The paper's print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation. Following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a national newspaper of record.
From 1948 on, the World Chess Federation FIDE held the championships. Between 1993 and 2006 there were two world champion titles, the FIDE one and the classical one. The 2013 World Championship match took place between Anand and Magnus Carlsen (challenger) in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, where Anand grew up.
8. Paul Morphy had been the favorite player for many. And many have even claimed that he was the greatest chess player in the history. Had he pursued his career further in Chess, he would undoubtedly be a contender for the number one chess player of the world.Just consider that Paul played 227 competitive games winning a whopping 83%.. Garry Kasparov, Russia. Garry Kasparov has become synonymous to Chess. He is known as the brilliant tactician and aggressively dynamic player. He rightly deserves to be at the top of this list as heâs contributed a lot in Chess theory and dominated the history like no other.