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Titles

Abbreviation	Title	Classical	Rapid	Blitz	Norms
GM	Grandmaster	2500			3
IM	International Master	2400			3
FM	FIDE Master	2300			-
CM	Candidate Master	2200			-
NM	National Master	-			-
WGM	Woman Grandmaster	2300			3
WIM	Woman International Master	2200			3
WFM	Woman FIDE Master	2100			-
WCM	Woman Candidate Master	2000			-
WNM	Woman National Master	-			-
AGM	Arena Grandmaster		2000	2000	-
AIM	Arena International Master		1700	1700	-
AFM	Arena FIDE Master		1400	1400	-
ACM	Arena Candidate Master		1100	1100	-

Competitions

Dream World Championship Format

No	Name	Variant	Format	Time Class	Time Control	Rounds	Total Players	Players
01	World Blitz Chess Cup	Chess	Cup	Blitz	3+2	8	256	1
02	World Blitz Chess Swiss	Chess	Swiss	Blitz	3+2	13	256	1
03	World Rapid Chess Cup	Chess	Cup	Rapid	15+10	8	256	1
04	World Rapid Chess Swiss	Chess	Swiss	Rapid	15+10	13	256	1
05	World Classical Chess Cup	Chess	Cup	Classical	120+30	8	256	1
06	World Classical Chess Swiss	Chess	Swiss	Classical	120+30	13	256	1
07	World Fisher Chess Cup	Chess960	Cup	Classical	120+30	8	256	1
08	World Fisher Chess Swiss	Chess960	Swiss	Classical	120+30	13	256	1
	World Champion		Double Round-Robin	Classical	120+30	14	8	=8

Olympiad

Edition	Year	Host City	Host Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1	1927	London	United Kingdom	Hungary	Denmark	England
2	1928	The Hague	Netherlands	Hungary	United States	Poland
3	1930
4	1931
5	1933
6	1935
7	1937
8	1939
9	1950
10	1952
11	1954
12	1956
13	1958
14	1960
15	1962
16	1964
17	1966
18	1968
19	1970
20	1972
21	1974
22	1976
23	1978
24	1980
25	1982
26	1984
27	1986
28	1988
29	1990
30	1992
31	1994
32	1996
33	1998
34	2000			Russia	Germany	Ukraine
35	2002			Russia	Hungary	Armenia
36	2004			Ukraine	Russia	Armenia
37	2006			Armenia	China	United States
38	2008			Armenia	Israel	United States
39	2010			Ukraine	Russia	Israel
40	2012			Armenia	Russia	Ukraine
41	2014			China	Hungary	India
42	2016			United States	Ukraine	Russia
43	2018			China	United States	Russia
44	2022	Chennai	India	Uzbekistan	Armenia	India
45	2024	Budapest	Hungary	India	United States	Uzbekistan

Players

2800 Club

No	Continent	Country	Name	Birth	Live	Peak	Year	World Champion	World Rapid	World Blitz	World Fisher	World Cup
1	Europe	Norway	Magnus Carlsen	1990-11-30	2889.2	2882	2014	5	5	7	0	1
2	Europe	Russia	Garry Kasparov	1963-04-13	2856.7	2851	1999	6	0	0	0	0
3	America	United States	Fabiano Caruana	1992-07-30	2851.3	2844	2014	0	0	0	0	0
4	America	United States	Levon Aronian	1982-10-06	2835.5	2830	2014	0	0	1	0	2
5	America	United States	Wesley So	1993-10-09	2824.5	2822	2017	0	0	0	1	0
6	Asia	Azerbaijan	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	1985-04-12	2826.2	2820	2018	0	1	0	0	0
7	Europe	France	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	1990-10-21	2819.3	2819	2016	0	0	1	0	0
8	Asia	India	Viswanathan Anand	1969-12-11	2820.7	2817	2011	5	1	0	0	0
9	Europe	Russia	Vladimir Kramnik	1975-06-25	2817.8	2817	2016	3	0	0	0	1
10	Europe	Bulgaria	Veselin Topalov	1975-03-15	2826.5	2816	2015	1	0	0	0	0
11	America	United States	Hikaru Nakamura	1987-12-09	2819.0	2816	2015	0	0	0	1	0
12	Asia	China	Ding Liren	1992-10-24	2816.9	2816	2018	1	0	0	0	0
13	Europe	Russia	Alexander Grischuk	1983-10-31	2813.6	2810	2014	0	0	3	0	0
14	Europe	France	Alireza Firouzja	2003-06-18	2804.0	2804	2021	0	0	0	0	0
15	Europe	Netherlands	Anish Giri	1994-06-28	2802.8	2798	2015	0	0	0	0	0

• Magnus Carlsen are the most dominant one, with 18 world titles in his name (blitz and rapid are new events starting from 2012).
• Fabiano Caruana and Alireza Firouzja are the youngest one to cross the 2800 mark but does not win any world titles.
• 12/14 cross the 2800 mark in 2010s. Garry Kasparov was the first one to do it in 1990s. Alireza Firouzja are currently the last (in 2020s).
• United States has the most 2800 Super GM (4), followed by Russia (3) and France (2).
• In a podcast, Fabiano Caruana claimed his generations are the strongest generation (GenY / Millennial). He was right. 9/14 players are generation Y.

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