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Are there any women in the top one hundred chess players?
As of March 2017, the top rated woman is Yifan Hou, with rank of 117 and a rating of 2649. The 100th ranked player is Evgeniy Najer (male), with a rating of 2659.
Therefore, currently it is true that ...
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Are there any women in the top one hundred chess players?
As of today, there are no women among the top 100 rated players.
Ratings are changing and Hou Yifan who is currently ranked No. 117 in the March 2017 FIDE World Rankings (https://ratings.fide.com/...
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Is the "new automatic chess e-board" Regium a scam?
The claims made by the Regium Chess company seem to be accompanied by a product that clearly has used video editing tools to present the product. For example, the pieces that move on their own are ...
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Is the "new automatic chess e-board" Regium a scam?
TL;DR: Independent evidence suggests the board does not (yet) exist; the makers themselves describe the hardware as "very advanced, between 65% and 70%". The company behind Regium has failed to ...
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Did Capablanca accuse members of the House of Commons of cheating in chess in 1919?
The closest information I could find on the matter is from the book The Unknown Capablanca by David Brandreth and Dale Hooper, which contains the following passage amidst the transcripts of some of ...
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Are there more 40-moves chess games than atoms in the universe?
The accepted answer is wrong, due to the fallacy of accepting a link to a another website as the truth, rather than actually doing the math.
Particularly, the site http://mathworld.wolfram.com/...
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