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    • Rating: 2727
    • World No. 23

    Veselin Topalov

    • Born: Mar 15, 1975 (Age 48)
    • Peak Rating: 2816
    • Blitz Rating: 2710
    • Rapid Rating: 2790
    Topalov is an even more spectacular example than Viswanathan Anand of a player whose career took off after Garry Kasparov retired from chess
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    • Rating: 2727
    • World No. 24

    Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

    • Born: Oct 21, 1990 (Age 32)
    • Peak Rating: 2819
    • Blitz Rating: 2948
    • Rapid Rating: 2873
    In contrast to contemporaries Carlsen and Karjakin, Vachier-Lagrave took time out to gain a university degree in mathematics
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    • Rating: 2726
    • World No. 25

    Jan-Krzysztof Duda

    • Born: Apr 26, 1998 (Age 25)
    • Peak Rating: 2760
    • Blitz Rating: 2818
    • Rapid Rating: 2808
    The new hope of Polish chess
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    • Rating: 2726
    • World No. 26

    Wei Yi

    • Born: Jun 2, 1999 (Age 24)
    • Peak Rating: 2753
    • Blitz Rating: 2740
    • Rapid Rating: 2752
    The Chinese prodigy was the youngest player ever to reach 2700, at the age 15
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    • Rating: 2720
    • World No. 27

    Yu Yangyi

    • Born: Jun 8, 1994 (Age 29)
    • Peak Rating: 2765
    • Blitz Rating: 2812
    • Rapid Rating: 2795
    The 2013 World Junior Champion is one of a hungry new generation of Chinese players threatening to take the chess world by storm
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    • Rating: 2716
    • World No. 29

    Pentala Harikrishna

    • Born: May 10, 1986 (Age 37)
    • Peak Rating: 2770
    • Blitz Rating: 2774
    • Rapid Rating: 2758
    Harikrishna is one of a wave of Indian chess talents to follow in Vishy Anand’s footsteps
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    • Rating: 2716
    • World No. 31

    Vidit Santosh Gujrathi

    • Born: Oct 24, 1994 (Age 28)
    • Peak Rating: 2731
    • Blitz Rating: 2756
    • Rapid Rating: 2718
    A rising star of Indian chess
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    • Rating: 2711
    • World No. 33

    Nikita Vitiugov

    • Born: Feb 4, 1987 (Age 36)
    • Peak Rating: 2751
    • Blitz Rating: 2727
    • Rapid Rating: 2712
    Nikita has had to do things the hard way, playing in six of the seven Russian Championship Superfinals from 2006-2012 only after qualifying through the extremely tough Russian Higher League
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    • Rating: 2710
    • World No. 34

    Daniil Dubov

    • Born: Apr 18, 1996 (Age 27)
    • Peak Rating: 2720
    • Blitz Rating: 2804
    • Rapid Rating: 2779
    An original chess thinker whose aggressive style of play has seen him compared to the great Mikhail Tal
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    • Rating: 2705
    • World No. 37

    Sanan Sjugirov

    • Born: Jan 31, 1993 (Age 30)
    • Peak Rating: 2712
    • Blitz Rating: 2748
    • Rapid Rating: 2765
    Sanan Sjugirov was born in Elista in the obscure Russian region of Kalmykia – obscure, that is, except when it comes to chess
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