List of chess grandmasters
The list of chess grandmasters leads to all chess players who have received the title of Grandmaster (GM). He is next to the world title, the highest title in chess and is awarded by the World Chess Federation FIDE according to certain criteria for life. Bearers of the honorary Grandmaster title and the woman grandmaster title are not included in the list.
The list is current as at 5 April 2014. At this time there were 1448 Grand Master, among them were 31 women. More 127 grandmasters are now dead, including a woman.
27 selected by FIDE players received in 1950 as first the title. The mark of 100 grandmasters was reached in 1967, ie 17 years after the beginning of the title award; . till the 200th title holder, it took only 12 years, until 1979, in 2004 the number reached 1000 Grand Master; up to the mark of 1100 took only two years until 2006. Overall, therefore, an inflationary development of the title holder can realize their causes, however, are unclear. In 2009 alone, 67 new Grand Master was appointed. 1969 is the only year in which no new Grand Master was appointed.
Nona Gaprindashvili 1978 was the first woman to win the overall grandmaster title. The title at the time of acquisition Sergei Karjakin is youngest grandmaster, who scored his last required Title Standard 12 years and 7 months. The oldest player, who was awarded the GM title was Jacques Lousy which belonged to the age of 85 years in 1950 to 27 players, where the FIDE in recognition of past services gave the title. With 212 players, most grandmasters are for the Russian Federation is active, for Germany are 79 players eligible to start (as of December 2013).
- Name: Lists the name of the Grand Master, as it is written in German transcription.
- Born: Denotes the birth of the Grand Master; with players in their birth nor the Julian calendar was in use, the Gregorian date is also used.
- Died: Denotes the date of death of the Grand Master.
- Nominated: Denotes the year in which the player was awarded the Grandmaster title.
- Country: Denotes the country for the Association of the Grand Master is eligible to play. In the late grandmasters the country is displayed, for which the Grand Master had been eligible, as he was awarded the GM title.
- M / w: Specifies the gender of the Grand Master.
Note: The list is sortable: the list by clicking on a column header sorts by that column, double clicking reverses the sorting order. By clicking on two columns consecutively can achieve any desired combination.