The Top Chess Players in the World - Page 5

GM Ivan Cheparinov 2627 | #86

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...

GM Velimir Ivic

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GM Pranesh M

The player should be referred to by the given name, Pranesh.

GM Haik Martirosyan

Haik Martirosyan is an Armenian grandmaster. The European under-12 champion in 2011 and under-14 champion in 2013, Martirosyan was the under-16 world youth champion in 2016 and Armenian chess champion in 2018.  A strong blitz player, Martirosyan participated in the 2020 Speed Chess Championship...

GM Aleksandar Indjic 2626 | #87

Aleksandar Indjic is a Serbian grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Wang Yue 2625 | #88

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...

GM Dmitrij Kollars

GM Dmitrij Kollars is a German chess grandmaster who earned that title in 2017 at the age of 17 years old. In 2021 he tied for first place at the Sunway Sitges Open tournament. Kollars is a regular in Chess.com events, including Titled Tuesday which he won on January 3, 2023. He also reached Division...

GM Bassem Amin 2622 | #89

Bassem Amin is an Egyptian grandmaster and six-time African Chess Champion. He also has three Arab Chess Championships, multiple African and Arab youth titles, and three bronze medals in the World Youth/Junior Chess Championships. Amin is the highest-rated player not only in Egypt but in Africa as well....

GM Abhimanyu Puranik

GM Abhimanyu Puranik is an Indian grandmaster who qualified for the 2023 FIDE World Cup. The player's full name is Abhimanyu Puranik and they confirmed to Chess.com that they preferred to be called by their first name, Abhimanyu.

GM Li Chao 2621 | #90

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...

GM 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...

GM Aleksey Grebnev

GM Vladimir Malakhov 2620 | #91

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...

GM Evgeniy Najer 2619 | #92

Evgeniy Najer is a Russian grandmaster who became the European champion in 2015. In August 2017, he achieved his peak rating of 2707 and peak world ranking of 39. He’s had several open tournament wins, perhaps most notably back-to-back victories at the World Open in Philadelphia in 2008 and 2009....

GM Xu Xiangyu

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GM Anton Demchenko 2619 | #92

Anton Demchenko is a Slovenian grandmaster who was born in Russia. He completed his federation transfer in July 2023. He won the European Individual Chess Championship in 2021. 

GM Aram Hakobyan 2619 | #92

Aram Hakobyan is an Armenian grandmaster and the 2012 World U12 Champion. He also won the Armenian Youth Championship in four different age groups (U10, U12, U14, and U18) and became vice-champion of the 2014 U14 European Chess Championship. Hakobyan is ranked in the top-15 players in Armenia (13th)...

GM 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...

GM 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...

GM Alexei Shirov 2616 | #96

Alexei Shirov is a Latvian grandmaster who plays for Spain. In 1994 he was the number-two player in the world. Shirov defeated GM Vladimir Kramnik in a match in 1998 to become the challenger to GM Garry Kasparov for the classical world championship, but this match never took place. Shirov has participated...

GM Jaime Santos Latasa

GM Jaime Santos Latasa is a Spanish grandmaster who earned the title in 2018. His peak in the world rankings as of February 2024 is 59th, set in September 2022.

GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko 2616 | #96

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...

GM Alexandr Predke 2616 | #96

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...

GM Maxime Lagarde 2616 | #96

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...

GM Pouya Idani 2615 | #100

Pouya Idani as a grandmaster from Iran who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.