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The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019 (WFRCC) was the first world championship in Fischer random chess officially recognized by the international chess federation FIDE. [1] Previous unofficial championships had been held , with the most recent winner being Magnus Carlsen in 2018.
2023-12 2000 Highest-ranked Iranian player (2018–2019, since 2019) 57 Vietnam: Lê Quang Liêm: 2741 2024-08 1991 Highest-ranked Vietnamese player (since 2009) 58 Soviet Union Russia Canada: Evgeny Bareev: 2739 2003-10 1966 Highest-ranked Canadian player (since 2015) Russia Slovenia: Vladimir Fedoseev: 2739 2025-03 1995
The FIDE Grand Prix is a biennial series of chess tournaments, organized by FIDE and its commercial partner Agon.Each series consists of three to six chess tournaments, which used to form part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship or Women's World Chess Championship.
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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 following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess.The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing body, FIDE.Other than world champion, it is the highest title a chess player can attain and is awarded for life, although FIDE regulations allow for the revocation of titles for cheating or fraud.
Players' new ratings centre on the average rating of entrants to their competition: then if having achieved better than a net draw set of result, minus the number of percentage points it is over 50% (e.g. a 12–4 or 24–8 wins-to-losses result is, as ever, noted as a 75% tournament outcome) – if having achieved worse than this then the ...
In October 2022, Woodward earned his first GM norm at the 1000GM Hollywood Masters with a score of 6.5/9, defeating grandmasters Illia Nyzhnyk and Gergely Kántor. [4] Right before this, he made into the knock out stage of the FIDE Fischer Random World Championship qualifiers as the youngest player.