The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion...

The 1972 Women's World Chess Championship was won by Nona Gaprindashvili, who successfully defended her title against challenger Alla Kushnir. This was...

The Women's World Chess Championship is a chess match played to determine the Women's World Chess Champion. It has been administered by FIDE since its...

Women's Open Chess Championship Women's World Chess Championship U.S. Chess Championship USCF website Braine, Bob (August 1972). "The 1972 Women's Championship"...

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi...

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...

and Women events were selected to participate in the Chess World Cup 2025 and Women's Chess World Cup 2025. Multiple National Women Chess Championship winners...

Karpov Women's Soviet Chess Championship Russian Chess Championship Mark Taimanov, Bernard Cafferty, Soviet Championships, London, Everyman Chess, 1998...

The US Chess Championship is an invitational tournament organized by the United States Chess Federation to determine the country's chess champion. It...

The World Correspondence Chess Championship determines the World Champion in correspondence chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest the...

Invitational. The longest game played in a world championship is the 6th game of the 2021 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi...

The World Chess960 Championship is a match or tournament held to determine a world champion in Chess960 (also known as Fischer random chess), a popular...

National Closed Chess Championship prior to 2016, the first edition was held in 1974. A separate Malaysian Women's Chess Championship has also been held...

appendix of the Laws of Chess. The first world championship officially sanctioned by FIDE, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019, brought additional...

an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of...

Events in chess in 1972; FIDE top 10 by Elo rating – July 1972 Bobby Fischer  United States 2785 Boris Spassky  Soviet Union 2660 Tigran Petrosian  Soviet...

the World Women's Chess Olympiad Women's World Chess Championship World Chess Championship World Mind Sports Games World Team Chess Championship Brace...

Best Chess Journalist: Leonard Barden The Most Memorable FIDE Chess Tournament: World Chess Championship 1972 The Most Memorable Private Chess Tournament:...

Nations Chess Association South Asian Chess Council (SACC) World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) World Chess Championship Women's World Chess Championship...

Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams...

The 2021 World Blitz Chess Championship is the 2021 edition of the annual chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the world champion in chess played...

A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank. Such titles are usually granted...

The winner of the Canadian Closed advances to the World Cup stage of the FIDE World Chess Championship cycle. Winners on tiebreak or a playoff match are...

title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain...

portal Outline of chess Glossary of chess Glossary of chess problems List of World Chess Championships List of chess players Women in chess The fifty-move...

The Women's World Chess Championship was established by FIDE in 1927. The format and regularity of the event has changed many times. The International...

modern chess tournament play began, and the first official World Chess Championship was held in 1886. The 20th century saw great leaps forward in chess theory...

the World Chess Championship. The winner of the Candidates earns the right to a match for the World Championship against the incumbent world champion....

chess team has won the European Team Championship (1999), the World Team Championship (2011) and the Chess Olympiad (2006, 2008, 2012). The women's team...

(WGM). She is twice runner-up at the Women's World Chess Championship, in 1999 and 2006, and three-time Russian women's champion (1997, 2009, 2010). She was...