7/21/19

U.S. Has Three of Top Ten Highest Rated Chess Players Today

A mild surprise is the appearance of newly christened American Chess Federation player Leinier Dominguez-Perez in the world's top ten live ratings list. The other two are old, familiar top ten players. Missing from the top ten is former world number two Hikaru Nakamura, or the U.S.A. would have four of ten.

That's not bad for a country that had just one world champion; the late Robert James Fischer.

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/dortmund-2-4-dominguez-up-to-world-no-7

https://2700chess.com/

I learned chess at age 57. Most good players- class A players, start much earlier. Grandmasters almost always begin learning the game before age 12. It's hard for adults to find the time to invest in chess quantitatively enough to be very good at it. 

Dominguez-Perez  has a classical chess rating of 2763 and blitz of 2703. One improves watching the games of better players.

I.M.O. If one reaches 1600 one has a fair club chess game (at blitz). My blitz rating is 1403. 
https://www.chess.com/stats/live/blitz/garrison_gibson

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