List of chess grandmasters
This is a list of chess grandmasters. The title of Grandmaster (GM) is awarded to world-class chess players by the sport's governing body FIDE. It is the highest title a chess player can attain and is awarded for life, although FIDE regulations allow for the revocation of titles for cheating or fraud. FIDE has awarded a total of 1918 grandmaster titles, not counting the three GM titles that have been revoked.
Grandmasters
FIDE has issued ID codes since 1998; some older grandmasters were never assigned an ID. For living grandmasters, FIDE ID is a link to the FIDE Chess Profile page. The FIDE Chess Profile page can usually be used to verify the year the GM title was awarded and the player's birth year. FIDE IDs for deceased grandmasters are retained in this table to aid matching with older FIDE records such as the FIDE rating lists.
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Revoked titles
FIDE titles including the grandmaster title are valid for life, but FIDE regulations allow a title to be revoked for "use of a FIDE title or rating to subvert the ethical principles of the title or rating system" or if a player is found to have violated the anti-cheating regulations in a tournament on which the title application was based.[5]
Revoked GM Title Awards Name FIDE ID Born Died Year Revoked Federation Notes Crişan, Alexandru 1201271 1962-07-31 1993 2001 
Date of title revocation is unclear[note 58] Nigalidze, Gaioz 13603078 1989-04-24 2014 2015 
FIDE Ethics Commission Case n. 7/2015[8]; GM title application Rausis, Igors 11600098 1961-04-07 1992 2019 
FIDE Ethics Commission Case n. 8/2019[9]
Notes
- References have three different dates of birth for Abbasifar, the one shown (12 Sep 1972) is from his GM title application. Di Felice lists 11 Aug 1972; his IM title application gives 11 Sep 1982.
- Abdusattorov's date of birth is from ChessBase News: Friedel, Frederic (29 October 2017), Abdusattorov second youngest GM ever, ChessBase.
- Di Felice and IM application give Aravindh's birth date as 11 Sep 1999, GM application has 15 Sep 1999
- Baghadasaryan's date of birth is from Di Felice.
- Di Felice confirms 1 January 1987 as Batsiashvili's date of birth.
- Bjerre's 26 June 2004 date of birth is from Di Felice.
- Bogdanovich's date of birth is from Di Felice.
- Di Felice gives Chernobay's date of birth as 11 Jun 1989.
- Di Felice lists 27 January 1991 as Chirilă's date of birth.
- Cori's birth date is given as 30 July 1995 by Di Felice and on his IM title application. His GM title application gives 2 July.
- De La Paz Perdomo's GM title application lists 1973 as his birth year, but Di Felice and other sources give 1975.
- The GM title application for Eliseev gives his birthdate as 29 July 1996, but Di Felice has 29 August.
- Escobar Forero's GM title application lists his birth date as 10 March 1977, but Di Felice has 11 March.
- Di Felice gives Geller's birth date as 2 March 1925.
- Gomez Esteban's GM title application lists his birthday as 5 February 1958, but Di Felice and other sources have 15 February.
- Di Felice gives 2008 as the title year for González Vidal, but the FIDE Profile page and the FIDE Golden Book have 2009.
- Gordievsky's birth date is from Di Felice.
- Hambleton's birth date is from Di Felice.
- Harutjunyan's GM title application seems to show a date of birth of 5 July 1981, but Di Felice and other sources have 7 May.
- Di Felice lists Mikhail Ivanov's birth date as 20 Jan 1969, but old FIDE rating lists have 10 Jan. The FIDE Golden Book confirms that Ivanov was awarded the GM title in 1993, but it does not list a birth date.
- Di Felice and Gaige give Kirov's date of birth as 9 Sep 1945, but some sources such as Chess24 – Nino Kirov (1945-2008) (in Bulgarian) give 11 Sep 1945
- Kristjansson date of death from: Brynjólfur Þór Gudmundsson (1 March 2018), Stefán Kristjánsson látinn (in Icelandic), Ríkisútvarpið
- Di Felice gives Le Roux's date of birth as 1 May 1982.
- Lei's WGM title application lists her birthday as 13 March 1997, but Di Felice and her GM title application have 3 March.
- Lenič's GM application lists his birthday as 13 August 1988, but Di Felice gives 13 May.
- Di Felice gives Liberzon's title year as 1966, but both Gaige and The FIDE Golden Book have 1965.
- Loprarizangeneh's birthday is from Di Felice.
- Mahjoob Zardast's GM title application lists his birthday as 28 March 1980, but Di Felice has 20 March.
