrosyan

Manuel Petrosyan is an Armenian grandmaster and the 2022 national champion.  Petrosyan won the Under-18 World Youth Chess Championship in 2016. He scored 8.5/11 at the World Junior Chess Championship in 2017, tieing for first with Aryan Tari and  Aravindh Chitambaram, and finished second on...

GM Arkadij Naiditsch

2574 | #155

Arkadij Naiditsch is a German-Azerbaijani grandmaster and a former top-20 player in the world. He won the Dortmund Sparkassen 2005 tournament ahead of GMs like Veselin Topalov, Peter Svidler, and Vladimir Kramnik. In 2007, Naiditsch won the German Chess Championship while playing for the country. He...

GM Jon Ludvig Hammer

2574 | #155

Jon Ludvig Hammer is a Norwegian grandmaster, streamer, commentator, and content creator. He has won the Norwegian Championship multiple times and was GM Magnus Carlsen's second in the 2013 and 2014 World Championship matches. His peak rating of 2705 was achieved in 2016. Chess Career Twitch Channel Chess.com...

GM Pawel Teclaf

2573 | #157

Pawel Teclaf is a Polish international master who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Antonios Pavlidis

2573 | #157

IM Vaclav Finek

GM Diptayan Ghosh

The name Ghosh is a patronymic, and the player should be referred to by his name, Diptayan.

GM Yusnel Bacallao Alonso

Yusnel Bacallao Alonso is a Cuban Grandmaster.

GM Li Di

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GM Bobby Cheng

Bobby Cheng is an Australian chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis

2570 | #159

Bio coming soon.

GM Baadur Jobava

2570 | #159

Baadur Jobava is a Georgian grandmaster. He has won many tournaments, including the Dubai Open, Aeroflot Open, Tbilisi Cup, Bronstein Memorial, and Abu Dhabi Masters. His peak rating was 2734 in September 2012 when he was the number-19 player in the world. Jobava has been the Georgian Champion three...

GM Narayanan S L

The player's full name is Narayanan S.L. In this name, S stands for his father's name Sunilduth, L stands for his mother's name Lyna and they confirmed to Chess.com that they preferred to be called by their full name, Narayanan S.L.Narayanan S.L. is an Indian grandmaster who won the Asian U-16 title...

GM Vaibhav Suri 2569 | #161

The name Suri is a patronymic, and the player should be referred to by his name, Vaibhav.

GM Alexander Moiseenko

Alexander Moiseenko is a Ukrainian Grandmaster and the 2013 European champion.

GM John M Burke

GM John M. Burke was the 2020 U.S. Junior Chess Champion and a participant in the 2021 U.S. Chess Championship. He became a grandmaster in 2018 and was the youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2600 FIDE.

GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly

2568 | #162

The name Shekhar is his father's name, Ganguly is a patronymic, and the player should be referred to by his name, Surya.GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly from India is a participant in the 2022 Tata Steel Challengers tournament.

GM Titas Stremavicius

GM Ivan Sokolov

Ivan Sokolov is a Bosnian-born Dutch grandmaster. He coached the 2022 Chess Olympiad gold-winning Uzbekistan team.

GM Karthik Venkataraman

2566 | #163

GM Karthik Venkataraman is an Indian grandmaster who qualified for the 2023 FIDE World Cup.

GM Lei Tingjie

2566 | #163

Lei Tingjie is a Chinese grandmaster who won a national championship in 2017 ahead of the women’s world champion at the time, GM Tan Zhongyi. The same year, Lei scored 8/9 points on the fourth board for the Chinese women’s team in the World Team Chess Championship, where they earned silver....