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2. Chess World Cup 2017 - Wikipedia

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   The Chess World Cup 2017 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 2 to 27 September 2017. It was won by Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian . This was the second time he had won the Chess World Cup , 12 years after his first win in 2005 .

3. 2017 in chess - Wikipedia

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   This article details the year of 2017 with respect to the game of chess.Major chess-related events that took place in 2017 include the Women's World Chess Championship 2017 knockout tournament, the Chess World Cup, the FIDE Grand Prix Series, and the abolishing of the consecutiveness requirement within the fivefold repetition rule.

4. Chess World Cup - Wikipedia

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   The FIDE World Cup is a major chess event organized by FIDE, the international governing body.Three different formats have been used: In 2000 and 2002, it was a multi-stage tournament, with a group stage consisting of 24 players in four groups, followed by a knockout stage.

5. Viswanathan Anand - Wikipedia

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   Chess World Cup 2017: Anand played in the Chess World Cup 2017 a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 2 to 27 September 2017. Anand was eliminated in the second round, losing to the Canadian Grandmaster Anton Kovalyov. Kovalyov won the first game with the black pieces after a dubious sacrifice from ...

6. Candidates Tournament - Wikipedia

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   Before 1950, the champion had the right to handpick a challenger. However, a number of tournaments acted as de facto candidates tournaments: The London 1883 chess tournament established Johannes Zukertort and Wilhelm Steinitz as the best two players in the world, and was one of the important events leading to the first official world championship match between the two, in 1886.

7. List of World Chess Championships - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

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9. Anton Kovalyov - Wikipedia

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   His silver-medal winning performance on board 2 was second only to that of the former world champion, Vladimir Kramnik, of Russia. [15] At the Chess World Cup 2017, Kovalyov defeated Varuzhan Akobian and former world champion Viswanathan Anand in the first and second rounds, and was due to face Maxim Rodshtein in the third. [16]