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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 ...
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 Rapid Chess Championship 2022 was the 2022 edition of the annual World Rapid Chess Championship held by FIDE to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. Since 2012, FIDE has held the World Rapid and Blitz Championships at a joint tournament.
The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022 (WFRCC) was the second official world championship in Fischer Random Chess (also known as Chess960). [1] [2] The competition followed a similar format to the first championship in 2019, with qualifying stages open to all interested participants taking place online on chess.com and Lichess, and four qualified players joined four invited ...
The Chess World Championship is an extraordinary, singular event. Its first edition was held 138 years ago but, in that time, just 17 players have become world champion. “Chess demands total ...
The 2024 World Chess Championship is set to kick off this week, a showdown between 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju of India and reigning champion Ding Liren of China. ... However, in 2022 Carlsen’s ...
World Rapid Chess Championship: Almaty: Swiss: 26–28 Dec: 178: Magnus Carlsen: Vincent Keymer: ... 2022 FIDE World Team Championship: Jerusalem: Groups and play ...
The 2022 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess tournament to decide the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2023.The tournament took place at the Palacio de Santoña in Madrid, Spain, from June 16 to July 5, 2022, [2] with the World Championship finishing in April 2023. [3]