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The World Chess Championship 2024, officially known as the World Chess Championship 2024 presented by Google for sponsorship reasons, [ 1 ][ 2 ] will be a match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh Dommaraju to determine the World Chess Champion. The match is set to take place between 25 November and 13 ...
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship 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 already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
The provisional total budget for the Chess Olympiad was €16.6 million, including €9 million for event services and operations as well as the hosting fee. [15] In June 2021, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich, together with the president of the Hungarian Chess Federation László Szabó and the executive director of the National Sports Agency of Hungary Attila Mihok, signed the contract in ...
US Chess Championship: St. Louis: October 11–23 National 12 2727 WR Chess Masters Cup London: October 14–17 16 2754 Arjun Erigaisi: Chennai Grand Masters Chennai: November 5–11 European Chess Championship: Petrovac: November 7–20 FIDE World Chess Championship: Singapore: November 20 – December 15 FIDE International President Cup ...
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic , FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and 2021 , with a rapid time control that affected players' online ratings.
[11] [12] In March 2024 she was the world no. 1 under-10 girl. [13] In July 2024, Sivanandan was selected for England's women's team for the 45th Chess Olympiad, in Budapest, Hungary in September. [14] This made her the youngest person to ever be chosen for a full England team in any sport. [15]
The players affected in the 2024 Candidates are R Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi and Gukesh Dommaraju from India, and Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura from the United States. The former three all faced one another in rounds 1–3 and 8–10, while the latter two faced each other in rounds 1 and 8. FIDE announced pairings for the tournament ...
Arjun Erigaisi (born 3 September 2003) [1] is an Indian chess grandmaster and India's highest ranked player as of September 2024, overtaking former world champion Viswanathan Anand. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 13 days, making him the 32nd youngest person ever to achieve the title of ...