Caruana (2777.1) moves up to World Rapid #2 after his success in Zagreb! 📸 Lennart Ootes / Grand Chess Tour 2700chess.com/rapid

🇮🇳 Vaishali enters the World Women Top10 after her three consecutive wins (against 2653, 2633, 2535 players) at #BielChess Masters. Her sibling Praggnanandhaa is also in the World Top10, but in the Open section. 2700chess.com/women 📸 @bielchessfestival.ch

DECISION: After the Blitz, it is now clear, who will qualify for the final phase of the 2024 #BielChess GMT-Triathlons! GMT-Masters: Lê Quang Liêm 🇻🇳, Martirosyan 🇦🇲, Praggnanandhaa 🇮🇳 & Mishra 🇺🇸 GMT-Challengers*: Salem Saleh 🇦🇪, Donchenko 🇩🇪 & Vaishali 🇮🇳

🇹🇷 13 year-old Erdogmus Yagiz Kaan (2594.4) enters the Junior Top 20 after three consecutive wins at the Turkish Super League. His current TPR is 2726. 📸 Stefan64 / Wikipedia 2700chess.com/juniors

Champions!🥳🔥🎉♟️🏆 #USJuniors #USSeniors #STLChessClub #chess

🇰🇿 Alua Nurman (b. 2007) earned 58.4 rating points at the Biel Open and moved up to World #12 among Junior Girls U20. She earned her final WGM norm and her second IM norm as well. 📸 Biel Chess Festival 2700chess.com/girls

在西安大师巅峰赛和绍兴国际女子公开赛间隙拍的一组写真——大唐不夜城 回眸千年前的盛世长安

Tan Zhongyi wins the Belt and Road tournament with 7/9, becoming the World Women #3. This is currently her highest ranking and rating. The 2025 Women's World Championship match between Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi promises to be unpredictable. 📸 via Liang Ziming

The Top 20 after the FIDE World Rapid Team Championship: Carlsen maintains his 50+ rating points lead over the rest of the field. In this tournament, he scored 6.5/8 with a TPR of 2895.📸 PhotoChess / International Chess Federation 2700chess.com/rapid

The Top 20 after the FIDE World Blitz Team Championship: Carlsen at one point was close to 2900, but after scoring 8/8, he "only" managed 1.5/3 in his last three games. (Nakamura has an inactive blitz rating of 2874) 2700chess.com/blitz

Rex Sinquefield to Alireza Firouzja: "Since you've done so well here I want you to know if you decide to move here, you're welcome!" #GrandChessTour

The latest live ratings reveal a new record low again since 2011. At present, only 31 chess players are part of the 2700 club. This occurred after Grischuk's loss to Esipenko in Round 8 of the Russian Superfinal. 2700chess.com

Firouzja (2766.4 +15.4) moves up to World #5 and strengthens his lead in the Sinquefield Cup with 5/7 and a current TPR of 2913. His head-to-head score against Ding Liren in classical chess is now +4 -0 =5 2700chess.com/games/firouzja… 📸 Lennart Ootes / Grand Chess Tour

The Top 20 after the Sinquefield Cup, the 60th Akiba Rubinstein Festival, and Niemann's matches: Giri, Aronian, and Maghsoodloo are out, while Niemann, Vachier-Lagrave, and Keymer are in. 2700chess.com

A busy day at the #ChessOlympiad 2700chess.com

I could be mistaken but this might be the youngest-ever top 10 in the live ratings! (2700chess)

🇮🇳 Erigaisi (2791.3) is now less than 10 rating points away from the 2800 club after his powerful start with 6/6 at the #ChessOlympiad. Here is his win today with Black against Sjugirov (2644): 2700chess.com/games/sjugirov… 📸Michal Walusza / International Chess Federation

We have updated our highest historical live ratings through our meticulous research featured in the attached banner, revealing that Arjun Erigaisi is now ranked #20 among all players and #2 in India. As a key reference in our study, we used Fischer's highest live rating of

Gukesh (2780.2) defeats Wei Yi, moving to World #5, potentially his highest FIDE ranking ever. His score is 5.5/6 with a TPR of 3054. This win keeps Team India dominating the #ChessOlympiad, with seven wins in seven matches. Here's the game 2700chess.com/games/gukesh-w… 📸 Michał

What do these four great players have in common with the current World #4, #5, #6, and #7? All these young stars are not older than 21, originally come from Asia and are in incredible form. The first three are delivering phenomenal 3000+ TPR performances at the ongoing