USA’s Fabiano Caruana

#2 Rated Chess Player in the World

USA’s Fabiano Caruana the #2 rated chess player in world is now just 20 points behind Magnus Carlsen in the February 2020 World Chess Ratings!

Fabiano is Peaking!

Fabiano is peaking just in time for the 2020 Candidates Tournament–an eight-player double round-robin tournament where the top 8 players in the world will compete in Yekaterinburg, Russia from March 15 to April 5, 2020 for the opportunity to challenge world champion Magnus Carlsen for the title.

Fabiano must win the Candidates Tournament to meet Magnus in the World Chess Championship match in November 2020.

They played for Championship before!

Fabiano met Magnus in the 2018 World Chess Championship in a 12-game match in London, and played 12 draws Classical Chess–drawing all 12 games, only to lose the match in a Rapid Chess tiebreak playoff.

Norway’s Magnus Carlsen

#1 Rated Chess Player in the World!

World Chess Champion

Rated 2862!

Born: November 30, 1990 (age 29 years) in Tønsberg, Norway

#1 – China’s Yifan Hou

Rated 2664

Born: February 27, 1994 (age 25 years) in Xinghua, China

Top 10 Women in World – February 2020

Overall at 2664, Hou Yifan is now the #75 strongest rated chess player in the world!

Hou Yifan Relinquishes Title!

Hou Yifan relinquished her Women’s World Chess Champion title in 2018 to pursue her studies at Oxford, and played only a few Classical Chess games in 2019.

2020 Women’s World Chess Championship

The 2020 Women’s World Chess Championship between World Champion #2 ranked China’s Ju Wenjun (rated 2664) and her challenger, Russia’s #4 ranked Aleksandra Goryachkina (rated 2579), took place in January 2020 in two parts–one part held in Shanghai, China and one part in Vladivostok, Russia.

Ju Wenjun and Aleksandra each won 3 games and drew 6 games in the exciting match of 12 Classical Chess games, which ended in a tie.

However, Ju defeated Aleksandra in a Rapid Chess tiebreak playoff to retain her title!

Interesting, though, is that Ju lost one rating point and Aleksandra gained 1 rating point!

Challenger
Russia’s Aleksandra Goryachikina

#4 Rated: 2579

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