The Top Chess Players in the World - Page 9

GM Daniil Yuffa

Spain

Daniil Aleksandrovich Yuffa is a Russian-Spanish chess grandmaster

GM Zhou Jianchao 2584 | #138

United States

GM Zhou Jianchao is a Chinese-American grandmaster. From 2025-26, he played 158 official games without losing a single one.

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 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...

GM Nijat Abasov 2583 | #140

Azerbaijan

Nijat Abasov is an Azerbaijani grandmaster and the 2017 Azerbaijani Chess Champion. That year he won the Baku Open tournament, and another notable tournament win came at the 2016 Zurich Christmas Open. Abasov became a GM at the age of 15 and entered the list of the top-100 players in the world in November...

GM Mustafa Yilmaz

Türkiye

Mustafa Yılmaz is a Turkish chess grandmaster 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 Diego Flores

Argentina

Bio coming soon.

GM Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis 2582 | #141

Greece

Bio coming soon.

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 Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 2581 | #144

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 Elham Amar 2581 | #144

Norway

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GM Luis Paulo Supi 2581 | #144

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 Ahmed Adly 2580 | #147

Egypt

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

GM Sergey A Fedorchuk 2580 | #147

Ukraine

Bio coming soon.

GM Dariusz Swiercz 2579 | #149

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 Jesper Sondergaard Thybo 2579 | #149

Denmark

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GM Jon Ludvig Hammer 2579 | #149

Norway

Jon Ludvig Hammer is a Norwegian grandmaster, streamer, commentator, and content creator. He has won the Norwegian Championship multiple times and was GM Magnus Carlsen's second in the 2013 and 2014 World Championship matches. His peak rating of 2705 was achieved in 2016. Chess Career Twitch Channel Chess.com...

GM Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera

Cuba

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

GM Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli

Spain

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GM Zhu Jiner 2578 | #152

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,...

The Top Chess Players in the World - Page 9

GM Daniil Yuffa

GM Zhou Jianchao 2584 | #138

GM Aleksey Dreev 2584 | #138

GM Manuel Petrosyan

GM Nijat Abasov 2583 | #140

GM Mustafa Yilmaz

GM Axel Bachmann 2582 | #141

GM Diego Flores

GM Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis 2582 | #141

GM David Paravyan 2582 | #141

GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 2581 | #144

GM Elham Amar 2581 | #144

GM Luis Paulo Supi 2581 | #144

GM Bartosz Socko

GM Ahmed Adly 2580 | #147

GM Sergey A Fedorchuk 2580 | #147

GM Dariusz Swiercz 2579 | #149

GM Jesper Sondergaard Thybo 2579 | #149

GM Jon Ludvig Hammer 2579 | #149

GM Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera

GM Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli

GM Zhu Jiner 2578 | #152

GM Vadim Milov

GM Aleksandr Shimanov

GM Ivan Sokolov