The 1985 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov in Moscow, Soviet Union from September 3 to November 9, 1985. Kasparov...

The World Chess Championship 1984–1985 was a match between challenger Garry Kasparov and defending champion Anatoly Karpov in Moscow from 10 September...

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...

The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition)...

The World Team Chess Championship is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of 10 countries whose chess federations dominate...

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...

World Team Chess Championship 1985 – is a chess event, which took place from 15 to 28 November 1985. 1st round 4th round 7th round 2nd round 5th round...

The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve...

The World Chess Championship 1993 was one of the most controversial matches in chess history, with incumbent World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, and official...

World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an event held periodically since 1974 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is...

The 1987 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov in Seville from October 12 to December 19, 1987. Before the 24th...

The World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) is an annual competition in the solving of chess problems (also known as chess puzzles) organized by the World...

The 1986 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov in London and Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) from July 28 to October...

national chess championship ever held, with eight world chess champions and four world championship finalists among its winners. It was held as a round-robin...

13th World Chess Champions respectively. The rivalry started in the mid-1980s and culminated in Karpov and Kasparov playing five world championship matches...

it being a rapid chess game. The longest game played in a world championship is the 6th game of the 2021 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen...

most visible activity is organizing the World Chess Championship since 1948. FIDE also organizes world championships for women, juniors, seniors, and the...

1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved...

the World Chess Championship. The winner of the Candidates earns the right to a match for the World Championship against the incumbent world champion....

December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion. He became the first...

tournament World Open chess tournament Xtracon Chess Open Zurich Chess Challenge Chess World Cup 2005 Chess World Cup 2007 Chess World Cup 2009 Chess World Cup...

modern chess tournament play began, and the first official World Chess Championship was held in 1886. The 20th century saw great leaps forward in chess theory...

Championship 1978 World Chess Championship 1981 World Chess Championship 1984 World Chess Championship 1985 World Chess Championship 1986 World Chess...

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 world number...

title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain...

chess events include the Chess Olympiad and the European Team Chess Championship. The World Chess Solving Championship and World Correspondence Chess...

Interest remains in computer chess tournaments, especially the World Computer Chess Championship and Top Chess Engine Championship. FIDE publishes a handbook...

The Asian Chess Championship is a chess tournament open to all players from Asian chess federations (FIDE zones from 3.1 to 3.8). It's held with the Swiss...

often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess grandmaster. Polgár was Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. On FIDE's Elo rating system...

adult players and even titled chess masters. Some chess prodigies have progressed to become World Chess Champions. Early chess prodigies included Paul Morphy...