Chess Couples
In the chess world people play chess, meet each other and, of course, some of them fall in love and get married. It will be wonderful to have an organizer who would be interested to hold an annual tournaments between chess families.
Here are the top 10 chess couples base on the FIDE rating on April 1, 2009.
| Husband | Elo | Wife | Elo | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grischuk A. | 2748 | Zhukova | 2461 | 2604.5 |
| Fressinet | 2664 | Skripchenko | 2449 | 2556.5 |
| Fridman D. | 2646 | Zatonskih | 2461 | 2553.5 |
| Socko B | 2637 | Socko M | 2456 | 2546.5 |
| Al-Modhiak | 2585 | Zhu Chen | 2491 | 2538 |
| Peng Xiaomin | 2588 | Qin Kanying | 2466 | 2527 |
| Atalik Suat | 2607 | Atalik E. | 2434 | 2520.5 |
| Zhang Zhong | 2613 | Li Ruofan | 2423 | 2518 |
| Fontaine | 2546 | Lahno | 2478 | 2512 |
| Bellon | 2439 | Cramling | 2528 | 2483.5 |
Labels: chess couples
posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk @ 2:59 PM
4 Comments:
At June 9, 2009 at 10:32 PM ,
Meliza said...
Nice blog very cute, i am starting play chess and are wondefull I never tought many couples bewten players of chess. Keep goin, greetings...
At June 10, 2009 at 2:04 AM ,
Peter Zhdanov said...
Omg, Alexandra, "great minds think alike" :-)
http://pogonina.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=1
We've just prepared an article on almost the same topic!
At June 10, 2009 at 6:59 AM ,
Anonymous said...
It's good that at least in 1 couple it's the woman who is stronger, good for Cramling!
At June 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM ,
Anonymous said...
Funny almost all couples are with players from different countries. That shows chess brings together people.
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