Top 20 juniors in the world (September 2012 rating) Rk Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2773 0 1992 2 Giri, Anish g NED 2730 10 1994 3 Ding, Liren g CHN 2694 13 1992 4 So, Wesley (Webster University freshman) g PHI 2667 9 1993 5 Negi, Parimarjan g […]
How would you rank them?
Below are the rankings of some of the greatest world champions, according to the author Jigar Raisinghani. Do you agree? If not, who are in your top 10 and by what order? Chess: The Greatest of the GreatsJigar Raisinghani | June 24th, 2011 Siegbert Tarrasch correctly said “Many have become chess masters, no one has […]
2 Azerbaijani in the world top 10
Two Azerbaijani chess players join top ten02.05.2011 16:21 Azerbaijan, Baku, May 2 / Trend T. Hajiyev / The International Chess Federation (FİDE) announced a new rating table. Two Azerbaijani chess players Shahriyar Mammadyarov and Vugar Gashimov entered the top ten, FİDE official website said. Besides Mammadyarov and Hashimov, Teymur Radjabov and Rauf Mammadov are among […]
Interesting rating tidbits
Artwork by Mike Magnan My sister Judit is the only woman in history to break the world top 10 in FIDE rating. Her peak ranking was #8 in the world. By accident, I came across tonight the FIDE rating archive prior to 2001 which is kept by Olimpibase. Here are the peak of the last […]
Chess websites / blogs ranking
Chess Base Alexa rank: 15,101Sites linking in: 1,838 FIDE Alexa rank: 41,245Sites linking in: 1507 Chessdom Alexa rank: 91,730Sites linking in: 293 USCF Alexa rank: 153,050Sites linking in: 667 Susan Polgar Blog Alexa rank: 198,879Sites linking in: 489 Chess Ninja Alexa rank: 267,368Sites linking in: 249 Kosteniuk Blog: Alexa Rank: 846,491Sites linking in: 68 Magnus […]
Top 30 and 20
Here are the top 30 countries in number of logins on this blog: 1. United States2. Canada3. United Kingdom4. Norway5. Germany6. Russia7. Mexico8. Venezuela9. Bulgaria10. China11. Denmark12. Greece13. United Arab Emirates14. Poland15. Netherlands16. Philippines17. France18. Spain18. Peru20. Brazil21. Japan22. Estonia23. Sweden24. Hungary25. Ukraine26. Armenia27. Iceland28. Argentina29. Vietnam30-31. Georgia30-31. Australia Here are the top 20 states: […]