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  2. 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 ...

  3. World Chess Championship - Wikipedia

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    The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous champion Ding Liren in the 2024 World Chess Championship. The first event recognized as a world championship was the 1886 match between Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort. Steinitz won ...

  4. Category:World Chess Championships - Wikipedia

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    World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker–Schlechter) ... World Chess Championship 2021, Game 6; F. FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament; H. History of World Chess Championships; I.

  5. Chess' future looms over the world championship, once again ...

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    One of the world’s biggest sporting competitions got underway Monday morning, with reigning champion Ding Liren taking game 1 of the World Chess Championship against 18-year-old phenom Gukesh ...

  6. World Chess Championship 2024 - Wikipedia

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    The win made Gukesh the youngest undisputed World Chess Champion; only Ruslan Ponomariov, the winner of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002, a knock-out style tournament held when there was a divided world chess championship, was a younger world champion. [95]

  7. List of chess games - Wikipedia

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    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. [122]

  8. Here's why world chess champion Magnus Carlsen is ... - AOL

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    Carlsen is the most recognizable name in chess. Even people who don't follow the game may have heard his name. He won the World Chess Championship at 22 years old and has since defended it four times.

  9. List of FIDE chess world number ones - Wikipedia

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    Kasparov was world number one on the official list 52 times over a period of 22 years, and 31 times successively over nearly a decade from July 1996 to January 2006; he was number one 3 times successively over 1.5 years, then 16 times successively over 8 years, then twice successively for one year, and then finally 31 times over 9 years and 9 ...