The FIDEWorldChessChampionship 1998 was contested in a match between the FIDEWorld Champion Anatoly Karpov and the challenger Viswanathan Anand. The...
The WorldChessChampionship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...
participate, most notably FIDEWorld Champion Anatoly Karpov. The events were held at a similar time as the FIDEWorldChessChampionship1996, with many of the...
Since 2012, FIDE has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the World Rapid & Blitz ChessChampionships. FIDE also holds...
chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess...
splitting from FIDE, the official world governing body of chess, and playing their title match under the auspices of the Professional Chess Association....
Professional Chess Association (PCA) split from FIDE, and as a result there were two competing WorldChampionship titles between 1993 and 2006. Chess was first...
Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion. Kamsky reached the final of the FIDEWorldChessChampionship1996 at the age of 22...
The WorldChessChampionship 2026 will be a chess match to determine the new WorldChess Champion. It will be played between the defending champion (the...
The World Amateur ChessChampionship is a tournament organised by FIDE and Amateur Chess Organisation (ACO). The world governing body intended to promote...
seven chess players have been the chessworld number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. The first world number...
popular chess variant in which the positions of pieces on the players' home ranks are randomized with certain constraints. Prior to 2019 FIDE did not...
The World Senior ChessChampionship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the WorldChess Federation. Originally, the minimum age...
The World Youth ChessChampionship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve...
In 2008, FIDE added Chess960 to an appendix of the Laws of Chess. The first worldchampionship officially sanctioned by FIDE, the FIDEWorld Fischer Random...
old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the WorldChess Federation (FIDE). The idea was the brainchild of William Ritson-Morry, who organized...
the World ChessChampionship 2007: an eight-player tournament which included FIDEWorld Champion Veselin Topalov, but not "Classical" World Champion Vladimir...
The Classical WorldChessChampionship 2000, known at the time as the Braingames WorldChessChampionships, was held from 8 October 2000 – 4 November 2000...
The international chess governing body FIDE grants several titles, the most prestigious of which is Grandmaster; many national chess federations also grant...
The Professional Chess Association (PCA), which existed between 1993 and 1996, was a rival organisation to FIDE, the international chess organization. The...
organized by the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), previously by FIDE via the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC)...
The International Chess Federation or WorldChess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ˈfiːdeɪ/ FEE-day Fédération Internationale...
The World Rapid ChessChampionship 2022 was the 2022 edition of the annual World Rapid ChessChampionship held by FIDE to determine the world champion...
The Asian ChessChampionship is a chess tournament open to all players from Asian chess federations (FIDE zones from 3.1 to 3.8). It's held with the Swiss...
are 42 female chess players who hold the title of Grandmaster (GM), the highest title awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The Grandmaster...
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Anatoly Karpov
Gata Kamsky
Boris Gelfand