The 35th Chess Olympiad, a chess tournament for teams
A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard form of chess competition among serious players.
Today, the most recognized chess tournaments for individual competition include the Candidates Tournament, Linares International Chess Tournament (now defunct) and the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The largest team chess tournament is the Chess Olympiad, in which players compete for their country's team in the same fashion as the Olympic Games. Since the 1960s, chess computers have occasionally entered human tournaments, but this is no longer common.
Most chess tournaments are organized and ruled according to the World Chess Federation (FIDE) handbook, which offers guidelines and regulations for conducting tournaments. Chess tournaments are mainly held in either round-robin style, Swiss-system style or elimination style to determine a winning party.
A chesstournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament...
Steel ChessTournament is an annual chesstournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens Tournament from its...
Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chesstournament, held to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2024. The tournament took place...
The Candidates Tournament (or in some periods Candidates Matches) is a chesstournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since...
returned to classical chess at the 2024 Tata Steel ChessTournament and reaffirmed his intention to recontest his title at this World Chess Championship. The...
Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chesstournament to decide the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2023. The tournament took place at...
International Chess Federation) took over administration of the World Championship, beginning with the 1948 World Championship tournament. From 1948 to...
The Tata Steel ChessTournament 2024 was the 86th edition of the annual chesstournament held in Wijk aan Zee from 13–28 January 2024. The competition...
a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of...
the strongest chesstournaments in history. The following list is not intended to be an exhaustive or definitive record of tournamentchess, but takes as...
The Tata Steel ChessTournament 2023 was the 85th edition of the annual chesstournament held in Wijk aan Zee. It was held from 13 January to 29 January...
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...
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...
Linares International ChessTournament (Spanish: Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de Linares) was an annual chesstournament, usually played around...
American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,...
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...
The Grand Chess Tour (GCT) is a circuit of chesstournaments where players compete for multiple prize pools. Major tournaments that have been featured...
in 2016, won the US Chess Championship. By winning the FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15, Caruana qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2016, where he placed...
Norway Chess is an annual closed chesstournament, typically taking place in the May to June time period every year. The first edition took place in the...
elite level in classical chess at 125 games. A chess prodigy, Carlsen finished first in the C group of the Corus chesstournament shortly after he turned...
The Chess World Cup 2023 was a 206-player single-elimination chesstournament that took place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 30 July to 24 August 2023. It was...
(1931–2016) was another to be labelled a prodigy by chess writers. He played his first international tournament (Madrid 1943) at the age of 11 and went on to...
Candidates Tournament. After sixteen games, including four rapid games, Anand retained his title. The match, held under the auspices of the World Chess Federation...
The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...
The Candidates Tournament 2014 was an eight-player double round-robin chesstournament that took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from 13 March to 31...
The Candidates Tournament 2016 was an eight-player double round-robin chesstournament, held in Moscow, Russia, from 11 to 30 March 2016. The winner,...
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