استاد بزرگ Ivan Cheparinov 2627 | #84
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...
استاد بزرگ Wang Yue 2625 | #85
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...
استاد بزرگ Abhimanyu Mishra
GM Abhimanyu "Abhi" Mishra is an American chess prodigy. In July 2021, Mishra earned his third norm required to become a grandmaster. With his FIDE rating already above 2500, he became the youngest grandmaster in history at the age of 12 years, four months, and 25 days. Early Milestones Youngest...
استاد بزرگ Jonas Buhl Bjerre 2623 | #87
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.
استاد بزرگ 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...
استاد بزرگ Vasyl Ivanchuk 2621 | #88
Vasyl Ivanchuk is a Ukrainian grandmaster and world-class player. He was the number-two player in the world on three separate occasions (1991, 1992 and 2007) and made it to the 2002 FIDE World Championship Finals. He has won many international tournaments, including the Tal Memorial, Linares, Biel,...
استاد بزرگ Li Chao 2621 | #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...
استاد بزرگ Andrei Volokitin 2621 | #88
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...
استاد بزرگ Maxime Lagarde 2621 | #88
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...
استاد بزرگ Loek van Wely 2621 | #88
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...
استاد بزرگ 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...
استاد بزرگ Alexandr Predke 2619 | #94
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...
استاد بزرگ Mikhail Al Antipov
GM Mikhail Antipov is an America chess grandmaster who won the 2026 Saint Louis Masters.
استاد بزرگ 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...
استاد بزرگ Aditya Mittal 2617 | #96
The name Mittal is a patronymic, and the player should be referred to by his name, Aditya.
استاد بزرگ Aleksandar Indjic 2616 | #97
Aleksandar Indjic is a Serbian grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.
استاد بزرگ Rasmus Svane 2616 | #97
Rasmus Svane is a German chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.
استاد بزرگ 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...
استاد بزرگ Yuriy Kryvoruchko 2614 | #99
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...
استاد بزرگ Samvel Ter-Sahakyan 2613 | #100
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...
استاد بزرگ Georg Meier 2612 | #101
Georg Meier is a German-born grandmaster who now represents Uruguay. He learned chess at the age of three. He won the German Under-16 Championship in 2003 and became a GM in 2007. In 2011, he won the European Team Championship with the German team, scoring 5.5/9 on board two. Meier reached his...
استاد بزرگ Vasif Durarbayli
GM Vasif Durarbayli is a grandmaster from Azerbaijan who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup. He is a two-time Azerbaijani Chess Champion (2021, 2023).