India now boasts four active chess players in the top 10 live ratings for the first time, led by D Gukesh at No. 4 and ...

Chess is a game of strategy, skill, and deep thinking. The world’s best players compete at the highest level, constantly improving their tactics. As of April 2025, Magnus Carlsen remains the top ...

Mr. Short, who is English, said that when he is in Germany, which has almost 100 grandmasters ... as professional chess players and passionate fans are to the nuances of ratings.

Women have broken into the list of top 100 players only a few times, and they account for just 2 percent of grandmasters, according to research by David Smerdon, a chess grandmaster as well as an ...

Magnus Carlsen, the undisputed world number one for over a decade, believes chess ratings today are somewhat ... Reflecting on the younger generation of players, Carlsen conveyed his respect ...

At the Weissenhaus Resort, the world’s top players will come together, among them Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Dommaraju Gukesh, the newly crowned world chess champion, who is 18 years old.