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 World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous...

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...

The World Chess Championship 2006 was a match between Classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik and FIDE World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov. The...

The 1975 World Chess Championship was not played due to a dispute over the match format. Champion Bobby Fischer (United States) was to play Anatoly Karpov...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

The 2021 World Blitz Chess Championship is the 1st edition of the annual chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the world champion in chess played under...

The fourth World Chess Championship was held in Havana from 1 January to 28 February 1892. Defending champion William Steinitz narrowly defeated challenger...

chess grandmasters during the Cold War and culminating in the World Chess Championship 1972 match versus Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, Iceland. It was directed...

Schmid and others. It includes rare archive footage from the World Chess Championship 1972. Director Liz Garbus began her work on the film after Fischer's...

national chess championship ever held, with eight world chess champions and four world championship finalists among its winners. It was held as a round-robin...

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

The 1969 World Chess Championship was played between Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky in Moscow from April 14 to June 17, 1969. This was the second consecutive...

Fischer, whom he seconded during the World Chess Championship 1972. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1957, the only person to win that tournament...

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

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...

sport being carried out behind closed doors was Game 3 of the World Chess Championship 1972 in Reykjavík, Iceland, often referred to as the Match of the...

the World Chess Championship since 1948. FIDE also organizes world championships for women, juniors, seniors, and the disabled, as well the world championships...

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

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

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

is an Indian chess grandmaster. Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion and a two-time Chess World Cup Champion...

National Premier Chess Championship is the annual national chess championship of India. It was established in 1955 by the Andhra State Chess Association as...

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...

20-game winning streak in 1970 and 1971. 1972 – Fischer beats Spassky in the World Chess Championship 1972 12½–8½. Due to its status as Cold War sporting...

of the World Chess Championship 1972. 1972: Boris Spassky vs Bobby Fischer, 11th Match Game, Reykjavik. In Game 11 of the highly publicized World Championship...