• This is a list of Israeli chess title-holders (active players only), as of April 2016. Boris Alterman Boris Avrukh Tal Baron Sergey Erenburg Alexander...
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  • This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. Jacob Aagaard (Denmark...
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    Jewish players and theoreticians have long been involved in the game of chess and have significantly contributed to the development of chess, which has...
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  • This is the list of top-ranked chess grandmasters, ordered by their peak Elo rating. The cut-off value is 2700 for men (players with a rating at or above...
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    century, no chess player seriously claimed to be champion of the world. The phrase was used by some chess writers to describe other players of their day...
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    The Israeli Chess Championship is a chess event held every year in Israel. From 1951 to 1971, the men's and women's championships were held every two...
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  • lists female chess players who have received FIDE (International Chess Federation) titles or have other significant achievements in chess. There are 42...
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  • significant. The list does not include online poker or online chess players, since they are usually separated from esports. List of esports leagues and...
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    were high on the list of reserves (in the event of qualifiers choosing not to play). Additionally, a number of players had joint Israeli and American citizenship...
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  • The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...
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  • Tournament (or in some periods Candidates Matches) is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since 1950, as the final...
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    Alireza Firouzja (category French chess players)
    2003) is an Iranian and French chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2800, beating the previous record...
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    playwrights List of Israeli Arab Muslims List of Dutch Israelis List of Israeli Druze List of notable Mizrahi Jews and Sephardi Jews in Israel List of notable...
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    around the world. Chess is a leading sport in Israel. There are many Israeli grandmasters and Israeli chess players have won a number of youth world championships...
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    American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,...
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  • The Times of Israel. 17 November 2019. "Chess player 'won't play for Iran' due to ban on Israeli players". The Jerusalem Post. "Iranian chess team faces...
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    Sofia Polgar (category Hungarian female chess players)
    and Israeli chess player, teacher, and artist. She holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). A former chess prodigy...
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    Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls...
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    International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) Alireza Firouzja is among the notable players who played...
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  • The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing...
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    Emil Sutovsky (category Israeli chess players)
    Emil Sutovsky (born 19 September 1977) is an Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1996. Sutovsky is the FIDE CEO since...
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    PIRC Profile of the Chinese players Comparison of top chess players throughout history Ye, Jiangchuan benoni.de/schach/elo World Chess Federation or...
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    11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion. He became the...
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    Boris Gelfand (category Israeli chess players)
    is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. A six-time World Championship candidate (1991, 1994–95, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013), he won the Chess World Cup 2009...
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  • The International Chess Federation (FIDE) governs international chess competition. Each month, FIDE publishes the lists "Top 100 Players", "Top 100 Women"...
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    Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to practice...
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    Judit Polgár (category Maccabiah Games chess players)
    chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15...
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    chess. It was an eight-player, double round robin tournament. Viswanathan Anand won the tournament and the title of World Chess Champion. His winning score...
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  • junior players from around the world, many of them online on his own chess server in 2000. Later, KasparovChess.com hosted a tournament of junior players. Sometime...
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  • This is a list of notable Israeli Ashkenazi Jews, including both original immigrants who obtained Israeli citizenship and their Israeli descendants. Although...
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