World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from 12 September 2007 to 30 September 2007 to decide the world champion of the game of chess. It...

Below is a list of events in chess during the year 2007: (Top events in bold) January 1 – Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) lost 30 rating points but still tops...

Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...

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...

This is a list of chess variants. Many thousands of variants exist. The 2007 catalogue The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants estimates that there are well...

Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. The site has a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and...

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...

The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2010. It was held as a 128-player single-elimination tournament...

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

Shirov in a six-game match to win the 2000 FIDE World Chess Championship, a title he held until 2002. He became the undisputed world champion in 2007 and...

Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles...

to chess: Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid). In a chess...

Three-dimensional chess (or 3‑D chess) is any chess variant that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells between which...

The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally...

Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls...

Cheating in chess is a deliberate violation of the rules of chess or other behaviour that is intended to give an unfair advantage to a player or team....

In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it regards...

title in 2007 at the age of 14, and in the same year won his first Italian Chess Championship, a feat he repeated in 2008, 2010, and 2011. In 2014, Caruana...

Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to...

The Corus Chess Tournament 2007 was the 69th edition of the Corus Chess Tournament. It was held in Wijk aan Zee in January 2007 and was won jointly by...

Women represent a small minority of chess players at all ages and levels. Female chess players today generally compete in a mix of open tournaments and women's...

the Chess Olympiad (Torino 2006). In June 2007, she became the youngest Chinese Women's Champion ever. She achieved the titles of Woman FIDE Master in January...

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...

This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order. Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin. For...

A chess variant is a game related to, derived from, or inspired by chess. Such variants can differ from chess in many different ways. "International" or...

solving chess-like games (i.e. combinatorial games of perfect information) such as Capablanca chess and infinite chess. In a weaker sense, solving chess may...

organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition. FIDE...

The chess events at the 2007 All-Africa Games were held from 12 to 21 July at the Cité des Sciences in Algiers. The four events were men's and women's...

Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the...

Human chess, living chess or live chess is a form of chess in which people take the place of pieces. The game is typically played outdoors, either on...