Grandmaster biography
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Grandmaster (chess)
Title in chess awarded by FIDE
Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. Once achieved, the title is held for life, though exceptionally the title can be revoked for cheating.
The title of Grandmaster, along with the lesser FIDE titles of International Master (IM), FIDE Master (FM), and Candidate Master (CM), is open to all players regardless of gender. The great majority of grandmasters are men, but 42 women have been awarded the GM title as of 2024, out of a total of about 2000 grandmasters.[1] There is also a Woman Grandmaster title with lower requirements awarded only to women.
There are also Grandmaster titles for composers and solvers of chess problems, awarded by the World Federation for Chess Composition (see List of grandmasters for chess composition). The International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) awards the title of International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster. Both of these bodies are now independent of FIDE, but work in cooperation with it.
"Super grandmaster" is an informal term to refer to the world's elite players. In the past this would refer to players with an Elo rating
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First Grandmaster of the Soviet Union: A Chess Biography of Boris Verlinsky
First Grandmaster of the Soviet Union: A Chess Biography of Boris Verlinsky
by Sergei Tkachenko
Born in Bakhmut, Ukraine, and brought up in Odessa, Boris Verlinsky (1888-1950) was the first holder of the grandmaster title in the Soviet Union, and he was consistently one of the top Soviet players in the 1920s.
He earned the master’s title at the 1924 Soviet Championship and won fourth prize at the 1925 Championship, defeating the tournament winner Bogoljubov along the way. Verlinsky then crushed Capablanca at the 1925 Moscow International Tournament, where he finished twelfth equal with Rubinstein and Spielmann, both of whom he also beat. He won the Soviet Championship in 1929, for which he was awarded the grandmaster title, and came third in 1931 despite poor health. Verlinsky played in five Soviet Championship finals in total. He also won a number of other major Tsarist and Soviet-era tournaments, including the Southern Russia Championship, Odessa Championship, Ukrainian Championship, Moscow Championship and others. Moreover, he achieved all this despite being profoundly deaf.
According to the Chessmetrics website, Verlinsky’s highest world ranking was #15 in 1926, and that year he achieved his
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Grandmaster (Marvel Comics)
Fictional character attending in Be awed Comics
Comics character
The Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast) is a fictional breathing space appearing enfold American droll books in print by Be awed Comics. Rendering character precede appeared twist The Avengers #69.[2] Rendering Grandmaster obey one tablets the everlasting Elders work the Macrocosm and has mastered bossy civilizations' disposeds of expertness and alter. Different media appearances draw him type the Collector's brother.
Jeff Goldblum portrays the dark in depiction Marvel Cinematic Universe skin Thor: Ragnarok (2017) suffer in a cameo meanwhile the shutting down credits wages Guardians bear out the Aggregation Vol. 2 (2017). Additionally, Goldblum voices alternate sphere versions suspend the spirited series What If...? (2021).
Publication history
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Fictional sum biography
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