2011 in chess information

Below is a list of events in chess during the year 2011: January 1 – Magnus Carlsen (NOR) reclaims the top position in the FIDE world rankings with an...

The World Chess Championship 2012 was a chess match between the defending World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner...

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...

A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by...

Battle Chess is a video game version of chess with 2.5D graphics and fighting animations showing the result of one piece moving onto the square of another...

The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess World Cup tournament. It was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 26 August and 21 September...

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...

Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat...

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2011 was the 73rd edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Known until 2010 as the Corus Chess Tournament, it was renamed...

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

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...

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...

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...

Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls...

Cheating in chess is a deliberate violation of the rules of chess or other behaviour that is intended to give an unfair advantage to a player or team....

rounds of blitz chess and boxing until one wins by checkmate or knockout. It is also possible to win by time penalty as in normal chess, and by boxing...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens Tournament...

as GothamChess, is an American chess International Master, content creator, commentator, and author. Often referred to as "The Internet's Chess Teacher"...

Canada at the Women's Chess Olympiad since 2014. Zhou began playing chess in France at age three before growing up primarily in Finland and Canada. She...

chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. He is the highest-rated Chinese chess player in history and also a three-time Chinese Chess Champion...

of unorthodox chess, from fairy chess problems and chess variants (including historical and regional ones), and the six orthodox chess pieces. The columns...