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But he quickly recovered from this setback and went on to win the second match by five games to four (+5 -4). Although the title of World Chess Champion was not created until 1886 (with Wilhelm Steinitz as the first champion), the Labourdonnais-McDonnell matches are often regarded in retrospect as an unofficial World Championship.
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 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The match took place in the Laugardalshöll in Reykjavík , Iceland , and has been dubbed the Match of the Century .
Mikhail Tal [a] (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) [1] was a Soviet and Latvian chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion.He is considered a creative genius and is widely regarded as one of the most influential players in chess history.
1996 – Deep Blue beats Kasparov in the first game won by a chess-playing computer against a reigning world champion under normal chess tournament conditions. Kasparov recovers to win the match 4–2 (three wins, one loss, two draws).
Alexander McDonnell from Ireland was a wealthy merchant who was regarded as one of the leading chess players of the time. Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais from France was regarded as the unofficial World Chess Champion. The two played a series of six matches in London over the summer of 1834. Of these matches, La Bourdonnais won the first ...
The best of 24 game match was held in Moscow. In the event of a 12–12 tie, Botvinnik, the title holder, would retain the Championship. Due to Tal's less impressive results against the very top players, including his three losses to Keres in the Candidates, Botvinnik was the favourite. [5] However Tal won the match decisively, by a margin of 4 ...
This match, played between September 23 and October 13, 2006, in Elista, Kalmykia, Russia, [2] was to reunite the two World Chess Champion titles and produce an undisputed World Champion. Kramnik won the first two games, establishing a commanding lead.