Events of 1999inchess include the list of top chess players and news. FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating - January 1999; Garry Kasparov Russia 2812 Viswanathan...
The FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 was held at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip between 31 July and 28 August 1999. The championship was won by...
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms inchess, in alphabetical order. Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin. For...
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...
The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory. The other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. Many...
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion inchess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...
bad or good are ubiquitous inchess literature. Some publications intended for an international audience, such as the Chess Informant, have a wide range...
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...
(born 2 June 1999) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. Wei became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 8 months and 23 days, the 9th youngest in history. He...
A chess rating system is a system used inchess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by...
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...
Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess grandmaster. Polgár was Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. On FIDE's Elo rating system list of...
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...
A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for the game of chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age. Their prodigious...
Book and the FIDE Chess Profile show the title award was in1999. Di Felice and IM application give Aravindh's birth date as 11 Sep 1999, GM application...
September 1999) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He won the Indian chess championships twice, in 2018 and 2019. Aravindh was born in Thirunagar in1999. His...
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...
organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition. FIDE...
The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: c4 A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases...
Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to...
A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. The first...
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens Tournament...
GNU Chess is a free software chess engine and command-line interface chessboard. The goal of GNU Chess is to serve as a basis for research, and as such...
(born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach and commentator who has been the FIDE Director for Chess Development since September 2022...
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...
Kasparov versus the World was a game of chess played in1999 over the Internet. It was a consultation game, in which a World Team of thousands decided...
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