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The World Chess Network (WCN) was a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess that launched in 1997 and closed ten years later in 2007 when it was bought by Internet Chess Club and merged with Chess Live to form World Chess Live.
World ranking (January 2025) The winner of the 2024 FIDE Circuit [a] Fabiano Caruana: 32 2803 2 The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 [b] TBD TBD The top three finishers in the Chess World Cup 2025 [c] TBD TBD TBD The winner of the 2025 FIDE Circuit [d] TBD Highest rating averaged from August 2025 to January 2026 [e] TBD
The idea behind WCN was to spread chess news all over the world, to show chess players that the effort they put into chess is noticed, and to show non‐chess players that chess inspires and engages all kinds of people: chess is so much more than just an ancient board game.
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 ...
Category: Chess players from Washington, D.C. ... Tom Murphy (chess player) S. Frank Street Jr. This page was last edited on 13 November 2024, at 11:50 (UTC ...
Chess Live; World Chess Network; References This page was last edited on 16 January 2025, at 13:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
This is a list of chess organizations. Chess is played all over the world. Chess is played all over the world. The dominant international governing body of chess is FIDE , which confers titles and conducts world championship tournaments.
The two played three more subsequent championships in World Chess Championship 1986 (won by Kasparov, 12½–11½), World Chess Championship 1987 (drawn 12–12, Kasparov retained the title), and World Chess Championship 1990 (won by Kasparov, 12½–11½). In the five tournaments, Kasparov and Karpov played a total of 144 World Championship ...