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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 ...
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 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]
India's grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju (R) reacts after winning against China's chess grandmaster Ding Liren in game 14 of the 2024 FIDE World Championship in Singapore on December 12, 2024.
The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The match took place in the Laugardalshöll in Reykjavík, Iceland, and has been dubbed the Match of the Century. Fischer became the first American-born ...
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.
The win made Gukesh the youngest undisputed World Chess Champion; only Ruslan Ponomariov, the winner of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002, a knock-out style tournament held when there was a divided world chess championship, was a younger world champion. [95]
The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. Prior to 2012, FIDE gave such recognition to a limited number of tournaments, with non-FIDE recognized tournaments annually naming a world rapid champion of their own.