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2 days ago · 2024. 2026. The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 2023 World Chess Championship. Magnus Carlsen, the previous world champion, had declined to defend his title.
- World Chess960 Championship
2009 World Chess960 champion Hikaru Nakamura at Mainz. The...
- World Chess960 Championship
3 days ago · The British Home Championship (historically known as the British International Championship or simply the International Championship) was an annual football competition contested between the United Kingdom's four national teams: England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland (the last of whom competed as Northern Ireland starting from the late 1950s). Beginning during the 1883–84 season, it is the ...
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1 day ago · Discuss anything you like about chess related matters in this forum. The very latest International round up of English news. Debate directly related to English Chess Federation matters. Last post Re: British Chess Championshi…. Historical knowledge and information regarding our great game.
3 days ago · 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. From India it spread to Persia, where it was modified in terms of shapes and rules and ...
5 days ago · 56 of the 66 games played in the 1925 British Chess Championship, played in Stratford-upon-Avon, plus 29 from lower sections. Latest: Added two games from subsidiary sections: (1) W.Watts 1-0 F.Short (Major Open, rd 7); (2) W.Hooper 1-0 F.Wilkinson (First Class B). Many thanks to Gerard Killoran who submitted them via the English Chess Forum.
1 day ago · 1 2 3 4 5. Follow the live chess ratings of the best chess players in the world (Carlsen, Caruana, Mamedyarov...). See the weekly changes on ratings and how the rankings change.
6 days ago · Find out which football teams are leading the pack or at the foot of the table in the Championship on BBC Sport.
