Amsterdam 1956 was a chess tournament won by Vasily Smyslov. It was the Candidates Tournament for the 1957 World Chess Championship match between Smyslov...

The IBM international chess tournament was a series of very strong chess tournaments held in the Amsterdam, Netherlands from 1961 to 1981, and was sponsored...

There was a knockout tournament in London in 1849 and a tournament in Amsterdam in 1851. The first international chess tournament was held in London in...

The Candidates Tournament (or in some periods Candidates Matches) is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since...

World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had...

elite level in classical chess at 125 games. A chess prodigy, Carlsen finished first in the C group of the Corus chess tournament shortly after he turned...

the strongest chess tournaments in history. The following list is not intended to be an exhaustive or definitive record of tournament chess, but takes as...

notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...

World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978. Euwe was born in the Watergraafsmeer, in Amsterdam. He studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam under...

held in Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Dutch Boxing Association as well as the Dutch Chess Federation and under the auspices of the World Chess Boxing...

Steel Chess Tournament 2016 was the 78th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. It was held in Wijk aan Zee (with away days in Amsterdam and Utrecht)...

a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of...

first in a tournament in Reykjavík and was equal second at Amsterdam. He played in the gold medal-winning Dutch team at the European Team Chess Championships...

Tex de Wit (born May 17, 1986 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch comedian, writer, stand-up comedian, actor, chess player and television presenter. De Wit is the...

The chess game between Emanuel Lasker and Johann Bauer played in Amsterdam in 1889 is one of the most famous on account of Lasker's sacrifice of both bishops...

Smyslov won. 1955 Goteborg Interzonal Tournament, Mark Weeks' Chess Pages 1956 Amsterdam Candidates Tournament, mark-weeks.com From Morphy to Fischer...

Chess Tournament 2014 was the 76th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. It was held in Wijk aan Zee (with away days in Eindhoven and Amsterdam)...

2023. Chess.com has hosted online tournaments including Titled Tuesdays, the PRO Chess League, the Speed Chess Championships, PogChamps, Online Chess Olympiads...

& Blitz Tournament (Blitz), Kolkata 1st 2019 Paris Grand Chess Tour blitz tournament, Paris 1st-3rd 2019 Levitov blitz tournament, Amsterdam 1st-2nd 2021...

International Chess Federation) took over administration of the World Championship, beginning with the 1948 World Championship tournament. From 1948 to...

employed at a chess tournament in Zürich in 1895 by Julius Müller, hence the name "Swiss system", and is now used in many games including chess, go, bridge...

Tal was a highly regarded chess writer. Tal died on 28 June 1992 in Moscow, Russia. The Mikhail Tal Memorial chess tournament has been held in Moscow annually...

conjunction with the World Computer Speed Chess Championship and the Computer Olympiad, a collection of computer tournaments for other board games. Instead of...

The World Chess Championship 1993 was one of the most controversial matches in chess history, with incumbent World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, and official...

1944–75) and Nazi Germany (1941–44) in international tournaments. Keres won the AVRO 1938 chess tournament, which led to negotiations for a title match against...

The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...

chess magazines Chess and Chess Sheet, the text-books of Lasker and Capablanca, and the collections of games of Soviet and international tournaments....

1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight...

1948 World Chess Championship tournament, and tied for second in the 1953 Candidates tournament. He was an eight-time winner of the US Chess Championship...

play in master-level tournaments and thus launched his chess career. Lasker finished second in an international tournament at Amsterdam, ahead of Mason and...