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The World Chess Championship 2023 was a chess match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren to determine the new World Chess Champion. The match took place in Astana , Kazakhstan , from 9 April to 30 April 2023, and was a best of 14 games, plus tiebreaks.
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 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. The first event recognized as a world championship was the ...
The 2022 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess tournament to decide the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2023. The tournament took place at the Palacio de Santoña in Madrid, Spain, from June 16 to July 5, 2022, [2] with the World Championship finishing in April 2023. [3] As with every Candidates tournament since 2013, it ...
During the FIDE World Chess Championship 2023, Nepomniachtchi had a tied score of 7–7 with Ding Liren in the classical portion of the match. He ended up losing to Ding 9½–8½ in the 4th tiebreaker playoff as white in the rapid portion of the 18-game championship.
World Rapid and Blitz Team Chess Championships. The FIDE World Rapid Team Championship is a team tournament in chess, played under rapid time controls and organized by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in collaboration with WR Logistics GmbH. The first tournament took place in Dusseldorf, Germany, from August 26 to 28, 2023.
Ding Liren became World Chess Champion in April 2023, after defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 2023 championship match. [4] After acquiring the title, Ding did not appear in professional tournaments for months, an absence which Ding revealed in an interview before Norway Chess to be due to fatigue and illness. [5]
The main events in the 2023 chess calendar are the World Chess Championship 2023 [1][2] and Women's World Chess Championship 2023. [3] The top three finishers from the Chess World Cup 2023, the winner and runner-up of the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023 and the winner of the FIDE Circuit 2023 will qualify for the Candidates Tournament 2024.