Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 2013 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess double round-robin tournament that took place in the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Savoy Place, London, from 15 March to 1 April 2013. [1]
Before 1950, the champion had the right to handpick a challenger. However, a number of tournaments acted as de facto candidates tournaments: The London 1883 chess tournament established Johannes Zukertort and Wilhelm Steinitz as the best two players in the world, and was one of the important events leading to the first official world championship match between the two, in 1886.
Tournament Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third 2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament: 12–27 January: 14: Magnus Carlsen: Levon Aronian: Viswanathan Anand: 2013 Zurich Chess Challenge: 23 February – 1 March: 4: Fabiano Caruana: Viswanathan Anand: Vladimir Kramnik: 2013 Candidates Tournament: 15 March – 1 April: 8: Magnus Carlsen: Vladimir ...
Candidates Tournament 1950; Candidates Tournament 1953; Candidates Tournament 1956; Candidates Tournament 1959; Candidates Tournament 1962; Candidates Tournament 2013; Candidates Tournament 2014; Candidates Tournament 2016; Candidates Tournament 2018; Candidates Tournament 2020–2021; Candidates Tournament 2022; Candidates Tournament 2024
The challenger was determined in the 2013 Candidates Tournament, which was a double round-robin tournament. (This was the first time in 51 years that the round-robin format had been used for a Candidates, [ 3 ] though it had been used for the 2005 (FIDE) and 2007 World championships).
Qualification and alternative qualification paths for the Candidates Tournament 2026. Unlike any other Candidates Tournaments, and any FIDE World Championship cycle (except 1999–2004 during the split-title period), there is no automatic spot for the runner-up of the previous Championship ().
The Chess World Cup 2013 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, played between 11 August and 2 September 2013, in the hotel Scandic Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway. [1] [2] It was won by Vladimir Kramnik, who defeated Dmitry Andreikin 2½–1½ in the final match. [3] The finalists qualified for the 2014 Candidates Tournament.
The 1971/72 edition of the Niemeyer junior tournament, held every year since 1962/63 in Groningen, is formally adopted by FIDE as the 1st European Junior Chess Championship. The winner is the young Hungarian Gyula Sax , who follows in the footsteps of compatriots Andras Adorjan and Zoltán Ribli , the winners of the previous two Niemeyer ...