Fide Chess Rating Trivia Quiz!

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Hi everyone,

Have you checked Chess Queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk's Fide rating progress yet? Click on graph to read her personal blog entry.

Here is our Fide rating chess trivia quiz! You must be reading the news about the October 2012 rating list so let's check what you remember from yesterday ;)

1- What is World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand's rating and world ranking?

2-Who is the oldest Grandmaster in the world top 100 and what is his rank and rating? (Hint: No he is not Vassily Ivanchuk. He is from Germany)

3-Who is the oldest rated woman chess player in the top-100 and what is her rank and rating?

4-Who has been ranked world #1 most times and how many times?

5-Which country has the most number of Grandmasters in the world... oh no! that's way too easy. Yes, it's Russia ;) So, how many GMs does Russia have and which country has the next highest number of GMs? Tricky?

6-In the women's category, China has the highest average rating of 2479 with 30 GMs and 23 IMs. But, which country has a whopping 215 Grandmasters and 495 IMs among women chess players?

We will post the answers in the comments tomorrow so don't forget to check back if you don't want to go hunting. Checkmate if you don't know the answers already!

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