List of World Chess Champions

World Chess Champions are players who have won a match or tournament for the World Championship at chess. Both men and women can become champion, but no woman has ever been a challenger for the title. There is, however, a separate championship for women. There are also separate championships for specific age groups.
Before 1886, there was no official championship held, but some players were thought to be pre-eminent. From 1948 on, the World Chess Federation FIDE held the championships. Between 1993 and 2006 there were two world champion titles, the FIDE one and the classical one.
The 2013 World Championship match took place between Anand and Magnus Carlsen (challenger) in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, where Anand grew up. Usually, world championships had been played on neutral ground. Fischer played Spassky in Iceland; Alekhine played Capablanca in Buenos Aires. The Soviets always played in Moscow. However, sponsorship is needed for these matches, and the decision to accept the Chennai bid was taken by FIDE. The Challenger was victorious winning 3 games and achieving the necessary 6.5 points to win the title at the end of game 10. Magnus Carlsen, 22 and from Norway is therefore the current World Chess Champion.

Standard Top 100 Players April 2016

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B Year
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2851	0	1990
2	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2801	0	1975
3	Caruana, Fabiano	g	USA	2795	14	1992
4	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2790	14	1994
5	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2788	1	1990
6	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2787	14	1987
7	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2784	14	1982
8	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2779	14	1990
9	Ding, Liren	g	CHN	2777	0	1992
10	So, Wesley	g	USA	2773	0	1993

Sergey Karjakin is the new Challenger!

Sergey Karjakin and Fabiano Caruana went into the final round of the Candidates tied for first, with Caruana needing to win with black to qualify. That was not to be – Sergey defeated his opponent in a Sicilian Rauzer in 42 moves. With this win he became the Challenger for the World Championship in November against Magnus Carlsen
 

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