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Chess is anabstract strategyboard game for two players which involvesno hidden information and no elements ofchance. It is played on a squaregame board called achessboard containing 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as"White" and "Black", each control sixteenpieces: oneking, onequeen, tworooks, twobishops, twoknights, and eightpawns; each type of piece has a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be "captured" (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies; the object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in adraw.
The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence ofchaturanga—also thought to be an ancestor tosimilar games likexiangqi andshogi—in seventh-centuryIndia. After its introduction inPersia, it spread to the Arab world and then to Europe. The modern rules of chess 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, with millions of players worldwide.
Organized chess arose in the 19th century. Chess competition today is governed internationally byFIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs; the International Chess Federation). The first universally recognizedWorld Chess Champion,Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in1886;Gukesh Dommaraju is the current World Champion, having won the title in2024. (Full article...)
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TheWorld Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion inchess. The current world champion isGukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous championDing Liren in the2024 World Chess Championship.
The first event recognized as a world championship was the1886 match betweenWilhelm Steinitz andJohannes Zukertort. Steinitz won, making him the first world champion. From 1886 to 1946, the champion set the terms, requiring any challenger to raise a sizable stake and defeat the champion in a match in order to become the new world champion. Following the death of reigning world championAlexander Alekhine in 1946, theInternational Chess Federation (FIDE) took over administration of the World Championship, beginning with the1948 tournament. From 1948 to 1993, FIDE organized a set of tournaments and matches to choose a new challenger for the world championship match, which was held every three years. (Full article...)
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| Rank | Player | Rating |
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| 1 |  Magnus Carlsen | 2833 |
| 2 |  Hikaru Nakamura | 2802 |
| 3 |  Gukesh Dommaraju | 2787 |
| 4 | Fabiano Caruana | 2783 |
| 5 | Arjun Erigaisi | 2777 |
| 6 |  Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 2773 |
| 7 |  Wei Yi | 2760 |
| 8 | R Praggnanandhaa | 2758 |
| 9 |  Alireza Firouzja | 2757 |
| 10 |  Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2753 |
| 11 |  Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | 2748 |
| 12 | Wesley So | 2748 |
| 13 | Levon Aronian | 2748 |
| 14 | Viswanathan Anand | 2743 |
| 15 | Leinier Domínguez Pérez | 2741 |
| 16 |  Vladimir Fedoseev | 2739 |
| 17 |  Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2739 |
| 18 |  Lê Quang Liêm | 2739 |
| 19 |  Anish Giri | 2737 |
| 20 | Ding Liren | 2731 |
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