The Top Chess Players in the World - Page 13

GM Viktor Erdos 2552 | #187

Hungary

Viktor Erdos is a Hungarian grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Timur Gareyev

FIDE

Timur Gareyev is an American chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Predrag Nikolic 2551 | #188

Bosnia-Herzegovina

GM Luca Moroni Jr 2551 | #188

Italy

Luca Moroni Jr is an Italian grandmaster. He won the 2024 Spell Chess Championship as part of the Chess.com Community Championships.

GM Sandro Mareco

Argentina

Sandro Mareco is an Argentinian chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

Andrew Tang is an American grandmaster who earned that title in 2017 at the age of 17. Known as "Penguin GM," he is one of the best bullet chess players in the world. Along with GM Hikaru Nakamura, Tang is one of the few players to have achieved a Chess.com bullet rating of 3500. He streams on Twitch...

GM Vladimir Akopian 2551 | #188

United States

Vladimir Akopian is an Armenian-American grandmaster. As a young player, Akopian enjoyed great success by winning the U16 World Youth Chess Championship in 1986 and the U18 World Youth Chess Championship two years later. In 1999, Akopian surprised by reaching the final of the FIDE Knockout World Championship....

GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili

Georgia

GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili is a Georgian grandmaster who qualified for the 2023 FIDE World Cup.

GM Zhu Jiner 2550 | #192

China

Zhu Jiner is a Chinese grandmaster and former girls under-14 world champion. She qualified for the Women's World Chess Championship in 2018, making it to the second round, and the same year won bronze at the Women's China Rapid Chess Championship. From June 2019 to time of publication in February 2021,...

IM Aronyak Ghosh

India

The name Ghosh is a patronymic, and the player should be referred to by his name, Aronyak.IM Aronyak Ghosh is an Indian international master who qualified for the 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship.

GM Erik van den Doel 2549 | #193

Netherlands

Bio coming soon.

GM Nikita Afanasiev 2549 | #193

Russia

Bio coming soon.

GM Viktor Matviishen

Ukraine

Bio coming soon.

GM Mateusz Bartel 2549 | #193

Poland

GM Mateusz Bartel is a Polish grandmaster and one of the top 100 players in the world (as of January 2024). Bartel often represents Poland at the Chess Olympiad and won the individual gold medal on the fourth board in 2010.