- Di Felice and Gaige give Milić's date of death as 27 May 1986, but some online sources have 28 May.
- Di Felice gives Oll's title year as 1992, but FIDE Golden Book and other sources have 1990.
- The Ortiz Suárez GM title application lists his birthday as 30 March 1980, but Di Felice has 2 April 1985 and the Ortiz Suarez FIDE Chess Profile also lists his birth year as 1985.
- Di Felice gives Pietzsch's title year as 1966, but both Gaige and the FIDE Golden Book give 1965.
- Di Felice gives Podochenko's birthday as 2 July 1988, but his GM title application has 7 Feb 1988.
- In Memoriam – Julian Radulski
- Riff's GM title application lists his birthday as 29 April 1981, but De Felice has 22 April as does Jean-Noël Riff[fr].
- Romanenko's GM title application gives his birthday as 4 June 1985, but Di Felice and other sources have 6 April.
- For many years it was believed that Rubinstein was born on 12 Oct 1882, but more recent research has shown that 1 Dec 1880, the birth date on Rubinstein's gravestone, is correct.[2]
- Ruiz Castillo's birthday is from Di Felice.
- Ibro Saric's GM title application lists his birthday as 20 December 1982, but both Di Felice and his IM application have 20 February.
- Shevchenko's birthday is from Di Felice.
- Shtemuliak's birthday is from Di Felice.
- Manuel Lopez Michellone, Murió el gran maestro Marcel Sisniega, Proceso, January 22, 2013
- Stellwagen's GM title application gives 3 January 1987 as his birthday, but Di Felice and other sources say 1 March.
- Stern's birthday is listed as 15 February 1972 by Di Felice and on his GM title application, but the German Wikipedia biography René Stern[de] gives 15 May.
- Świercz's GM title application gives his birth year as 1984. Di Felice says he was born in 1994.
- Tabatabaei's birthday is from Di Felice.
- Tazbir's GM title application lists his birthday as 2 August 1988, but Di Felice and his IM title application have 22 August.
- Trần Tuấn Minh date of birth is from Di Felice
- Evgeni Vasiukov (1933-2018), ruchess.ru, 10 May 2018
- Vetoshko's birthday is from Di Felice.
- Vorontsov's birthday is from Di Felice.
- Xu Xiangyu's birthday is more legible on his IM title application.
- Yang Kaiqi date of birth is from Di Felice.
- Yegiazarian's death reported in "Մահացել է գրոսմայստեր Արսեն Եղիազարյանը". 1lurer.am (in Armenian). 20 April 2020.
- Zherebukh's GM application lists his birthday as 14 September 1993, but Di Felice and his IM application have 14 July.
- Zhokova's GM application lists her birthday as 5 May 1979, but Di Felice has 5 June.
- Di Felice gives Zoler's birthday as 19 January 1974, but his GM title application has 10 January.
- Although it was recommended that Crişan's title be revoked in 2001,[6] he was still listed as a grandmaster in FIDE's official rating list until July 2015.[7] FIDE made no announcement when adjusting his rating downwards and de-listing his title in August 2015. However, the rating deduction was retroactively applied from October 2001.
References
- Manolache's GM title application lists his birth year as 1974, but Di Felice has 1973.
- Rubinstein's DOB, Chess History & Literature Society, 19 Apr 2014
- International Chess Federation [@FIDE_Chess] (8 September 2019). "Croatian GM Nenad Sulava passed away on September 5" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- International Chess Federation (6 September 2019), Nenad Sulava dies at 56, retrieved 27 October 2019
- "B.01 FIDE Title Regulations effective from 1 July 2017", FIDE Handbook, FIDE, 13 September 2016
- Crowther, Mark (17 September 2001), The Week in Chess 358, retrieved 12 December 2019
- Crowther, Mark (7 January 2002), The Week in Chess 374, retrieved 12 December 2019
- FIDE Ethics Commission (4 December 2015), FIDE Ethics Commission Case n. 7/2015 (PDF), FIDE, retrieved 2019-12-07
- FIDE Ethics Commission (5 December 2019), FIDE Ethics Commission Case n. 8/2019 (PDF), FIDE, retrieved 2019-12-07
- Gaige, Jeremy (1987). Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-2353-6. (Source for biographical dates and year title awarded for most players earning titles before 1987)
- Di Felice, Gino (2017), Chess International Titleholders, 1950–2016, McFarland, ISBN 978-1-4766-7132-1
- Iclicki, Willy (2016), FIDE Golden Book
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