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  2. Comparison of top chess players throughout history - Wikipedia

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    BBC award-winning journalists, from their book Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (HarperCollins, 2004): Fischer, some will maintain, was the outstanding player in chess history, though there are powerful advocates too for Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, and Kasparov. Many chess players ...

  3. List of chess players by peak FIDE rating - Wikipedia

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    1987. Highest-ranked Japanese-born player, formerly highest-ranked American player (2011–2015), current FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Champion (since 2022) China. Ding Liren. 2816. 2018-11. 1992. Highest-ranked Chinese player (since 2015), current World Chess Champion (since 2023) 13.

  4. Garry Kasparov - Wikipedia

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    from Kasparov's interview for Echo of Moscow, 13 September 2011. Garry Kimovich Kasparov [a] (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein [b] on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, [2] achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being ...

  5. Hypermodernism (chess) - Wikipedia

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    Hypermodernism (chess) The Queen's Indian Defence, controlling the central e4-square with pieces, not pawns, is a hypermodern opening for Black. Hypermodernism is a school of chess that emerged after World War I. It featured challenges to the chess ideas of central European masters, including Wilhelm Steinitz 's approach to the centre and the ...

  6. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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    Three Fairy Chess pieces are used, the titular Duchess (princess), the Fortress (empress), and the Wizard, capable of teleporting friendly pieces. Forchess: A four-player variant using the standard board and two sets of standard pieces. Fortress chess: A four-player variant played in Russia in 18th and 19th centuries.

  7. Chess strategy - Wikipedia

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    Chess strategy is the aspect of chess play concerned with evaluation of chess positions and setting goals and long-term plans for future play. While evaluating a position strategically, a player must take into account such factors as the relative value of the pieces on the board, pawn structure, king safety, position of pieces, and control of key squares and groups of squares (e.g. diagonals ...

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