The Zurich Chess Challenge (ZCC) is one of the major recurring international chess tournaments, combining rapid chess with classical or blitz chess. Zurich...
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Viswanathan Anand (redirect from Chess Anand)
Rapid and Blitz Championships, Zurich Chess Challenge, Bilbao Masters, and London Chess Classic. 3rd Zurich Chess Challenge: From 29 January – 4 February...
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Hikaru Nakamura (redirect from Hikaru (chess))
finish in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament at Wijk Aan Zee, with a 5/11 score (+2−3=6). He then played the Zurich Chess Challenge, drawing with Caruana in...
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Xtracon Chess Open Zurich Chess Challenge Chess World Cup 2005 Chess World Cup 2007 Chess World Cup 2009 Chess World Cup 2011 Chess World Cup 2013 Chess World...
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Zurich 1934 was an international chess tournament held in Zurich from 14 to 29 July 1934 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Schachgesellschaft Zürich...
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the strongest tournaments had been classified category XXI. The Zurich Chess Challenge 2014, held from 29 January to 4 February 2014, was the first ever...
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Fabiano Caruana (redirect from CaruanaChess)
11 games. In the end of January into early February, at the Zurich Chess Challenge in Zürich, Switzerland, Caruana won the rapid section with four points...
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Levon Aronian (category Chess Grandmasters)
Chess Classic (2015)". ChessGames. Retrieved 2 December 2017. "Zurich Chess Challenge_ Caruana, Nakamura, Anand, Kramnik, Aronian, Karjakin". Chess-News...
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Magnus Carlsen (category Norwegian chess players)
ChessBase News. 22 November 2013. Archived from the original on 24 November 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2013. "Zurich Chess Challenge 2014". ChessDom...
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Candidates Tournament 1953 (redirect from Zürich 1953 chess tournament)
points. Zürich 1934 chess tournament Zurich Chess Challenge Bronstein, David (1978), Hochberg, Burt (ed.), The Chess Struggle in Practice: Zurich International...
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Championship FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–14 Norway Chess 2014 Shamkir Chess Sinquefield Cup 2014 Zurich Chess Challenge 2014...
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Grigoriy Oparin (category Chess Grandmasters)
Generations 2016". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 3 January 2018. "Grigoriy Oparin qualifies for Kortchnoi Zurich Chess Challenge". Chessdom. 23 December 2016...
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not the tournament with the highest-ever rating average; the 2014 Zurich Chess Challenge and the 2014 Sinquefield Cup had average ratings of 2801 and 2802...
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Pearl Spring chess tournament (Nanjing, 2008) M-Tel Masters (Sofia) Tal Memorial (Moscow, 2009–2013) Bilbao Chess Masters Final Zurich Chess Challenge...
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Viktor Korchnoi (category Chess Grandmasters)
Viktor Korchnoi FIDE rating history, 1967–2001 at OlimpBase.org "Zurich Chess Challenge – Aronian wins blitz!". chess24.com. "Viktor Korchnoi wins World...
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tournaments: 1 April – Magnus Carlsen wins the right to challenge Viswanathan Anand for the 2013 World Chess Championship after winning the Candidates Tournament...
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1969) and Vladimir Kramnik (born 25 June 1975) have played 93 classical chess games, of which Kramnik won eleven, Anand won eleven, and 71 games were...
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Tournament, Mark Weeks' Chess pages, quoting Chess Review, November 1952, p.322 Andy Soltis (2002). "Treachery in Zurich, part 1" (PDF). Chess Cafe. Archived from...
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Events in chess during the year 2015: This is a list of significant 2015 chess tournaments: 26 May: Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura clinch the top...
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David Bronstein (category Chess Grandmasters)
was also a renowned chess writer; his book Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 is widely considered one of the greatest chess books ever written...
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Hou Yifan (redirect from Hou Yifan (Chinese chess player))
pronunciation; born 27 February 1994) is a Chinese chess grandmaster, three-time Women's World Chess Champion and professor at Peking University. She is...
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Bobby Fischer (redirect from Bobby Fischer (chess career))
1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight...
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Alexander Kotov (category Chess Grandmasters)
in Zürich, he scored 14/28, and was the only person to win a game against the tournament's winner, Smyslov. Kotov played for the USSR at the Chess Olympiads...
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a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of...
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who challenged Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2016. Magnus Carlsen won the match on tiebreaks and retained the title of World Chess Champion...
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Emanuel Lasker (redirect from Lasker's Chess Magazine)
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...
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At the World Chess Championship 1963, Tigran Petrosian narrowly qualified to challenge Mikhail Botvinnik for the World Chess Championship, and then won...
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Paul Morphy (redirect from The Pride and Sorrow of Chess)
1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. A prodigy, Morphy...
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Samuel Reshevsky (category Chess Grandmasters)
April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship from the mid...
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Max Euwe (category 20th-century Dutch chess players)
26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion, a title he...
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