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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 ...
FIDE publishes lists of highest-rated junior chess players; a "junior" is defined as being a player who is aged under 20 at the start of the year. The following is a list of the players ranked number one junior in the FIDE rating system from July 1999 to the present day, along with their ratings during the periods in question.
The two played three more subsequent championships in World Chess Championship 1986 (won by Kasparov, 12½–11½), World Chess Championship 1987 (drawn 12–12, Kasparov retained the title), and World Chess Championship 1990 (won by Kasparov, 12½–11½). In the five tournaments, Kasparov and Karpov played a total of 144 World Championship ...
List of World Chess Championships; FIDE World Chess Championships (1998–2004) 0–9. ... Carlsen versus Nepomniachtchi, World Chess Championship 2021, Game 6; F.
It was the first decisive classical game in a World Chess Championship in more than five years, ending the longest-ever streak of 19 draws in consecutive World Chess Championship classical games, [121] and the 136-move game became the longest in the history of the World Chess Championship.
Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest world chess champion on Thursday after beating reigning champion Ding Liren in the final match of the World Chess Championship in Singapore.. The 18-year-old ...
Ding's rating fell from 2788 (at the time of the World Chess Championship 2023) to 2728, while his world ranking fell from world number 3 to world number 23. His poor results led several chess grandmasters to express concern about Ding's overall ability to defend his world championship title, notably Fabiano Caruana , Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru ...
In the chess community, this month will be remembered for only one thing: Magnus Carlsen vs. Hans Niemann. The reigning world chess champion and a top-50 ranked grandmaster have spent the past few ...