The Classical World Chess Championship 2000, known at the time as the Braingames World Chess Championships, was held from 8 October 2000 – 4 November 2000...
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The Classical World Chess Championship 2004 was held from September 25, 2004, to October 18, 2004, in Brissago, Switzerland. Vladimir Kramnik, the defending...
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The World Chess Championship 2006 was a match between Classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik and FIDE World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov. The...
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Kasparov for his title. (This match never took place – see Classical World Chess Championship 2000). Only three players in the top fifteen reached the quarterfinals...
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The World Chess Championship 2024 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh Dommaraju to determine the...
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Two rival world chess championships were held in the year 2000: Classical World Chess Championship 2000, a match between challenger Vladimir Kramnik and...
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The Classical World Chess Championship 1995, known at the time as the PCA World Chess Championship 1995, was held from September 10, 1995, to October 16...
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Candidates Tournament (redirect from World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament)
the Candidates final. The Classical World Chess Championship 2000, in which two players were seeded into the championship final (one of them being incumbent...
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The Women's World Chess Championship is a chess match played to determine the Women's World Chess Champion. It has been administered by FIDE since its...
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The FIDE World Chess Championship 2000 was held in New Delhi, India, and Tehran, Iran. The first six rounds were played in New Delhi between 27 November...
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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...
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FIDE World Chess Championships from 1998 to 2004 followed a similar knockout format, radically different from previous World Chess Championship events...
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Vladimir Kramnik (category World chess champions)
1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the 14th undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006...
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Berlin Defence (redirect from Berlin Defence (Chess))
high-level games and received little attention until the Classical World Chess Championship 2000, in which challenger Vladimir Kramnik used it as a drawing...
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Viswanathan Anand (redirect from Chess Anand)
a six-game match to win the 2000 FIDE World Chess Championship, a title he held until 2002. He became the undisputed world champion in 2007 and defended...
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The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous...
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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...
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match to a hand-picked challenger, Vladimir Kramnik, in 2000 (Classical World Chess Championship 2000). This match was played under the auspices of Brain...
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The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. Prior to 2012...
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Magnus Carlsen (category World chess champions)
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...
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and even titled chess masters. Some chess prodigies have progressed to become grandmasters or even World Chess Champions. Early chess prodigies included...
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Invitational. The longest game played in a world championship is the 6th game of the 2021 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi...
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Chess960 (redirect from Fischerandom chess)
appendix of the Laws of Chess. The first world championship officially sanctioned by FIDE, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019, brought additional...
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chess events include the Chess Olympiad and the European Team Chess Championship. The World Chess Solving Championship and World Correspondence Chess...
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The World Chess960 Championship is a match or tournament held to determine a world champion in Chess960 (also known as Fischer random chess), a popular...
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Berlin variation of the Ruy Lopez was made famous in the Classical World Chess Championship 2000, by challenger Vladimir Kramnik who used it against champion...
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Joël Lautier (category World Youth Chess Champions)
chess grandmaster and one of the world's leading chess players in the 1990s and early 2000s. In 1986, he won the U-14 World Youth Chess Championship in...
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Kramnik instead at the Classical World Chess Championship 2000. "Garry Kasparov vs. The World (1999) "Sitting on Top of the World"". Chessgames.com. Retrieved...
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Garry Kasparov (redirect from Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped)
1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved...
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from more than 75 countries. Kasparov won. 2000: Kasparov–Kramnik, Classical World Chess Championship 2000, 3rd Match Game, London. Vladimir Kramnik revives...
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