The World Chess Championship 2016 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Sergey Karjakin to determine...
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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...
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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 2023 was a chess match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren to determine the new World Chess Champion. The match took...
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The College, Holborn The World Chess Championship 2018 was a match between the reigning world champion since 2013, Magnus Carlsen, and the challenger Fabiano...
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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 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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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...
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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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The World Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. Originally, the minimum age...
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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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World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an event held periodically since 1974 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is...
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The World Chess Championship 2012 was a chess match between the defending World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner...
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The World Amateur Chess Championship is a tournament organised by FIDE and Amateur Chess Organisation (ACO). The world governing body intended to promote...
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The World Chess Championship 1984–1985 was a match between challenger Garry Kasparov and defending champion Anatoly Karpov in Moscow from 10 September...
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The World Chess Championship 2006 was a match between Classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik and FIDE World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov. The...
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The Women's World Chess Championship 2016 was a chess match played between Mariya Muzychuk, the defending champion, and the challenger Hou Yifan to determine...
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controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. Armageddon chess is a particular variation...
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The World Chess Championship 2014 was a match between the world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Viswanathan Anand, to determine the World Chess Champion...
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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 2010 match pitted the defending world champion, Viswanathan Anand, against challenger Veselin Topalov, for the title of World...
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A World Chess Championship was played between Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky in Moscow from April 9 to June 9, 1966. Petrosian won. An interzonal tournament...
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it being a rapid chess game. The longest game played in a world championship is the 6th game of the 2021 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen...
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The Women's World Chess Championship 2017 was a 64-player knock-out tournament, to decide the women's world chess champion. The final was won by Tan Zhongyi...
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2023. Chess.com has hosted online tournaments including Titled Tuesdays, the PRO Chess League, the Speed Chess Championships, PogChamps, Online Chess Olympiads...
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On 3 December 2021, in the sixth game of the World Chess Championship 2021, the defending world champion Magnus Carlsen (as White) defeated the challenger...
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Viswanathan Anand (redirect from Chess Anand)
December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion. He became the first...
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single-elimination tournament, forming part of the qualification for the World Chess Championship. From the 2021 edition to present, the number of players has increased...
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The World Correspondence Chess Championship determines the World Champion in correspondence chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest the...
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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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