The third World Chess Championship was held in New York City from 9 December 1890 to 22 January 1891. Holder Wilhelm Steinitz (known as William Steinitz...

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...

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

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...

1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years...

The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship. It had nine...

later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician....

1854 – 2 May 1930) was a Hungarian chess player, best known for narrowly losing the 1891 World Chess Championship match to Wilhelm Steinitz. Gunsberg...

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five-time U.S. Chess Champion: 1890, 1892, 1892–1894, 1895–96 and 1906–1909. Showalter won U.S. Championship matches against Max Judd (1891/92, +7−4=3),...

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president of Leamington Chess Club. "Club History". Leamington Chess Club. Retrieved 20 July 2016. British Chess Magazine, December 1890 "The Oxford Dictionary...

1891 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships College championship College football national championship...

Farnborough, Hampshire – 11 December 1951, Kingston-upon-Thames) was an English chess master. Blake won many tournaments played in England toward the end of the...

March 1837, in North Kessock, Scotland – 14 April 1891, in New York City) was a Scottish-born American chess master. Mackenzie was educated mainly in Aberdeen...

narrowly lost a world title match against Steinitz in 1890 (+6−4=9). The 1876 match against Steinitz was held at the West-end Chess Club in London. The...

chess grandmaster István Csom (1940–2021), Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter István Fazekas (1898–1967), Hungarian–British chess master...

London Chess Club. The University won by 19.5-17.5. In 1890 he defeated future world champion Emanuel Lasker in a casual game at the British Chess Club...

British Chess Magazine. In 1890, he won a match against Charles Moehle 7½–6½ in New York, took 2nd place at the St. Louis Chess Congress, and played in Chicago...

The Two Knights Defense (also called the Prussian Defense) is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 First recorded...

American-English chess master and writer. He competed in chess tournaments between 1870 and 1895, playing against most of the world's leading players,...

The International Skating Union organises the following World Championships in the sport of speed skating: Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com Source: SpeedSkatingStats...

and in 1890 earned the title of chess master at Amsterdam. Jasnogrodsky became part of the chess fraternity of the Simpson's-in-the-Strand by 1891 and made...

von Moltke the Elder (1800–1891), field marshal, chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years Friedrich Paulus (1890–1957), general and commander...

regarded Rabbi. He had a brother who was 8 years younger, the later World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker. He attended the Friedrichwerdersches Gymnasium...

1890 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships College championship College football national championship...

Kronberger (1890–1974), four-time world figure skating champion, two-time bronze, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame Péter Lékó (born 1979), chess player Imi...

as chess. The fact that shots can be made or missed, together with the continuum of possible outcomes, makes strategy much less rigid than in chess, and...

Korchnoi, 1981 Another example is the eighth game of the 1981 World Chess Championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi. Black forces...