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The match was best of 14 games; a score of at least 7½ would win the world championship. Due to the score being equal after 14 games, tiebreak games with faster time controls were played: [47] A match consisting of 4 rapid games with 25 minutes per side and a 10-second increment starting with move 1 will be played. If a player scores 2½ ...
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.
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 tournament winner qualified to play Magnus Carlsen for the World Championship in 2023. [9] [31] However, Carlsen said following the previous championship in 2021 that, due to a lack of motivation, he might not defend his title unless the challenger was Alireza Firouzja, who rose to number two in the world rankings in 2021 at the age of 18. [31]
The 2024 World Chess Championship is set to kick off this week, a showdown between 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju of India and reigning champion Ding Liren of China.
Ding Liren (Chinese: 丁立人; born 24 October 1992) is a Chinese chess grandmaster who was the 17th World Chess Champion from 2023–24. He is also a three-time Chinese Chess Champion and was a member of the Chinese chess teams that won the Chess Olympiads in 2014 and 2018.
The match will be best of 14 games; a score of at least 7½ would win the world championship. If the score is equal after 14 games, tiebreak games with faster time controls will be played: A match consisting of 4 rapid games with 15 minutes per side and a 10-second increment starting with move 1 would be played. If a player scores 2½ points or ...
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 ...