Examples of using "шахматиста" in a sentence and their english translations:
- Chess players must be good at strategic thinking.
- Chess players have to be good at strategic thinking.
ELO is the number calculated by the system adopted by FIDE to assess the skill of a professional chess player.
Miguel Najdorf and Oscar Panno are two famous Argentine chess players. Najdorf was born in Poland.
Rating is the measure of a chess player's strength, calculated using mathematical formulas that take into account the player's performance in official tournaments.
It is said that the limit that a chess player's ELO can reach is 3000. Until today, the maximum reached was 2882, by the current world champion Magnus Carlsen.
Rafael Leitão points out that the insertion of chess in Brazilian schools is a positive fact, but he believes that we are still far from the minimum acceptable level for someone to earn stable incomes as a professional chess player.
Due to the lack of government support for sport, says Rafael Leitão, the professional chess player in Brazil has no financial stability at all. So, if you want to take chess seriously, you need to travel all the time to Europe and the United States to play in the big tournaments.