The FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 was a chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the World Chess Champion. At the time the World Chess Champion...

The FIDE World Chess Championship 1998 was contested in a match between the FIDE World Champion Anatoly Karpov and the challenger Viswanathan Anand. The...

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...

participate, most notably FIDE World Champion Anatoly Karpov. The events were held at a similar time as the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996, with many of the...

Since 2012, FIDE has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships. FIDE also holds...

The FIDE World Chess Championships from 1998 to 2004 followed a similar knockout format, radically different from previous World Chess Championship events...

The World Chess Championship 2026 will be a chess match to determine the new World Chess Champion. It will be played between the defending champion (the...

Professional Chess Association (PCA) split from FIDE, and as a result there were two competing World Championship titles between 1993 and 2006. Chess was first...

splitting from FIDE, the official world governing body of chess, and playing their title match under the auspices of the Professional Chess Association....

Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion. Kamsky reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 at the age of 22...

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 inception...

chess player. Several times a World Championship Candidate, he reached the semifinals in 1997, 1999 and 2000. He reached the final at the 2004 FIDE Championship...

The Asian Chess Championship is a chess tournament open to all players from Asian chess federations (FIDE zones from 3.1 to 3.8). It's held with the Swiss...

The World Amateur Chess Championship is a tournament organised by FIDE and Amateur Chess Organisation (ACO). The world governing body intended to promote...

chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess...

The World Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. Originally, the minimum age...

seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. The first world number...

In 2008, FIDE added Chess960 to an appendix of the Laws of Chess. The first world championship officially sanctioned by FIDE, the FIDE World Fischer Random...

The international chess governing body FIDE grants several titles, the most prestigious of which is Grandmaster; many national chess federations also grant...

are 42 female chess players who hold the title of Grandmaster (GM), the highest title awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The Grandmaster...

popular chess variant in which the positions of pieces on the players' home ranks are randomized with certain constraints. Prior to 2019 FIDE did not...

Chess Championship 2000 Classical World Chess Championship 2004 FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 FIDE World Chess Championship 1998 FIDE World Chess Championships...

old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). The idea was the brainchild of William Ritson-Morry, who organized...

The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ˈfiːdeɪ/ FEE-day Fédération Internationale...

organized by the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), previously by FIDE via the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC)...

International Chess Federation (FIDE) and revolve around the World Championship cycle, which culminates in a match to decide the Women's World Chess Champion...

The Professional Chess Association (PCA), which existed between 1993 and 1996, was a rival organisation to FIDE, the international chess organization. The...

The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve...

28 February 1990) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been...

the World Chess Championship 2007: an eight-player tournament which included FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov, but not "Classical" World Champion Vladimir...