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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.
Tournament City System Dates Teams Winner Runner-up Third 44th Chess Olympiad : Chennai: Swiss: 26 Jul – 9 Aug: 188 Uzbekistan Armenia: India-2: 44th Chess Olympiad (women event) Swiss: 26 Jul – 9 Aug: 162 Ukraine Georgia India: 2022 FIDE World Team Championship: Jerusalem: Groups and play-offs: 20–25 Nov: 12 China Uzbekistan Spain
The tournament was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan from 29–30 December 2022, [1] using a Swiss-system with 21 rounds for the open tournament and 17 rounds for the women's tournament. Players eligible to participate were to either be rated at least 2550 Elo (2250 Elo for women) in a FIDE rating list during 2022, or be a reigning national champion ...
In October 2022, he became a champion of the Canadian International Open held at Contrecoeur near Montreal. [15] Liang scored 7/9 at the 2022 North American Open and tied for second by beating the 2022 World Open Champion GM Antipov in the final round. [16] In April 2023 it was announced that he won the US Chess 2022 Grand Prix with 222.68 ...
The open section of the tournament was contested by a record number of 188 teams, representing 186 nations. India, as host country, fielded three teams. [1] The tournament featured five out of the top ten players from the FIDE rating list published in July 2022. World Champion Magnus Carlsen played on the top board for his native Norway. [8]
The tournament was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan from 26–28 December 2022, [1] using a Swiss-system with 13 rounds for the open tournament and 11 rounds for the women's tournament. Players eligible to participate in the open tournament were either be rated at least 2550 Elo in a FIDE rating list during 2022, or reigning national champion. [2]
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 ...
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations compete in an Olympic-style event. [1] [2] The first unofficial edition, labelled as the "Chess Olympic Games", was held in Paris in 1924, and coincided with the Summer Olympic Games that took place in the city in the same year. [3]