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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 ...
Winner Runner-up Third Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2020: Round robin: 10–26 Jan: 14 (11) Fabiano Caruana: Magnus Carlsen: Wesley So: Tata Steel Challengers 2020: Round robin: 10–26 Jan: 14 (0) David Anton Guijarro: Nodirbek Abdusattorov: Pavel Eljanov: Prague Chess Festival 2020: Round robin: 12–21 Feb: 10 (6) Alireza Firouzja: Vidit ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 February 2025. Norwegian chess grandmaster (born 1990) For people with a similar name, see Magnus Carlsson (disambiguation), Magnus Karlsson (disambiguation), and Magnus Carlson. Magnus Carlsen Carlsen in 2024 Full name Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen Country Norway Born (1990-11-30) 30 November 1990 (age 34 ...
The 2024 World Chess Championship is set to kick off this week, ... up from 51 million in January 2020. The world’s biggest chess platform told NBC News that 1 in 10 Americans have an account ...
Since 2005, a different event of the same name has been part of the World Chess Championship cycle. This event is being held every two years. It is a 128-player knockout tournament, in the same style as the Tilburg tournament between 1992 and 1994, or the 1998 , 1999 , 2000 , 2002 and 2004 FIDE World Championships .
The 2020–2021 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess double-round-robin tournament to decide the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2021, played in Yekaterinburg, Russia. [1] Ian Nepomniachtchi won the tournament with a round to spare and earned the right to challenge the defending world champion, Magnus Carlsen. [2]
The 2020 Women's World Chess Championship was a chess match for the Women's World Chess Championship title. It was contested by Ju Wenjun (world champion as winner of the 2018 knock-out championship) and her challenger, Aleksandra Goryachkina, the winner of a newly established Candidates Tournament that was held in 2019.