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  2. List of World Chess Championships - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. World Chess Championship - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of world records in chess - Wikipedia

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    The longest game played in a world championship is the 6th game of the 2021 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi, which Carlsen won in 136 moves by resignation. The game lasted for 8 hours, 15 minutes and 40 seconds. [4]

  5. World Chess Championship 1972 - Wikipedia

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    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 arena in Reykjavík , Iceland , and has been dubbed the Match of the Century .

  6. Category:World Chess Championships - Wikipedia

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    0–9. World Chess Championship 1886; World Chess Championship 1889; World Chess Championship 1890–1891; World Chess Championship 1892; World Chess Championship 1894

  7. Chess' future looms over the world championship, once again ...

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    One of the world’s biggest sporting competitions got underway Monday morning, with reigning champion Ding Liren taking game 1 of the World Chess Championship against 18-year-old phenom Gukesh ...

  8. Category:World chess champions - Wikipedia

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    View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... World Chess Championship ... Pages in category "World chess champions"

  9. World Chess Championship 2023 - Wikipedia

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    The only two previous times in chess history where an undisputed world championship was played without the defending champion were in 1948 and 1975. The World Chess Championship 1948 was a five-player tournament held without the previous champion Alexander Alekhine , who had died in 1946. [ 15 ]