The Interregnum of World Chess Champions lasted from the death of incumbent World Chess Champion Alexander Alekhine on 24 March 1946, until Mikhail Botvinnik...
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had two Interregnum periods of having no chess champions, both during the 1940s. 1946–1948 — Men's World Chess Champion Alexander Alekhine died of natural...
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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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FIDE (redirect from World Chess Federation)
speculation, which only made the situation more confused. See Interregnum of World Chess Champions for more details. This situation was exacerbated by the Soviet...
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Interregnum (History of the Maldives) Interregnum of World Chess Champions (1946–1948) Interregnum (solitaire), a card game George Grosz' Interregnum, a 1960 documentary...
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speculation, which only made the situation more baffling. See interregnum of World Chess Champions for more details. The eventual solution was very similar...
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The World Chess Championship 2021 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi to determine...
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The World Chess Championship 2023 was a chess match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren to determine the new World Chess Champion. The match took...
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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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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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Championship World Championship of Chess Composition World Computer Chess Championship World Computer Speed Chess Championship Interregnum of World Chess Champions...
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Mikhail Botvinnik (category World chess champions)
was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an electrical...
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Alexander Alekhine (category World chess champions)
French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already among the strongest chess players...
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Vera Menchik (category Women's world chess champions)
Russian-born Czechoslovak chess player who primarily resided in England. She was the first and longest-reigning Women's World Chess Champion from 1927 to 1944...
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Viktor Korchnoi (category World Senior Chess Champions)
(after 1980) chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Born in Leningrad...
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Miguel Najdorf (category Chess Grandmasters)
– 4 July 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in 1939, and he stayed and...
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Israel (redirect from State of Israel)
forces and police. Chess is a leading sport. There are many Israeli grandmasters and Israeli chess players have won a number of youth world championships....
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fields of arts and sciences, spreading across both the eastern and western world. Remarkable was the invention of Tamerlane Chess, reconstruction of the...
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February 17 (redirect from 17th of February)
Battle of Rudau. 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan of the...
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foundation of the school, which was first opened on 25 March 1656, during the politically unstable and volatile period of the English Interregnum. Having...
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Burgas (redirect from Port of Burgas)
returned to the Byzantine Empire during the Ottoman Interregnum and retained by the Byzantines until the fall of the Empire to the Ottomans in 1453. It was only...
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July 11 (redirect from 11th of July)
nationalized. 1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts. 1973 –...
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