Explain: What are fide ratings? How Indian chess players dominated

Last Updated: August 25, 2025, 21:12 What is Fide Rating: What is Fide Rating: Vishwanathan Anand is the first Grand Master of India, to chess’s popularity. Today, India moved to become the king of chess. Indian chess player R. Pragyannanda, D Gukesh and Arvidam Chidambaram. (From left to right) What is fide ratings: Chess is a hundreds of year -old game played from home to house in India. A film like ‘Chess Ke Khiladi’ is proof of the popularity of this game. But in the true sense, India draws its presence in the world of chess for the first time in the 1980s, when Vishwanathan Anand emerged. Vishwanathan Anand is the first Grand Master of India to give a new definition to this match in the country. Since Anand was seen, a whole generation of the country adopted this match and today India moved to become the king of chess. Indians have established themselves as a force in chess in the last two years. Indian players came out in both ‘open’ and ‘women’s classes’. For the first time in the history of chess, there are three Indian players in the top 10 in fide ratings. In fide ratings, there are three Indians in the top 10 in the classic format of ‘Open Category’. There are three Indians in the top 15 in the women’s category. What are fide ratings? The rating in chess shows the strength of a player. It also shows the possibility of his actions. Ratings is a number that can go from 100 to infinite. Different rating systems were used by different chess associations and organizations. The system used by websites such as fide and chess24.com is an ELO rating system. It was developed by the Hungarian American chase master and Professor Arpad Aloe of Physics. The ELO rating system was officially adopted by the US Chase Federation in 1960 and Fide in 1970. The ELO rating system works the player’s rating on the basis of their performance after each bet. The victory increases its rating and decreases with the defeat. Aloe prepared a formula that calculates the player’s latest rating he calls ‘Linier approach’. This explains the old and current ratings of ‘Rold’ and ‘RNEW’ players, while ‘di’ is a competitive rating. After calculating all of this, some points are added or reduced to the player’s rating. Fide ratings occur in many categories. This includes standard, fast and blitz time format in ‘Open’ and ‘Women’ categories. Ratings are also published in three formats for ‘juniors’ and ‘girls’. Fide ratings are updated every month. The Indian players are constantly dominating the world of chess, making a trio of Gukesh, Pragyananda and Arjun. However, it is not yet as in hockey from 1930 to 1960s. The trio of D Gukesh, R Pragyananda and Arjun Arigasi won India last year in very big tournaments of Chase Olympiad. Nevertheless, Magnus Carlson is still at number one in all three formats. US grandmothers Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana are also in the top-3 in classic ratings. D. Gukesh, R Pragyananda and Arjun are included in Arigasi Top-10. D Gukesh is the youngest world champion in the history of chess. Who can have the historic All-Indian final of Divya Deshmukh and Koneru Hampi in Fide Women’s World Cup. It was won by Divya Deshmukh. About the author Vijay Prabhat Shukla co -editor has been active in journalism for two decades. Responsibility of sports as co-editor Sport in News18Hindi from April 2020. Page 1 in Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala newspapers before News18 Hindi, Page-1, Sport, abroad, election d … read more in journalism for two decades. Responsibility of sports as co-editor Sport in News18Hindi from April 2020. Page 1 in Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala newspapers before News18 Hindi … How Indian chess players dominated