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Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess).
Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. White moves first, followed by Black. The game is won by checkmating the opponent's king, i.e. threatening it with inescapable capture. There are several ways a game can end in a draw.
The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. After its introduction in Persia, it spread to the Arab world and then to Europe. The rules of chess as they are known today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games and is played by millions of people worldwide. (Full article...)
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Anna Olehivna Muzychuk (Ukrainian: Анн́а Оле́гівна Музичу́к; Slovene: Ana Muzičuk; born 28 February 1990) is a Ukrainian chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been ranked as high as No. 197 in the world, and No. 2 among women. Muzychuk is a three-time world champion in fast chess, having won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship once in 2014 and the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship twice in 2014 and 2016. In classical chess, she was the 2017 Women's World Championship runner-up.
Muzychuk grew up in a chess family where her younger sister Mariya (the 2015 Women's World Champion in classical chess) also became a Grandmaster. Her parents work as chess coaches, having taught her the game from when she was two years old. She soon established herself as a chess prodigy, first winning the European Youth Chess Championships at age six in the under-8 girls' category and later winning the under-10, under-12, and under-14 girls' divisions as well. She also won the World Youth Championship in the under-16 girls' category and the World Junior Championship for under-20 girls. She earned the International Master (IM) title at age 17 and the Grandmaster title at age 21. (Full article...)General images
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Rank | Player | Rating |
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1 | Magnus Carlsen | 2832 |
2 | Hikaru Nakamura | 2802 |
3 | Fabiano Caruana | 2796 |
4 | Erigaisi Arjun | 2778 |
5 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2770 |
6 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 2769 |
7 | Gukesh D | 2763 |
8 | Praggnanandhaa R | 2757 |
9 | Wesley So | 2757 |
10 | Wei Yi | 2755 |
11 | Viswanathan Anand | 2751 |
12 | Leinier Dominguez | 2748 |
13 | Ding Liren | 2745 |
14 | Anish Giri | 2745 |
15 | Alireza Firouzja | 2744 |
16 | Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2733 |
17 | Quang Liem Le | 2731 |
18 | Levon Aronian | 2729 |
19 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | 2726 |
20 | Parham Maghsoodloo | 2725 |
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