Introduction
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 typically 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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George Hatfeild Dingley Gossip (December 6, 1841 – May 11, 1907) was an American-English chess master and writer. He competed in chess tournaments between 1870 and 1895, playing against most of the world's leading players, but with only modest success. The writer G. H. Diggle calls him "the King of Wooden Spoonists" because he usually finished last in strong tournaments.
Gossip was also a noted writer. His treatise The Chess-Player's Manual—A Complete Guide to Chess, a 900-page tome published in 1874 after several years of work, was harshly received by the critics, largely because he had included a number of informal skittles games that he had (atypically) won against stronger players. As a result, Gossip developed a lifelong enmity toward chess critics, whom he often attacked ferociously in his books. However, his 1879 book Theory of the Chess Openings was well received. Wilhelm Steinitz, the first World Chess Champion, wrote that the 1888 edition of The Chess-Player's Manual was one of the best available books on the game. Thanks in part to a 122-page appendix by S. Lipschütz, it became one of the standard opening works of the time. (Full article...)
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Rank | Player | Rating |
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1 | Magnus Carlsen | 2831 |
2 | Hikaru Nakamura | 2802 |
3 | Arjun Erigaisi | 2797 |
4 | Fabiano Caruana | 2796 |
5 | Gukesh D | 2794 |
6 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 2783 |
7 | Alireza Firouzja | 2767 |
8 | Wei Yi | 2763 |
9 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2755 |
10 | Wesley So | 2751 |
11 | Viswanathan Anand | 2751 |
12 | Praggnanandhaa R | 2746 |
13 | Leinier Dominguez | 2741 |
14 | Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2740 |
15 | Quang Liem Le | 2739 |
16 | Levon Aronian | 2738 |
17 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2735 |
18 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | 2733 |
19 | Hans Niemann | 2733 |
20 | Anish Giri | 2728 |
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