Top 100 Chess Players in world Feb 2014 FIDE Ranking

[shuttler]

Chinese checker never got worldwide popularity unlike our Chaturanga(Chess).

XiangQi 象棋 is a better game (no biased)
WeiQi 围棋
All popular in East Asian countries and Vietnam
That is why you dont see many Koreans / Japanese ranking in international chess

You can earn pretty decent money if you can win majors (Weiqi Tournaments) here

List of professional Go tournaments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

International
Open Major

• Ing Cup is a tournament sponsored by Ing Chang-ki, Ing[disambiguation needed],Yomiuri Shimbun, the Nihon-Kiin and the Kansai-Kiin every four years. The winner's purse is $500,000. The current title holder (2012) is Fan Tingyu.
• LG Cup is a tournament sponsored by LG Group. The winner's purse is 250,000,000 Won/$250,000. The current title holder (2013) is Shi Yue.
• Samsung Cup is a tournament sponsored by Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance (which is a branch of the Samsung Group) and the Hanguk Kiwon. The winner's prize is 250,000,000 Won/$250,000. The current title holder (2013) is Tang Weixing.
• Chunlan Cup is a tournament sponsored by the Chunlan Group of China every two years. The winner's purse is 1,200,000 Yuan/$170,000. The current title holder (2013) is Chen Yaoye.
• Bailing Cup is a tournament sponsored by the Bailing Group of China every two years. Its full name is Bailing Aitou Cup, by which it is distinguished with a Chinese national tournament with the same name "Bailing Cup". The winner's purse is 1,800,000 CNY. The current title holder (2012) is Zhou Ruiyang.
• Meng Baihe Cup is a tournament sponsored by the HK Healthcare Foam of China. The winner's purse is 1,800,000 CNY. The 1st Meng Baihe Cup starts in 2013. Its current title holder (2013) is Mi Yuting.

 

[INDIC]

XiangQi 象棋 is a better game (no biased)
WeiQi 围棋
All popular in East Asian countries and Vietnam
That is why you dont see many Koreans / Japanese ranking in international chess

You can earn pretty decent money if you can win majors (Weiqi Tournaments) here

List of professional Go tournaments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

International
Open Major

• Ing Cup is a tournament sponsored by Ing Chang-ki, Ing[disambiguation needed],Yomiuri Shimbun, the Nihon-Kiin and the Kansai-Kiin every four years. The winner's purse is $500,000. The current title holder (2012) is Fan Tingyu.
• LG Cup is a tournament sponsored by LG Group. The winner's purse is 250,000,000 Won/$250,000. The current title holder (2013) is Shi Yue.
• Samsung Cup is a tournament sponsored by Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance (which is a branch of the Samsung Group) and the Hanguk Kiwon. The winner's prize is 250,000,000 Won/$250,000. The current title holder (2013) is Tang Weixing.
• Chunlan Cup is a tournament sponsored by the Chunlan Group of China every two years. The winner's purse is 1,200,000 Yuan/$170,000. The current title holder (2013) is Chen Yaoye.
• Bailing Cup is a tournament sponsored by the Bailing Group of China every two years. Its full name is Bailing Aitou Cup, by which it is distinguished with a Chinese national tournament with the same name "Bailing Cup". The winner's purse is 1,800,000 CNY. The current title holder (2012) is Zhou Ruiyang.
• Meng Baihe Cup is a tournament sponsored by the HK Healthcare Foam of China. The winner's purse is 1,800,000 CNY. The 1st Meng Baihe Cup starts in 2013. Its current title holder (2013) is Mi Yuting.

Seems only 5-6 countries playing that game.

 

[Jade]

Have seen his games.. He is too good. If some one wants to see the game, go for game of century between Donald Byrne and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial championship...

I came across this game in 1999....

Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov were the best.. Magnus is having form of his lifetime.. Lets see whether he can be as great as the ones mentioned previously...

Yes, Calson is too early in his career to be judged among the bests.

