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@ -200,6 +200,8 @@ The **longest game played in practice** is considered to be the one between Niko
**Best players ever**: a 2017 paper called *Who is the Master?* analyzed 20 of the top players of history based on how good their moves were compared to Stockfish, the strongest engine. The resulting **top 10** was (from best): Carlsen (born 1990 Norway, peak Elo 2882), Kramnik (born 1975 Russia, peak Elo 2817), Fischer (born 1943 USA, peak Elo 2785), Kasparov (born 1963 Russia, peak Elo 2851), Anand (born 1969 India, peak Elo 2817), Khalifman, Smyslov, Petrosian, Karpov, Kasimdzhanov. It also confirmed that the quality of chess play at top level has been greatly increasing. The **best [woman](woman.md) player** in history is considered to be Judit Polgar (born 1976 Hungary, peak Elo 2735), which still only managed to reach some 49th place in the world; by Elo she is followed by Hou Yifan (born 1994 China, peak Elo 2686) and Koneru Humpy (born 1987 India, peak Elo 2623). **Strongest players of black [race](race.md)** (NOT including brown, e.g. India): lol there don't seem to be many black players in chess :D The first black GM only appeared in 1999 (!!!) -- Maurice Ashley (born 1966 Jamaica, peak rating 2504) who is also probably the most famous black chess player, though more because of his commentator skills; Pontus Carlsson (peak Elo 2531) may be strongest. { Sorry if I'm wrong about the strongest black player, this information is pretty hard to find as of course you won't find a race record in any chess player database. So thanks to political correctness we just can't easily find good black players. ~drummyfish } **Strongest engine** is currently the latest version of Stockfish NNUE.
**How much [Elo](elo.md) is one pawn worth in odds games?** I.e. if we let a player start with a disadvantage of *N* pawns, how much will his Elo drop? Firstly this depends on the rating of both players -- giving a rook to a 200 Elo player does almost nothing while in a master-level game such disadvantage presents a fatal blow. According to [this website](https://wismuth.com/elo/calculator.html) one pawn advantage is approximately equal to 100, 200 and 300 Elo increase for average player ratings 1250, 2000 and 2500 respectively.
What is **the most typical game**? We can try to construct such a game from a game database by always picking the most common move in given position. Using the lichess database at the time of writing, we get the following incomplete game (the remainder of the game is split between four games, 2 won by white, 1 by black, 1 drawn):
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