Dariusz Świercz (born 1994) is a Polish-American chess Grandmaster who won the World Junior Chess Championship in 2011. He has competed in multiple U.S. Chess Championships and has been a member of the Saint Louis University chess team.
Is Hans Niemann the second-best classical chess player of 2022?
Imagine a ranking system in which defeating the World Chess Champion trumps other considerations. In this system, Hans Niemann would be #2 for 2022. Niemann is the only player with a classical chess win over World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen. This imaginary system is more like sports rankings than chess rankings and is loosely based on the Morphy number. More 🡢