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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 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 ...
In January 2010 former World Champion Boris Spassky criticized the current emphasis on ratings rather than World Champions. [3] Although Spassky was World Champion during the inception of the FIDE rankings in 1971, he never became the number-one rated player in the world; since July 1971 he, Vladimir Kramnik, Ding Liren, and Gukesh Dommaraju ...
At the 2021 World Chess Championship, Carlsen defeated challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi in Game 6 after drawing the first five games. It was the first decisive result in a classical time limit World Chess Championship game in more than 5 years and at 136 moves was also the longest game in World Chess Championship history. [241]
After the 1972 World Chess Championship, Fischer did not play a competitive game in public for nearly 20 years. [387] In 1977 he published three games he played against the MIT Greenblatt computer program, winning them all. [388] [389] He moved to the Los Angeles area and associated with the Worldwide Church of God for a time. [390]
William Lombardy is the only player ever to achieve a perfect score in the World Junior Chess Championship, open to players under the age of 20 as of January 1 in the year of competition. He scored 11–0 at Toronto 1957 .
The record was previously held by chess legend Garry Kasparov, who was 22 years old when he won his first world title in 1985. The 18-year-old is also just the second Indian player to have claimed ...
Women's world chess champions (17 P) Pages in category "World chess champions" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.