Verdens bedste skakspillere - Side 5

GM Loek van Wely 2628 | #83

Loek van Wely is a Dutch grandmaster and currently the fifth-best player in the Netherlands (as of March 2021). Van Wely is an eight-time Dutch champion, winning six consecutive times from 2000 to 2005, and again in 2014 and 2017. Other successes include winning the 2005 European Team Championship while...

GM Konstantin Landa

Bio coming soon

GM Ivan Cheparinov 2627 | #86

Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian grandmaster who has represented Georgia since 2018. He is a four-time Bulgarian champion. In 2018, he reached both his peak rating (2718) and peak world ranking (32) for his career (as of February 2021). Other notable performances came when he won the junior...

GM Aryan Chopra

Bio coming soonThe name Chopra is a patronymic, and the player should be referred to by his name, Aryan.

GM Bassem Amin 2625 | #87

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 Aram Hakobyan 2625 | #87

Aram Hakobyan is an Armenian grandmaster and the 2012 World U12 Champion. He also won the Armenian Youth Championship in four different age groups (U10, U12, U14, and U18) and became vice-champion of the 2014 U14 European Chess Championship. Hakobyan is ranked in the top-15 players in Armenia (13th)...

GM Haik Martirosyan

Haik Martirosyan is an Armenian grandmaster. The European under-12 champion in 2011 and under-14 champion in 2013, Martirosyan was the under-16 world youth champion in 2016 and Armenian chess champion in 2018.  A strong blitz player, Martirosyan participated in the 2020 Speed Chess Championship...

GM Wang Yue 2623 | #89

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 Abhimanyu Puranik

GM Abhimanyu Puranik is an Indian grandmaster who qualified for the 2023 FIDE World Cup. The player's full name is Abhimanyu Puranik and they confirmed to Chess.com that they preferred to be called by their first name, Abhimanyu.

GM Luke McShane 2622 | #90

Luke McShane is an English grandmaster and finance professional. He is often referred to as the "world's strongest amateur player" because he plays at elite chess tournaments although he has a full-time job. McShane has beaten some of the best players in the world, including GMs Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir...

GM Andrei Volokitin 2622 | #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 Aleksey Grebnev

GM Li Chao 2621 | #92

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 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 Vladimir Malakhov 2620 | #93

Vladimir Malakhov is a Russian grandmaster. He won the 2009 European Rapid Chess Championship and won gold with Russia at the 2009 World Team Chess Championship. Also that year, he made it to the semifinals of the Chess World Cup. As a youth player, Malakhov won the Under-12 Russian Championship in...

GM Evgeniy Najer 2619 | #94

Evgeniy Najer is a Russian grandmaster who became the European champion in 2015. In August 2017, he achieved his peak rating of 2707 and peak world ranking of 39. He’s had several open tournament wins, perhaps most notably back-to-back victories at the World Open in Philadelphia in 2008 and 2009....

GM Gabriel Sargissian 2618 | #95

Gabriel Sargissian is an Armenian grandmaster who won three Olympic gold medals with his national team.  As a young player, Sargissian won the Under-14 World Youth Chess Championship in 1996. He won bronze at the European Junior Chess Championship in 1998 and the individual European championship...

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...

GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko 2616 | #96

Yuriy Kryvoruchko is a Ukrainian grandmaster and the 2013 Ukrainian Chess Champion. That victory came after he defeated GM and former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov on tiebreaks. The same year, Kryvoruchko made it to the third round of the World Cup after a surprising win against GM Michael Adams...

GM Alexandr Predke 2616 | #96

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 Leon Luke Mendonca

GM Leon Luke Mendonca is an Indian chess grandmaster. He earned the title in 2021. In 2024, Leon won the Tata Steel Challengers Tournament. The name Mendonca is a patronymic, Luke is his father's name, and the player should be referred to by his name, Leon.

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 Ma Qun 2614 | #98

Bio coming soon.

GM Hou Yifan 2613 | #99

Despite being in only her mid-20s, Hou Yifan is widely considered to be the second-strongest female chess player in history (behind Judit Polgar). Among her top accomplishments are the four Women’s World Chess Championships Hou won before declining to participate in the event. She’s also...

GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan 2613 | #99

Samvel Ter-Sahakyan is an Armenian grandmaster and the 2020 national champion.  He won the Under-10 and the Under-18 European Youth Chess Championships in 2003 and 2009 respectively as well as the World U-18 Chess Championship in 2011. Ter-Sahakyan won the PRO Chess League with the Armenian Eagles...