FIDE - World Chess Federation

World Chess Federation

FIDE - Federation Internationale des Echecs

Chess originated in India, where its early form in the 6th century was “chaturanga”, which translates as "four divisions of the military" – infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots, represented respectively by pawn, knight, bishop, and rook. In Persia, around 600AD, the name became “shatranj” and the rules were developed further. Shatranj was taken up by the Muslim world after the Islamic conquest of Persia.

The first modern chess tournament was held in London in 1851. Steinitz lost his crown in 1894 to a much younger German mathematician Emanuel Lasker, who held the title for 27 years, the longest tenure of any World Champion. The current World Champion is Viswanathan Anand from India. In 1927, the Women's World Chess Championship was established; the first champion being Czech-English master Vera Menchik.

FIDE, Founded in Paris on 20 July 1924, the World Chess Federation (Federation Internationale des Echecs, known as FIDE from its French acronym) was recognized by the International Olympic Committee as an International Sports Federation in 1999. With 170 member federations, FIDE is among the biggest sports organizations in the world, very proud of over forty official championships for youngsters, men, women and seniors.

Chess is an affiliate member, or fully recognized by, National Olympic Committees in 115 countries, and chess as a sport is recognized in 105 countries.

List of Winners:

Year     Dates                            Host                             Winner                         Runner-up       

2000     1–13 Sep          Shenyang, China                     Viswanathan Anand     Evgeny Bareev

2002     9–22 Sep          Hyderabad, India                     Viswanathan Anand     Rustam Kasimdzhanov

2005     27 Nov – 17 Dec Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia         Levon Aronian              Ruslan Ponomariov      

2007     24 Nov – 16 Dec Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia         Gata Kamsky               Alexei Shirov    

2009     20 Nov – 14 Dec Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia         Boris Gelfand               Ruslan Ponomariov      

2011     26 Aug – 21 Sep Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia         Peter Svidler                Alexander Grischuk       

2013     10 Aug – 4 Sep Tromsø, Norway                       Vladimir Kramnik           Dmitry Andreikin          

2015     TBA      Baku, Azerbaijan    

      

Country rank by average rating of top 10 players:

            Country            Avg.     GMs     IMs       Total Titled

1          Russia              2744     226       503       2239

2          Ukraine             2695     83         197       508

3          China                2677     34         27         131

4          France              2666     47         103       371

5          Hungary            2655     52         112       430

6          Armenia            2653     36         23         104

7          USA                 2652     84         126       623

8          India                2650     35         78         239

9          Netherlands       2645     31         80         302

10         Germany           2630     82         236       1227

India (Active players):

#          Name                                     Title     Fed      Rating  G        B-Year

 1         Anand, Viswanathan              g          IND      2785      0         1969

 2         Harikrishna, P.                         g          IND      2726      0         1986

 3         Sasikiran, Krishnan                  g          IND      2669      9         1981

 4         Negi, Parimarjan                      g          IND      2643      9         1993

 5         Adhiban, B.                             g          IND      2624      9         1992

 6         Gupta, Abhijeet                        g          IND      2619    18         1989

 6         Ganguly, Surya Shekhar           g         IND      2619      9         1983

 8         Koneru, Humpy                        g          IND      2613     0         1987

 9         Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi              g          IND      2606     9         1994

 10        Sandipan, Chanda                   g          IND      2594     0          1983