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    The British Chess Championships are organised by the English Chess Federation. The main tournament incorporates the British Championship, the English Chess...
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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 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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  • December 1955) was a British chess player. He won the British Open Chess Championship in 1934 and the British Chess Championship in 1935 and 1936. An...
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  • National Premier Chess Championship is the annual national chess championship of India. It was established in 1955 by the Andhra State Chess Association as...
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    the British Chess Championship 2016 with 10/11 tied the record score set by Julian Hodgson in 1992. Adams also won the British Rapidplay Championship in...
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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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  • own chess federations. Only England came under BCF jurisdiction, and it also administered the British Chess Championship. In 2004, English chess administrators...
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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 Scottish Chess Championship is organised by Chess Scotland, formerly the Scottish Chess Association. It has been running since 1884, and nowadays takes...
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  • Britain, where he took the chess world by storm. In an international chess career of less than five years (1929–33), he won the British Championship three...
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    English chess grandmaster and commentator. A three-time British champion (2009, 2013 and 2014), he holds the record for being the second youngest British person...
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  • Birstall – 11 November 1932, London) was an English chess master who won the British Chess Championship on six occasions. He started a career in accountancy...
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  • the British C2 Championship) (sports car racing) British Athletics Championships British Championship (ice hockey) British Chess Championship British Drift...
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    ChessBase. 5 January 2008. Retrieved 18 November 2010. "2003 British Chess Championship Results". 365chess.com. Saunders, John. "2009 British Chess Championship...
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  • rounds of chess. The 4NCL took over the organisation of the event from 2023. British Chess Championship "Results – Resource". British Rapidplay Chess Championships...
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  • Littlewood (25 May 1931 – 16 September 2009) was for many years a leading British chess player and took the title of national senior champion in 2006. Perhaps...
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    self-taught. In 1977, he became the youngest-ever participant in the British Chess Championship by qualifying through the North West Zonal three days before his...
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    Jonathan Penrose (category Chess Grandmasters)
    chess player, who held the titles Grandmaster (1993) and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1983). He won the British Chess Championship...
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  • The British Schools Chess Championship is an annual competition for school chess teams that has been in existence continuously from 1958. The tournament...
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  • Chess, a strategy board game, is played all over the world. The international governing body of chess is FIDE, established in 1924. Most national chess...
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    Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid sport that combines two traditional disciplines: chess and boxing. Two combatants play alternating rounds of...
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    appendix of the Laws of Chess. The first world championship officially sanctioned by FIDE, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019, brought additional...
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    The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion...
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  • list of all the winners of the Canadian Chess Championship, often referred to as the Canadian Closed Championship to distinguish it from the annual Canadian...
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    Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...
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  • established British Chess Federation, is responsible for the organisation of chess in England, and also organises the annual British Chess Championship on behalf...
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  • Robert Forbes Combe (category Chess Olympiad competitors)
    1952) was a Scottish lawyer and chess player who caused a major upset when he won the 1946 British Chess Championship ahead of several more established...
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    In chess, promotion is the replacement of a pawn with a new piece when the pawn is moved to its last rank. The player replaces the pawn immediately with...
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  • Ken Whyld (category British chess writers)
    Whyld was a strong amateur chess player, taking part in the British Chess Championship in 1956 and winning the county championship of Nottinghamshire. He...
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