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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 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]
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 ...
Sardinia World Chess Festival Orosei, Sardinia: Apr 27 – May 4 168 2658 + 1 ⁄ 2: Daniel Dardha: Dubai Police Global Chess Challenge Dubai: May 3–13 135 2694 + 3 ⁄ 8: Pranav V: GCT Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz Warsaw: May 6–13 Rapid & Blitz 10 2762 + 3 ⁄ 8: Magnus Carlsen: Chinese Chess Championship: Xinghua: May 6–16 National 12 ...
The 2024 World Blitz Chess Championship was the 4th edition of the annual chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE has held the World Rapid and Blitz Championships at a joint tournament.
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The World Chess Championship 2023 was a chess match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren to determine the new World Chess Champion. The match took place in Astana , Kazakhstan , from 9 April to 30 April 2023, and was a best of 14 games, plus tiebreaks.
The FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2024 was an eight-player chess tournament held to determine the challenger for the Women's World Chess Championship 2025. It was held from 3 April to 22 April 2024 in Toronto, Canada, alongside the Candidates Tournament 2024. [1] [2] It was a double round-robin tournament. [3]