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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
March 2014 rating World Ranking (March 2014) 2013 World Championship runner-up Viswanathan Anand: 44 2770 8 The top two finishers in the Chess World Cup 2013: Vladimir Kramnik: 38 2787 3 Dmitry Andreikin: 24 2709 42 The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13: Veselin Topalov [3] 39 2785 4 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov: 28 2757 13
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.
The FIDE World Cup is a major chess event organized by FIDE, the international governing body. Three different formats have been used: Three different formats have been used: In 2000 and 2002, it was a multi-stage tournament , with a group stage consisting of 24 players in four groups, followed by a knockout stage .
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.
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 ...