GM Adhiban Baskaran 2536 | #228
The player's full name is Adhiban Baskaran and they confirmed to Chess.com that they preferred to be called by their first name, Adhiban. Baskaran Adhiban is an Indian grandmaster. His biggest accomplishments include being the 2009 Indian Champion and the 2008 World Under-16 Champion. He also won the...
GM Kacper Piorun
Kacper Piorun is a Polish chess grandmaster, two-time Polish champion, and five-time problem-solving world champion. Piorun won the Polish U-16 championship in 2007 and the Polish Blitz Chess Championship in 2013. He also won the Polish chess championship in 2017 and 2020. The grandmaster also won two...
GM Koneru Humpy 2535 | #230
The name Koneru is a patronymic, and the player should be referred to by her name, Humpy. GM Koneru Humpy is one of the top female chess players in the world and has been so for most of her career. The former Indian chess prodigy has spent just one month outside of the top five women in the world since...
GM Tan Zhongyi 2535 | #230
Tan Zhongyi is a Chinese grandmaster who was the women’s world chess champion from 2017 to 2018. She won the most notable title in women’s chess by defeating GM Anna Muzychuk in rapid tiebreaks, but then lost the title in her 2018 match with GM Ju Wenjun. Six years later, Tan won the 2024...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina 2534 | #234
Russian GM Aleksandra Goryachkina is an elite chess player who narrowly lost the 2020 Women’s World Chess Championship in tiebreaks. She nearly captured the most prestigious crown in women’s chess after decimating her competition (which included three former women’s world champions)...
GM Jergus Pechac
Jergus Pechac is a Slovakian chess player. Perchac became a grandmaster in 2019, breaking the record for the youngest Slovakian player to become a GM. In 2021 he made headlines by offering GM Boris Gelfand a draw after Gelfand made a mouse slip in an online event. That same year he qualified to play...