Magnus Carlsen recently declared he will not defend his world championship title in classical chess. This means when a new champion is declared later this year, he will no longer be eligible to win all three of the main chess championships in the same calendar year. A number of people are ...
1886-1899 = First years of official world championship matches prior to 20th century. 1900-1947 = Official championships in the first half of the 20th century. 1948-1972 = Official championships in 20th century after the WWII interruption / interregnum up to Bobby Fischer's championship. 1973-19...
Magnus Carlsen - World Champion Finally We have a winner. Congratulations to the Champion! For more information visit hissite. Sochi 2014 Welcome to World Chess Championship in Sochi. You can watch all matches live on official web site orWiki. ...
Iran wins gold at 2015 Youth & Cadets Chess World Championship Almost 1,600 chess players from 92 countries took part at the FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 in Greece. India dominated the event, winning 11 medals, among them 5 gold. Iran and Bulgaria complete the top three with...
last qualifying cycle of theWorld Chess Championship. The participants are the top players of theinterzonaltournament plus possibly other players selected on the basis of rating or performance in the previous candidates tournament. The top ranking player(s) qualify(ies) for the world championship. ...
Bobby Fischer (left) at a press conference in Amsterdam with FIDE president Max Euwe, January 1972. Fischer made headlines around the world when he defeated Boris Spassky at the World Chess Championship later that year Image Credit: Photographer Bert Verhoeff, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons ...
1992–firsttimea?microcomputer,the?ChessMachine?Gideon3.1?byEdSchr?derfromTheNetherlands,winsthe7th?WorldComputerChessChampionship?infrontof?mainframes,?supercomputers?andspecialhardware. 1993–?DeepBlue?losesafour-gamematchagainst?BentLarsen. 1994–firsttimeachessprogram(ChessGenius)defeatedaWorldChampion(GarryKas...
“These entities expend no time, effort, or money of their own in organizing, producing, or hosting the chess events for the World Championship and instead reap economic benefit from free-riding on the work and effort of World Chess.”– Reuters However, just as with their loss in Moscow,...
WikiMatrix Chessis a widely popular pastime in Russia; from 1927,Russiangrandmasters have held the worldchess championshipalmost continuously. WikiMatrix Does the same kind of inheritance account for whyRussian chessplayers have won the worldchampionshipmany times over?
10. O Gadia vs E Stenzel ½-½ 47 1960 Brazilian Championship A04 Reti Opening 11. E Stenzel vs G Bibas 1-0 26 1960 Brazilian Championship C28 Vienna Game 12. E Asfora vs E Stenzel 1-0 38 1960 Brazilian Championship E17 Queen's Indian 13. E Stenzel vs C Ary 0-1 40 1960 Br...