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6 days ago · 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 player, an event explicitly held to decide a world champion did not take place until 1886.
6 days ago · This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (January 2021) The 12th-century Lewis chessmen in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India ; its prehistory is the subject of speculation ...
2 days ago · He first qualified for the USSR Chess Championship at age 15 in 1978, the youngest-ever player at that level. He won the 64-player Swiss system tournament at Daugavpils on a tie-break over Igor V. Ivanov to capture the sole qualifying place.
1 day ago · The Chess.com Chess960 Championship Finals start Friday, June 21, at 12 p.m. ET / 18:00 CEST / 9:30 p.m. IST. The Chess960 Championship is the second event in the Chess.com Community Championships, a series of tournaments open to all Chess.com players. The first, the Hyperbullet Chess Championship, was won by GM Andrew Tang.
4 days ago · Eight-time British champion GM Michael Adams, 52, and England’s Olympiad team players GM Gawain Jones, 36, and GM Luke McShane, 40, are the top seeds for one or both competitions.
4 days ago · New York – June 17, 2024 - Chess enthusiasts should get ready for an unforgettable experience as the most intensive global chess event - FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships - are coming to the Big Apple in the last week of December for the first time in history! This globally renowned tournament celebrated as one of the most eagerly anticipated, most exciting and most followed in ...
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5 days ago · Participants of the World Corporate Championship were treated to an evening with the renowned chess player Nona Gaprindashvili—five-time women’s world champion, the first woman to receive a grandmaster title, and the winner of 11 gold medals in Chess Olympiads.
