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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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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 ...
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]
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 ...
The story is that the world champion Garry Kasparov and challenger Nigel Short both split from FIDE in the lead up to the '93 championship, forming the Professional Chess Association (PCA). The issue is that this organization only existed for three years from '93 to '96, after which there was no formal organization that oversaw what we call the ...
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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]