استاد بزرگ Alexey Sarana 2658 | #47
Alexey Sarana is a Russian grandmaster who has represented Serbia since April 2023. In 2018, the 18-year-old won the Russian Championship Higher League after sharing first place with GM Grigoriy Oparin and beating him on tiebreaks. Sarana shared first place at the same tournament yet again in 2019,...
استاد بزرگ Pranav Venkatesh
The name Venkatesh is his father's name and the player should be referred to by his name, Pranav. GM Pranav Venkatesh, also known as Buddy Pranav, is an Indian chess grandmaster and one of the youngest grandmasters in the world. Pranav earned the title in 2022 after securing his third norm at the 2022...
استاد بزرگ David Anton Guijarro 2656 | #48
David Anton Guijarro is a grandmaster and one of the best players in Spain. In March 2020 he crossed the 2700-rating mark, a feat that only a few players ever achieve. Anton Guijarro won the bronze medal at the 2012 U-16 European Championship and silver at the 2013 U-18 World Championship. He has won...
استاد بزرگ Jeffery Xiong 2656 | #48
American GM Jeffery Xiong has completed an impressive career as an elite junior chess player. For starters, he’s the third-youngest U.S. player to qualify for the grandmaster title. His array of accomplishments spans winning the world under-10 championship in 2010, taking the world junior championship...
استاد بزرگ Kirill Alekseenko 2656 | #48
Kirill Alekseenko is a young Russian GM who earned his wild card to the 2020 FIDE Candidates Tournament after taking third place at FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in 2019. In 2023, he changed federations to Austria. Early Life And Career Adult Career The Road to Candidates Present And Future Early...
استاد بزرگ Bogdan-Daniel Deac 2655 | #51
Bogdan-Daniel Deac is a Romanian grandmaster. He earned the title at 14 years, seven months, and 27 days of age, placing him on the list of the youngest grandmasters in history. At the 2017 Tradewise Gibraltar Tournament, the 15-year-old prodigy finished in the top 25 of the elite, 250-player open event....
استاد بزرگ Volodar Murzin
Volodar Murzin is a Russian chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup. He is from Nizhny Tagil, a town 125 km north of Yekaterinburg, Russia but now lives in Khimki, in the Moscow region. He is the 2018 European U12 champion. In December 2024, Murzin won the World Rapid Championship...
استاد بزرگ Daniil Dubov 2654 | #52
Daniil Dubov is a Russian grandmaster and world-class player. He finished tied for first place in the 2015 Aeroflot Open and broke onto the international chess scene when he won third place at the 2016 World Blitz Championship. Dubov was one of World Champion Magnus Carlsen's seconds for the 2018 World...
استاد بزرگ Ivan Saric 2654 | #52
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...
استاد بزرگ Alexander Morozevich 2653 | #54
GM Alexander Morozevich is one of only a few chess players who can claim to have been the world’s number-two player. In July 2008, his rating of 2788 put him second behind only GM Viswanathan Anand and also made Morozevich Russia’s number-one player. Twice, in 1998 and 2007, he won...
استاد بزرگ Aydin Suleymanli
GM Aydin Suleymanli is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster who was the world under-14 champion in 2019.
استاد بزرگ Ray Robson 2653 | #54
Ray Robson is an American grandmaster from Guam who had one of the country’s most successful youth careers, achieving his GM norms and 2500 rating in 2009 when he was still just 14 years old. As an adult, Robson’s tournament highlights include the 2015 U.S. Championship, where he finished...
استاد بزرگ Ernesto Inarkiev
Ernesto Inarkiev is a Russian grandmaster who won the 2016 European Individual Chess Championship. Earlier in his career, he was European U16 Champion (2001) and Russian Junior (under-20) Champion (2002). Inarkiev earned his GM title in 2002, becoming the first-ever from Kalmykia, a republic of Russia....
استاد بزرگ Sam Shankland 2651 | #56
Samuel L. “Sam” Shankland was born October 1, 1991 in Berkeley, California. He has represented the country of his birth his entire chess career, a relative rarity for American grandmasters of the past 40 years. Making IM and GM 2016 Chess Olympiad 2018 U.S. Championship Other Tournaments Present...
استاد بزرگ Eltaj Safarli 2648 | #57
GM Eltaj Safarli is an Azerbaijani grandmaster who qualified for the 2023 FIDE World Cup.
استاد بزرگ Karthikeyan Murali 2648 | #57
Bio coming soonThe name Murali is his father's name, and the player should be referred to by his name, Karthikeyan
استاد بزرگ Shant Sargsyan 2647 | #59
Shant Sargsyan is an Armenian grandmaster and the 2018 World U16 Champion. The following year, he won silver in both the World U18 Championship and the World Junior Championship. Sargsyan is ranked within the top-12 players in Armenia (12th) and juniors in the world (11th) (as of April 2021).
استاد بزرگ Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara
GM Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara is a Peruvian chess grandmaster and streamer. In 2017 he won the World Youth Championship in the under-18 division. Martinez is a regular presence in Chess.com's Titled Tuesday, usually finishing near the top of the standings, including a victory on October 6, 2020. Martinez...
استاد بزرگ Francisco Vallejo Pons 2644 | #61
Francisco Vallejo Pons (nickname “Paco”) is a five-time Spanish chess champion. He won in 2006, 2009, and the three consecutive years of 2014-16. He was also a regular at the Linares super-tournament as the host national favorite. Vallejo is a member of the 2700-rating club and remains...
استاد بزرگ David Navara 2643 | #62
David Navara may be the strongest Czech player ever. Not only is he the country’s highest rated player, but he has won nine national titles, which is more than anyone in the tournament’s 114-year history. Navara became an IM at 14 and a GM at 16. At Wijk aan Zee in 2007, he beat Magnus Carlsen...
استاد بزرگ Grigoriy Oparin 2643 | #62
Grigoriy Oparin is a Russian chess player who earned his grandmaster title in 2013. He was Russia's 2014 junior champion. Oparin nearly qualified for the 2022 Candidates Tournament by tying GM Fabiano Caruana for second place at the 2021 Riga Grand Swiss. However, he finished in third place because...
استاد بزرگ Alexander Donchenko 2642 | #64
Alexander Donchenko is a German grandmaster. His two best performances came in 2019, when he first shared second place with GM Gata Kamsky at Biel Masters, one-half point behind GM Amin Tabatabaei. A couple of months later, he went undefeated and won the Barcelona Open, ironically beating out Kamsky...
استاد بزرگ Aryan Tari 2642 | #64
GM Aryan Tari is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. As of July 2021, he is the second-highest rated player in Norway after world champion GM Magnus Carlsen. Tari, a two-time national champion, participated in the international Norway Chess tournament in 2020 and has been invited for the 2021 edition as...