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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 ...
The event is a Swiss tournament usually restricted to players who have established peak ratings over 2200, plus high rated junior players, at the discretion of the organizer. As a primarily masters-only event, the U.S. Masters is one of the strongest Swiss tournaments in the U.S., offering FIDE title norms and large cash prizes to participants ...
World Chess Championship 1948; Interzonal of the World Chess Championship (most years, 1948–1993) USSR Chess Championship (most years) Linares International Chess Tournament (1981–2010) Reggio Emilia chess tournament; World Chess Championship 2007; Pearl Spring chess tournament (Nanjing, 2008) M-Tel Masters (Sofia) Tal Memorial (Moscow ...
The names of the tournament winners have been included next to the year and venue. Many of the tournaments have had books written about them and whilst these will be mostly out of print, they are occasionally available at online auction sites, second-hand specialist book shops etc.
The United States Chess League (USCL) was the only nationwide chess league in the United States for eleven years. In 2016 the League announced it would be opened to cities from around the world, moved to the website chess.com, and renamed the Professional Rapid Online Chess League .
The United States Chess Championship is an invitational classical chess tournament. Fabiano Caruana: 28 2800 2 Wesley So (defending champion) 26 2778 6 Samuel Sevian: 20 2654 91 Leinier Domínguez: 38 2760 14 Aleksandr Lenderman: 31 2607 >100 Ray Robson: 21 2669 62 Sam Shankland: 30 2714 28 John M. Burke: 19 2554 >100 Dariusz Świercz: 27 2647 ...
This is a list of seasons completed by the Carolina Cobras. The Cobras were a professional arena football franchise of the Arena Football League (AFL), based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The team was established in 2000. The Cobras made the playoffs twice, but did not appear in an ArenaBowl.
The 2017 PRO Chess League Season was the inaugural season of the PRO Chess League. It started on January 11, 2017, and ended March 26. [1] [2] 48 teams participated, twelve of which had previously participated in the USCL. After the end of the first season, the St. Louis Arch Bishops defeated the Norway Gnomes, thus securing their first title. [3]