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The World Chess Championship 2014 was a match between the world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Viswanathan Anand, to determine the World Chess Champion. It was held from 7 to 25 November 2014, under the auspices of the World Chess Federation ( FIDE ) in Sochi , Russia .
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 ...
World Chess Championship 2014; 41st Chess Olympiad; Women's World Chess Championship 2014; 2014 European Individual Chess Championship; FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15; FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–14; Norway Chess 2014; Shamkir Chess; Sinquefield Cup 2014; Zurich Chess Challenge 2014
Wesley So scored 9/9 in the 2011 Inter-Provincial Chess Team Championship, with a performance rating of 3037, [65] [66] won the gold medal in men's blitz at the SEA Games 2011 at Indonesia with a score of 9/9 and a rating performance of 3183, [67] and won the 2013 Calgary International Blitz Championship with a score of 9/9. [68]
The next two highest rated players who played in the Chess World Cup 2013 or the FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13 (average FIDE rating on the 12 monthly lists from August 2012 to July 2013) [4] Levon Aronian: 31 2830 2 Sergey Karjakin: 24 2766 9 Organizing committee's wild card (FIDE rating in July 2013 at least 2725) Peter Svidler [5] 37 2758 11
FIDE and the PCA each held a championship cycle in 1993–1996, with many of the same challengers playing in both. Kasparov and Karpov both won their respective cycles. In the PCA cycle, Kasparov defeated Viswanathan Anand in the PCA World Chess Championship 1995. Karpov defeated Gata Kamsky in the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996.
Teams are sized by a weighted medal count that awards 3 points for gold medals, 2 points for silver and 1 point for bronze. Some data is not available for all teams. Data copyright 2014 by STATS LLC. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC is strictly prohibited.
The All India Chess Federation was given a "first option" of three months following the 2012 World Chess Championship, to make a proposal for the organisation of the 2013 World Chess Championship. [46] 19 September. FIDE published the rules, regulations and qualification criteria for the Candidates Tournament of the FIDE World Championship ...