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Anand defeated Magnus Carlsen for the first time in almost five years at the 2022 Norway Chess Blitz in May. [153] Anand finished third in the main (Classical) event in the Norway chess tournament, defeating Grandmasters Topalov and Maxime Vachier Lagrave, and suffering a shocking loss to Grandmaster Mamedyarov.
The World Chess Championship 2013 was a match between reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Magnus Carlsen, to determine the World Chess Champion.It was held from 7 to 25 November 2013 in Chennai, India, under the auspices of FIDE (the World Chess Federation).
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 in Sochi, Russia. [1] The match was decided after eleven of twelve scheduled games.
As a seven-year-old, Dommaraju watched Carlsen end Indian chess wizard Viswanathan Anand’s reign as the world champion. The 2013 match was held in his hometown in Chennai and Dommaraju was in ...
Since 2013, the Candidates Tournament has been an eight-player double round robin tournament, with the winner playing a match against the champion for the title. Norwegian Magnus Carlsen won the 2013 Candidates and then convincingly defeated Anand in the World Chess Championship 2013. [95] [96]
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 seventh and current world number one is Magnus Carlsen, who first achieved this ranking in the January 2010 list, and has been world number one since July 2011 after having lost and reclaimed the position from Anand during 2010 and 2011.
In fact, he said he had harboured such ambitions since he was seven when he was a spectator at a World Title match between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen in 2013.