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The World Chess Championship 2021 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi to determine the World Chess Champion. It was held under the auspices of FIDE and played during Expo 2020 at Dubai Exhibition Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between 24 November and 12 December 2021 ...
The longest game played in a world championship is the 6th game of the 2021 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi, which Carlsen won in 136 moves by resignation. The game lasted nearly 8 hours.
After Nepomniachtchi resigned following Carlsen's 136th move, it became the longest game in the 135-year history of the World Chess Championship. [1] The previous record for the longest game had been game 5 of the World Chess Championship 1978 played between Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov, which was a 124-move draw.
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 ...
Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest world chess champion on Thursday after beating reigning champion Ding Liren ... his 2021 defense against Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi, drew record-breaking ...
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. [242]
The reigning world chess champion and a top-50 ranked grandmaster have spent the past few weeks embroiled in a bizarre feud centered on Carlsen's apparent belief that Niemann cheated against him ...
Chess World Cup 2021: Single-elimination tournament 12 Jul – 6 Aug 206 (25) Jan-Krzysztof Duda: Sergey Karjakin: Magnus Carlsen: Women's Chess World Cup 2021: Single-elimination tournament 12 Jul – 3 Aug 103 (-) Alexandra Kosteniuk: Aleksandra Goryachkina: Tan Zhongyi: World Chess Championship 2021: Best-of-14 match, with tie breaks 24 Nov ...