Below is a list of events in chess during the year 2009, as well as the men's and women's FIDE rankings of that year: January 1 – Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)...

The Chess World Cup 2009 was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 20 November and 14 December 2009, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The...

Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on...

Corus Chess Tournament 2009 was the 71st edition of the Corus Chess Tournament, later known as the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. It was held in Wijk aan...

The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...

Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is allowed significantly less time than classical chess time controls allow...

A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament...

American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,...

The rook (/rʊk/; ♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess. It may move any number of squares horizontally or vertically without jumping, and it may capture...

A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by...

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous...

A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one...

Algebraic notation is the standard method of chess notation, used for recording and describing moves. It is based on a system of coordinates to identify...

This list of top-ranked chess grandmasters is ordered by their peak Elo rating. The cut-off value is 2700 for men (players with a rating at or above this...

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This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order. Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin. For...

were considered too trivial for inclusion in the catalogue. The chess variants listed below are derived from chess by changing one or more of the many rules...

world champion in Chess960 in 2006 and 2007, in rapid chess in 2009, and in blitz chess in 2010. Aronian has been the leading Armenian chess player since...

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...

28 June 1994) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the grandmaster title in 2009 at the age of 14 years, 7...

(born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title...

A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. The first...

Several methods have been suggested for comparing the greatest chess players in history. There is agreement on a statistical system to rate the strengths...

American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964...

female chess players Arkell, Susan FIDE rating history, 1987-2001 at OlimpBase.org Saunders, John (19 December 2009). "London Chess Classic 2009: Subsidiary...

World Team Chess Championship 2009 was the second edition of the women's chess event of the World Team Chess Championship. It was played in the Chinese...

July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning four-time United States Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2844, Caruana...

May 1988) is an Iranian-American chess player. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded her in 2009. Pourkashiyan is seven-time Iranian...

chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, five-time World Rapid Chess Champion, and the reigning eight-time World Blitz Chess Champion...

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...