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Chess World Cup 2021: Single-elimination tournament 12 Jul – 6 Aug 206 (25) Jan-Krzysztof Duda: Sergey Karjakin: Magnus Carlsen: Women's Chess World Cup 2021: Single-elimination tournament 12 Jul – 3 Aug 103 (-) Alexandra Kosteniuk: Aleksandra Goryachkina: Tan Zhongyi: World Chess Championship 2021: Best-of-14 match, with tie breaks 24 Nov ...
The Champions Chess Tour 2021, known for sponsorship reasons as the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, [1] [2] was a 10-month long series of 10 online chess tournaments featuring the world's top players, playing for a prize money pool of US$1.5 million. [3]
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 Grand Chess Tour 2021 was a series of chess tournaments, which was sixth edition of Grand Chess Tour. It consisted five tournaments, including two tournaments with classical time control and three tournaments with faster time controls. [1] It was won by American grandmaster Wesley So. [2]
In 2014–15, four top 10 players (Carlsen, Anand, Topalov and Aronian) didn't participate, with the small prize funds and organizational uncertainty being the usual reasons given. [2] [3] [4] The winner of the Grand Prix (and sometimes lower finishers) gets entry to the Candidates Tournament. The winner of the women's cycle is directly ...
The FIDE Grand Swiss was preceded by the Isle of Man International Chess Tournament, which was held annually from 2014 to 2018. [4] The tournament was co-organized by the English Chess Federation . It was sponsored by PokerStars until 2015, and then by Chess.com , which also sponsored the first two editions of the Grand Swiss.
Chess Super League is an online chess tournament organized by Samay Raina, ChessBase India, Nodwin Gaming. Players in the tournament, consist of some of the Top International Grandmasters, Indian Grandmasters, International Masters and Indian Junior Players, which are grouped into 6 teams.
USCF chess grand prix tournament. At the end of the year, prizes are awarded to players with the most points. The first prize is usually $10,000. [2] These prizes provide incentives to grandmasters to play in small regional tournaments which they would otherwise avoid. The Grand Prix of chess was started in the 1980s by Church's Chicken. As a ...