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    The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition)...
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    The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous...
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    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...
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    The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. Prior to 2012...
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    The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE...
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    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...
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    The World Chess Championship 2021 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi to determine...
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  • and individuals: World Junior Pairs Championship Chess: World Junior Chess Championship (U20), an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under...
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  • World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an event held periodically from 1974 to 2024 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The...
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  • 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...
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  • Woodward is an American chess grandmaster and prodigy. Woodward earned his first IM norm in the 2021 North American Junior Championship in Charlotte, North...
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    The US Chess Championship is an invitational tournament organized by the United States Chess Federation to determine the country's chess champion. It...
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  • The Asian Junior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament open to players in Asia and Oceania (FIDE Zones 3.1 to 3.7) who are under 20 years of...
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    Vidit Gujrathi (category World Youth Chess Champions)
    December 2013. "World Youth Chess Championships 2009 Final Standings". Organiser. Retrieved 2 December 2013. "World Junior Chess Championship 2011". Retrieved...
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  • Gleb Dudin (category Hungarian chess players)
    after the seventh round of the U20 World Junior Chess Championship. He ultimately finished in 9th place in the championship. In February 2024, he won the 15th...
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    French Chess Championship, and in 2009, won the World Junior Chess Championship and the Biel Grandmaster Tournament. He repeated as French Chess Champion...
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    Chess Championships are a family of annual blitz chess tournaments held and hosted by the online chess platform Chess.com. The reigning Speed Chess Champion...
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    World Junior Chess Championship in Gaziantep, where he was always challenging for the lead. At the very strong EU Individual Open Chess Championship in...
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    Junior is a computer chess program written by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shai Bushinsky. Grandmaster Boris Alterman assisted, in particular with...
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  • The World Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. The 2024 tournament took place...
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    tournaments World Chess Championship Women's World Chess Championship World Junior Chess Championship Candidates Tournament Arbiter (chess) Tie-breaking in Swiss-system...
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  • The World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) is an annual competition in the solving of chess problems (also known as chess puzzles) organized by the World...
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  • The World Team Chess Championship is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of 10 countries whose chess federations dominate...
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    William Lombardy (category World Junior Chess Champions)
    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...
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    July 2008 "World Junior Chess Championship Starting Rank List". "World Junior Chess Championship Final Ranking". "World Junior Chess Championship Norms"....
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    Open Chess Championship in Victoria, British Columbia, in July 2012. The next month, he tied for fifth place in the World Junior Chess Championship in Athens...
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    The FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 was held in Moscow, Russia. The first six rounds were played between 27 November and 14 December 2001, and the final...
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    Hakobyan won the bronze medal in the World Junior Chess Championship. In September 2023, Hakobyan won a Chess.com-hosted Titled Tuesday tournament alongside...
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  • The first chess youth championship in Europe was the yearly European Junior Championship for under age 20. It was played from 1971–2002. FIDE officially...
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  • Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since...
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