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The World Open chess tournament is an annual open chess tournament usually held in Philadelphia. The inaugural event was held in New York in 1973 with 732 players, and was won by Walter Browne . The tournament is divided into different sections, with typically 100–200 players in the top section.
The 2024 FIDE Circuit is a system comprising the top chess tournaments in 2024, which serves as a qualification path for the Candidates Tournament 2026.Players receive points based on their performance and the strength of the tournament.
In October 2009, chess Grandmaster Humpy Koneru (then female world No. 2) accused the AICF secretary DV Sundar of preventing her from participating in the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The same year the AICF was accused of arbitrarily banning grandmaster G N Gopal [ 12 ] for not playing in a match (the ban was subsequently revoked).
The 35th Chess Olympiad, a chess tournament for teams. A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard form of chess competition among multiple serious players.
For the first time in the history of Chess Olympiads, no European team won a medal in the Open event. [ 71 ] The challenger in the World Chess Championship 2024 Gukesh Dommaraju of India achieved the highest rating performance of 3056 in the Open event after scoring 9 out of a possible 10 points (eight wins and two draws) on board one.
Interzonal of the World Chess Championship (most years, 1948–1993) USSR Chess Championship (most years) Linares International Chess Tournament (1981–2010) Reggio Emilia chess tournament; World Chess Championship 2007; Pearl Spring chess tournament (Nanjing, 2008) M-Tel Masters (Sofia) Tal Memorial (Moscow, 2009–2013) Bilbao Chess Masters ...
Tata Steel Chess India 2018 was the inaugural event of the Tata Steel Chess India. Hikaru Nakamura won the rapid section of the tournament, while former World Champion Viswanathan Anand won the blitz section by winning the blitz playoffs against Nakamura after they finished joint first in the blitz double round robin.
Judit Polgár, widely acknowledged as the greatest female chess player in history, has won the most high-level open tournaments among women by far. Some of her strongest victories in classical came in the four-player double round-robin Crown division in Hoogeveen, where she won four times and regularly faced competition averaging near or above ...