1998 in chess information

events in chess in 1998, as well as the top ten FIDE rated chess players in July of that year. FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating - July 1998 Garry Kasparov...

The FIDE World Chess Championship 1998 was contested in a match between the FIDE World Champion Anatoly Karpov and the challenger Viswanathan Anand. The...

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...

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...

Virtual Chess 64 is a chess simulation game for the Nintendo 64. It was released in 1998. It is the third and final game in the Virtual Chess series....

to chess: Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid). In a chess...

were considered too trivial for inclusion in the catalogue. The chess variants listed below are derived from chess by changing one or more of the many rules...

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...

notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...

Losing chess is one of the most popular chess variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère...

This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order. Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin. For...

Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to...

Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess, originally published in five volumes from...

The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing...

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...

ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess...

Justus D. Williams (born 25 May 1998) is an American chess player who holds the title of International Master (IM). He has a peak FIDE rating of 2420....

11 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...

The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...

American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,...

Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles...

There are 42 female chess players who hold the title of Grandmaster (GM), the highest title awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The Grandmaster...

Severin From (1825–1895), Danish chess master Sigfred From (1925–1998), Danish chess master From, a preposition From (SQL), computing language keyword...

1998 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1998. 1998 (MCMXCVIII)...

world chess capital. The complex has been used to host visiting dignitaries like the Dalai Lama. Completed in 1998, the idea and development of Chess City...