The WorldChessChampionship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...
The World Blitz ChessChampionship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE...
The World Junior ChessChampionship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition)...
World Computer ChessChampionship (WCCC) is an event held periodically since 1974 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is...
and Sasikiran Krishnan (India). WorldChessChampionship Asian SeniorChessChampionship List of Qualifiers for the World Cup 2007 Archived 2008-04-12 at...
Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since...
second in the European SeniorChessChampionship (over-50) of 2015 in Eretria, Greece, and first in the WorldSeniorChessChampionship (over-65 section) in...
appendix of the Laws of Chess. The first worldchampionship officially sanctioned by FIDE, the FIDE World Fischer Random ChessChampionship 2019, brought additional...
it being a rapid chess game. The longest game played in a worldchampionship is the 6th game of the 2021 WorldChessChampionship between Magnus Carlsen...
A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank. Such titles are usually granted...
The European Individual ChessChampionship is a chess tournament organised by the European Chess Union. It was established in 2000 and has since then taken...
The European SeniorChessChampionship is a chess tournament for seniorchess players organised by the European Chess Union (ECU). Beginning in 2001, entry...
grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing body, FIDE. Other than world champion, it...
year, the first worldchampionship fight was held in Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Dutch Boxing Association as well as the Dutch Chess Federation and...
of WorldChess Champions Interzonal World Junior ChessChampionshipWorldSeniorChessChampionshipWorldChess Solving ChampionshipWorld Team Chess Championship...
activity is organizing the WorldChessChampionship since 1948. FIDE also organizes worldchampionships for women, juniors, seniors, and the disabled. Another...
At age 75, he won the 2006 WorldSeniorChessChampionship and became the oldest person ever to be ranked among the world's top 100 players. Korchnoi was...
Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian chess Grandmaster (2003), arbiter of the republican category (1997). Two-time worldseniorchess champion: Bad Zwischenahn (2003)...
then-reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov in a game that has become part of Filipino chess history. In 1982 he gained a spot in the WorldChessChampionship candidates...
Chess has risen in popularity in India in the last few decades primarily due to chess Grandmaster and former 5-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand....
titles, sanctions over twenty national championships annually, and publishes two magazines: Chess Life and Chess Life for Kids. The USCF was founded and...
in 1886 was the first chess player generally recognized as the worldchess champion. Other sports with early 'worldchampionships' were English draughts...
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