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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 ...
At the time the championship was called the Braingames World Chess Championship, but Kramnik later referred to himself as the Classical World Chess Champion. Meanwhile, FIDE had decided to scrap the Interzonal and Candidates system, instead having a large knockout event in which a large number of players contested short matches against each ...
The youngest player to obtain a perfect score in a National Blitz Chess Championship anywhere in the world is Jack Mizzi, who in September 2023 won 9/9 games at the Malta Open Blitz Championship, with a performance rating of 2602, [69] when he was 17 years 4 months old. [70] [71] [72]
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. [241]
Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest world chess champion on Thursday after beating reigning champion Ding Liren in the final match of the World Chess Championship in Singapore. The 18-year-old ...
Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, [2] a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion and a two-time Chess World Cup Champion. [3] He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and he has the eighth-highest peak FIDE rating of all time. [4] In 2022, he was the elected Deputy President of FIDE. [5] [6]
Kasparov was world number one on the official list 52 times over a period of 22 years, and 31 times successively over nearly a decade from July 1996 to January 2006; he was number one 3 times successively over 1.5 years, then 16 times successively over 8 years, then twice successively for one year, and then finally 31 times over 9 years and 9 ...
Carlsen is the most recognizable name in chess. Even people who don't follow the game may have heard his name. He won the World Chess Championship at 22 years old and has since defended it four times.