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For the First Time, the United States Has More Chess Players Than Russia: Report
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For the first time in history, the United States outnumbers Russia in terms of chess grandmasters. According to Newsweek, this is due to an increasing number of top Russian players refusing to represent their country following Vladimir Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine.
The International Chess Federation (FIDE), the game’s governing body, has released its July rankings for the top hundred players in the world. It features 13 players from the United States and 12 from Russia, marking the first time that the United States has more players on the list.
According to Newsweek, Fabiano Caruana, 29, Levon Aronian, 39, and Wesley So, 28, are all between many FIDE’s top ten players in the world this month, ranked fourth, fifth, and sixth, respectively, while 31-year-old Ian Nepomniachtchi is the only Russian grandmaster in the top ten.
Meanwhile, top Russian chess players such as 32-year-old Dmitry Andreikin, 35-year-old Nikita Vitiugov, 25-year-old Kirill Alekseenko, 28-year-old Alexandr Predke, 27-year-old Vladimir Fedoseev, 20-year-old Andrey Esipenko, 22-year-old Alexey Sarana, 34-year-old Anton Demchenko, and 41-year-old Vladimir Malakhov have

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According to Newsweek, Russia still has the most grandmasters (246) compared to 101 in the United States. Outrage over Putin’s battle on Ukraine has compelled several top Russian players to join the Russian Chess Federation and join FIDE, according to Emil Sutovsky, an Israeli grandmaster and FIDE’s director general.
“Russia had 22 elite players in the top 100 five years ago,” Sutovsky remarked. “It’s only 12 o’clock in the afternoon.” This is not because the elder generation led by Kramnik has dropped out; rather, as the war began, many great Russian chess players felt it was suitable to switch to playing under the neutral flag of FIDE, according to Newsweek.

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