Fischer and Kasparov are certainly some of the greats the Chess has seen. but I consider Capablanca to be the best in the Chess history followed by Lasker and Steinitz

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

No thanks! All trollig material!
There is no such "50 cents army" as you claimed on pdf (it is a banned term anyway)!
There are alotl cheerleading indians - not worthy of even 1 cent!
My last post on this thread until there is something interesting!

Say than a thousand times more You see me as a cheerleader and I see you as a cheerleader >>> better to leave this!

 

[drunken-monke]

Yes, Calson is too early in his career to be judged among the bests.

Fischer and Kasparov are certainly some of the greats the Chess has seen. but I consider Capablanca to be the best in the Chess history followed by Lasker and Steinitz

Offcource those were the greatest in the game... Capablanca the cuban was really good but lost to Alekhine due to over confidence.. I came to know about him in year 2000 when we were supposed master Ruy Lopez and its variation (since it is most preferred opening), my teacher (chemisrty) told me about a secret counter called marshal Attack.. Marshal attack is so complex that even great of games like anand and kasparov avoided it.. Capablanca successfully defended against marshal in his game.. I was pretty impressed with his 10X8 board.. In my ranking he would come third next to Kasparov..

Though I feel Fischer was the best.. He is not reckoned because of his behavior..

 

[Jade]

Offcource those were the greatest in the game... Capablanca the cuban was really good but lost to Alekhine due to over confidence.. I came to know about him in year 2000 when we were supposed master Ruy Lopez and its variation (since it is most preferred opening), my teacher (chemisrty) told me about a secret counter called marshal Attack.. Marshal attack is so complex that even great of games like anand and kasparov avoided it.. Capablanca successfully defended against marshal in his game.. I was pretty impressed with his 10X8 board.. In my ranking he would come third next to Kasparov..

Though I feel Fischer was the best.. He is not reckoned because of his behavior..

And you forgot Lasker, he was World Chess Champion for 27 years...the longest ever

 

[drunken-monke]

And you forgot Lasker, he was World Chess Champion for 27 years...the longest ever

Out of that, he did not had to defend his title for 9 years... He had asked stakes so high that even good players could not challenge him.. He is one of the top ten players, may be ranking ahead of Tal at 6/7th place.. But his play style did not influence me, neither many, apart from Soviet players though.. he was Notorious..
Also his style of play was more of a Psychological one. Which I feels is less innovative unlike Capablanca, or Fischer..
Gary Kasparov is second in the rank because his ability to memorize and analyzed the games which was latter mastered by Anand as well..

In current scenario though, I feels Magnus will go far ahead, due to being very young..

 

[bolo]

Seems only 5-6 countries playing that game.

because it's too complicated for non East Asians.

 

[INDIC]

because it's too complicated for non East Asians.

That's not an excuse, its seems it failed to become popular across the world unlike our chess.

 

[bolo]

That's not an excuse, its seems it failed to become popular across the world unlike our chess.

no excuse, it's the truth.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Dear members, if next time any troll calls Indians as low IQ, just send him link of this thread.

I have opened this thread to counter Racist, insulting posts against us.
.

I seriously do not understand, why we Indians have to prove to of all people on this planet the Chinese that we have high IQ.

Why Chinese members go with high IQ parading, can be better understood by reading upon Nanking atrocities, Han Chavunism, tradtional attitudes towards non - Hans, 50 cent and so on.

 

[shuttler]

Seems only 5-6 countries playing that game.

Elitists and talents are very rare human species
The film "a beautiful mind" which described the nobel prize winner the mathematician John Nash has some passing shots of some Princeton students playing WeiQi on campus, not international chess. That is how high the status of WeiQi is viewed upon at a glimpse through a popular award winning movie
Koreans and Japanese are intelligent people They dont participate much in international chess but WeiQi

You dont look at individual performance at international chess as the watershed marking for your intellectual competence as a whole
Look at some other fields like WeiQi, Chinese Chess, Math Olympiads, PISA tests, University rankings, R and D research expenditure and papers published in top journals,Space Explorations, Weaponry developments, international sports, illeracy rates etc etc have a wholesome reality check on yourselves, cheerleaders!