The Top Chess Players in the World - Page 24

GM Santiago Avila Pavas 2502 | #299

Colombia

Bio coming soon.

GM Shreyas Royal

England

GM Shreyas Royal is an English grandmaster. He was invited to the 2023 London Chess Classic, where he finished seventh out of 10 despite entering the tournament with the field's lowest rating by nearly 200 points. The tournament was his second GM norm, leaving him one norm and some rating points away...

GM Hedinn Steingrimsson

Iceland

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GM Brewington Hardaway 2501 | #300

United States

GM-elect Brewington Hardaway is an American chess prodigy. He earned the international master title in November 2023 and qualified for the grandmaster title just a year later, making him the second African-American to earn it after GM Maurice Ashley.

IM Zhandos Agmanov 2501 | #300

Kazakhstan

GM Andrey Sumets

Ukraine

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GM Christopher Noe

Germany

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IM Filip Magold

Romania

GM Jan Bernasek 2501 | #300

Czech Republic

GM Jean-Marc Degraeve 2500 | #303

France

GM Jakhongir Vakhidov 2500 | #303

Uzbekistan

Jakhongir Vakhidov is a grandmaster from Uzbekistan and part of the Uzbek Olympic team. He was the joint winner of the Hastings International Chess Congress in 2013/14 and 2015/16. In the second round of the 2021 FIDE World Cup in Sochi, Russia he eliminated GM Lenier Dominguez. Vakhidov won a gold...

GM Aldiyar Ansat

Kazakhstan

GM Milos Perunovic 2500 | #303

Serbia

Bio coming soon.

GM Evgeny Alekseev

Israel

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GM Pier Luigi Basso

Italy

GM Praveen Balakrishnan

United States

GM Praveen Balakrishnan is an American chess grandmaster at the University of Chicago.

GM Roven Vogel 2499 | #306

Germany

IM Roven Vogel is a German international master who won Tata Steel Qualifiers in 2020 to earn a spot in the 2022 Tata Steel Challengers tournament (after none was held in 2021). Vogel was also the under-16 world youth champion in 2015.