The Top Chess Players in the World - Page 9

GM Constantin Lupulescu 2585 | #138

Romania

Constantin Lupulescu is a Romanian grandmaster and five-time national champion. He has played in multiple FIDE World Cup events and tied for first (fifth on tiebreak) at the 2013 European Individual Championship. His best open tournament performance likely came at the 2019 Reykjavik Open, where he led...

GM Tuan Minh Le 2585 | #138

Vietnam

Grandmaster Tuan Minh Le is a Vietnamese chess player who officially earned his GM title in 2022 after long being considered one of the game's strongest international masters. He presented Chess.com's 2020 video series on the Nimzowitsch Variation of the Sicilian Defense (1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6) as well...

GM Arik Braun

Germany

Arik Braun is a German grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Aleksey Dreev 2584 | #140

Russia

Aleksey Dreev is a Russian grandmaster and is currently among the top-50 players in his country (as of February 2021). Dreev was a successful young player, winning the U16 World Youth Chess Championship both in 1983 and 1984. He was also the European junior champion in 1988, a year before he became...

GM Jingyao Tin

Singapore

Jingyao Tin is a chess international master from Singapore who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Axel Bachmann 2582 | #141

Paraguay

GM Axel Bachmann is a Paraguayan grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM David Paravyan 2582 | #141

FIDE

David Paravyan is a Russian grandmaster and national U-14 champion (2012). His greatest success came in 2020 at the Gibraltar Chess Festival, where he shared first place in the Swiss part of the tournament and defeated GM Andrey Esipenko and GM Wang Hao in the playoff. In 2021, he qualified for the...

GM Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis 2582 | #141

Greece

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GM Valery Kazakouski 2582 | #141

Lithuania

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GM Mustafa Yilmaz

Türkiye

Mustafa Yılmaz is a Turkish chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 2581 | #145

Romania

Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu is a Romanian grandmaster who played for Germany from 2014 until 2023 when he returned to Romania. He won the Romanian Chess Championship in 1996, won the European Individual Chess Championship in 2005, and beat FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov the following year in a four-game...

GM Mahammad Muradli

Azerbaijan

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GM Elham Amar 2581 | #145

Norway

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GM Zhou Jianchao 2581 | #145

United States

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GM Luis Paulo Supi 2581 | #145

Brazil

Luis Paulo Supi is a Brazilian grandmaster, chess coach, and streamer. Supi is the second-highest-rated player in Brazil (as of April 2021) as well of one of the most popular chess streamers in his country. As an international master, Supi won the U-20 Panamerican Championship in 2016 and the 2017 Magistral...

GM Bartosz Socko

Poland

Bartosz Socko is a Polish Grandmaster.

GM Max Warmerdam

Netherlands

Max Warmerdam is a grandmaster from the Netherlands, earning the title in 2021. He seconded GM Anish Giri in the 2021 Candidates Tournament.

GM Ahmed Adly 2580 | #149

Egypt

Ahmed Adly is an Egyptian grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Dariusz Swiercz 2579 | #150

United States

GM Dariusz Swiercz is a Polish-born American chess player who began playing for the United States in 2018. He learned chess at age three and became a grandmaster in 2009 at the age of just 14, making him one of the 30 youngest in history to attain the title and the youngest ever from Poland. His excellent...

GM Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera

Cuba

Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera is a Cuban grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Zhu Jiner 2578 | #151

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,...

GM Jesper Sondergaard Thybo 2578 | #151

Denmark

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GM Ivan Sokolov

Netherlands

Ivan Sokolov is a Bosnian-born Dutch grandmaster. He coached the 2022 Chess Olympiad gold-winning Uzbekistan team.

GM Aleksandr Shimanov

Russia

Aleksandr Shimanov is a Russian Grandmaster.

GM Manuel Petrosyan

Armenia

Manuel Petrosyan is an Armenian grandmaster and the 2022 national champion. Petrosyan won the Under-18 World Youth Chess Championship in 2016. He scored 8.5/11 at the World Junior Chess Championship in 2017, tieing for first with Aryan Tari and Aravindh Chitambaram, and finished second on...