Israeli Chess Championship information

The Israeli Chess Championship is a chess event held every year in Israel. From 1951 to 1971, the men's and women's championships were held every two...

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...

The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE...

The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. Prior to 2012...

The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition)...

World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an event held periodically since 1974 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is...

challenger for the World Chess Championship. The winner of the Candidates earns the right to a match for the World Championship against the incumbent world...

return to Israel and be granted Israeli citizenship. Chess is a leading sport in Israel. There are many Israeli grandmasters and Israeli chess players have...

World Chess Championship 2013 was a match between reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Magnus Carlsen, to determine the World Chess Champion...

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

Emil Sutovsky (born 19 September 1977) is an Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1996. Sutovsky is the FIDE CEO since...

the world. Tamir won the Israeli Chess Championship for the first time in Acre, Israel in 2013. Tamir qualified for the Chess World Cup 2015, but lost...

and Israeli chess player, teacher, and artist. She holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). A former chess prodigy...

The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve...

Atuda. At the 1990 Israeli Chess Championship, he finished in third place. In 1993, at the age of 23, he received a GM title in chess. Kosashvili previously...

supranational chess organizations are also affiliated with FIDE. The table below lists the member federations of FIDE and their national championship. The number...

and Evgeny Postny in the World Team Championship. In December 2022, he finished 6th in the Israeli Chess Championship. In July 2023, he was defeated by...

World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from 12 September 2007 to 30 September 2007 to decide the world champion of the game of chess. It...

controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. Armageddon chess is a particular variation...

title of grandmaster a few months later. At 15, he won the Norwegian Chess Championship, and later became the youngest ever player to qualify for the Candidates...

used by the Israeli security forces and police. Chess is a leading sport in Israel. There are many Israeli grandmasters and Israeli chess players have...

refuse to face Israelis at World Chess Championships". The Jerusalem Post. "Egyptian judoka refuses to shake hands with Israeli judoka: Israeli Foreign Ministry"...

active in chess. He participated in several chess tournaments held in Tel Aviv. In 1951, Israel Kniazer participated in the Israeli Chess Championship and finished...

FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 was a chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the World Chess Champion. At the time the World Chess Champion title...

Firouzja left the Iranian Chess Federation in 2019 because of the country's longstanding policy against competing with Israeli players. Firouzja played...

Union) is an Israeli chess grandmaster. He was the World Under-12 champion in 1990. Boris Avrukh has played for Israel six times in Chess Olympiads. In...

The World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) is an annual competition in the solving of chess problems (also known as chess puzzles) organized by the World...

The European Team Championship (often abbreviated in texts and games databases as ETC) is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation...

The 1948 World Chess Championship was a quintuple round-robin tournament played to determine the new World Chess Champion following the death of the previous...