Highest Chess Quotient Of All Time

This honour goes to Sergey Karjakin (1990-), born in the Ukraine, who has a CQ of 199. Runner up is Magnus Carlsen with a CQ of 188.

The Chess Quotient (CQ) is based on the Intelligence Quotient (IQ). The CQ is calculated from the Elo rating divided by the player's age (16 years or younger). The best information about Chess Quotients is found on Paul Muljadi's site (here).

Links:
Muljadi.org CQ Page
Chess Quotient (CQ) of Youngest Grandmasters in History by Paul Muljadi

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Youngest Female Chess Grandmaster Of All Time

This honour goes to Hou Yifan (1994-) from China.

Hou Yifan obtained her chess Grandmaster title at the age of 14 years, 6 months.

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Youngest Chess Grandmaster Of All Time

This honour goes to Sergey Karjakin (1990-) born in the Ukraine.

Karjakin obtained his chess Grandmaster title at the age of 12 years, 7 months, and 0 days.

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Women's World Chess Champions

The list of Women's World Chess Champions:

• Vera Menchik - 1927–1944
• Lyudmila Rudenko - 1950–1953
• Elisabeth Bykova - 1953–1956
• Olga Rubtsova - 1956–1958
• Elisabeth Bykova - 1958–1962
• Nona Gaprindashvili - 1962–1978
• Maya Chiburdanidze - 1978–1991
• Xie Jun - 1991–1996
• Susan Polgar - 1996–1999
• Xie Jun - 1999–2001
• Zhu Chen - 2001–2004
• Antoaneta Stefanova - 2004–2006
• Xu Yuhua - 2006–2008
• Alexandra Kosteniuk - 2008–present

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Most Accurate Chess Player Of All Time

Robert James 'Bobby' Fischer

The most accurate chess player of all time, based upon analysis by Charles Sullivan at truechess.com, is Robert James 'Bobby' Fischer.

Accuracy of chess moves was measured using computer analysis with comparison being made against the average chess Grandmaster. A summary of Sullivan's analysis can be found here.

For Fischer's best playing year 1968, he made no blunders, scored 86.54% in games, and his chess moves were judged to be 40.45% better than the average Grandmaster.


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Undisputed World Chess Champions

The list of undisputed World Chess Champions:

• Wilhelm Steinitz - 1886–1894
• Emanuel Lasker - 1894–1921
• José Raúl Capablanca - 1921–1927
• Alexander Alekhine - 1927–1935 & 1937–1946
• Max Euwe - 1935–1937
• Mikhail Botvinnik - 1948–1957 & 1958–1960 & 1961–1963
• Vasily Smyslov - 1957–1958
• Mikhail Tal - 1960–1961
• Tigran Petrosian - 1963–1969
• Boris Spassky - 1969–1972
• Robert J. Fischer - 1972–1975
• Anatoly Karpov - 1975–1985
• Garry Kasparov - 1985–1993
• Vladimir Kramnik - 2006–2007
• Viswanathan Anand - 2007–present

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Most Popular Chess Website (Alexa)

The most popular chess website according to Alexa (The Web Information Company) is Chess.com.

Chess.com has an Alexa Rank of 5,036.

An honorable mention goes to Chessbase.com who have the second highest Alexa Rank of 14,868.

Results accessed 9th August 2009 and will be subject to change.

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Highest Ever FIDE Elo Rating

Garry Kasparov has the record for the highest ever FIDE Elo rating of 2851.

Kasparov had his rating in both the July 1999 and January 2000 FIDE Elo rating lists.


Garry Kasparov in
Cologne, Germany
(18 March 2007)
[Elke Wetzig (Elya)]

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