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#2800 Club

10 entries across 1 section of the encyclopedia.

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  1. Player Veselin Topalov

    The 2005 FIDE World Champion, the world No. 1 at his peak, and a defining figure of Bulgarian chess — known for an attacking style that produced some of the era's most spectacular wins.
  2. Player Alireza Firouzja

    The youngest player to break 2800, the Iranian-born grandmaster who took French citizenship in 2021 and entered the world championship picture before…
  3. Player Arjun Erigaisi

    The Telangana-born grandmaster who in 2024 became the first Indian to cross the 2800 Elo barrier — and reset the ceiling for the country that produced Anand.
  4. Player Ding Liren

    China's first male world chess champion — and the player whose 2023 title victory came at the moment Carlsen chose not to defend.
  5. Player Fabiano Caruana

    America's strongest player — twice runner-up at the World Championship, and the most deeply prepared opening theoretician of the engine era.
  6. Player Garry Kasparov

    Twenty years atop the rating list, fifteen years world champion, and the player who turned opening preparation into a science.
  7. Player Hikaru Nakamura

    Five-time US champion and the most prolific online chess broadcaster ever — the player who showed that streaming and grandmaster chess could coexist.
  8. Player Viswanathan Anand

    India's first grandmaster, five-time world champion, and the player who showed that elite chess could be played from Madras as readily as from Moscow.
  9. Player Vladimir Kramnik

    The Russian world champion who took the title from Kasparov in London 2000 — and proved, with the Berlin Defense
  10. Player Magnus Carlsen

    Twelve years atop the rating list. The quiet revolution he started in opening preparation, and the empire he chose to leave behind.