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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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    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 inception...
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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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    The FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 was held at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip between 31 July and 28 August 1999. The championship was won...
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    Professional Chess Association (PCA) split from FIDE, and as a result there were two competing World Championship titles between 1993 and 2006. Chess was first...
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    FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) for outstanding performance. The highest...
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  • The FIDE World Cup is a major chess event organized by FIDE, the international governing body. Three different formats have been used: In 2000 and 2002...
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    The FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 was held in Moscow, Russia. The first six rounds were played between 27 November and 14 December 2001, and the...
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    World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE...
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  • The 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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    Since 2012, FIDE has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships. FIDE also holds...
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    Classical World Chess Championship 2000, known at the time as the Braingames World Chess Championships, was held from 8 October 2000 – 4 November 2000 in London...
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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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    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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    are 42 female chess players who hold the title of Grandmaster (GM), the highest title awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The Grandmaster...
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    The international chess governing body FIDE grants several titles, the most prestigious of which is Grandmaster; many national chess federations also grant...
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  • Comparison of top chess players throughout history FIDE world rankings List of FIDE chess world number ones FIDE considers a player active if they played a rated...
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  • The FIDE World Rapid Team Championship is a team tournament in chess, played under rapid time controls and organized by the International Chess Federation...
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    describe chess moves. The rules of chess are published by FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs; "International Chess Federation"), chess's world governing...
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  • in the American Chess Journal, 3, pp. 59–102. FIDE Rating Regulations effective from 1 July 2017. FIDE Online (fide.com) (Report). FIDE. Archived from...
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    European Individual Chess Championship in 2003 and in 2009. In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000 and in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, Malakhov...
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  • 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...
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  • challenger Vladimir Kramnik and defending champion Garry Kasparov. FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, a knockout tournament that took place in New Delhi, India...
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  • The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ˈfiːdeɪ/ FEE-day, Fédération Internationale...
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    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...
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  • The World Amateur Chess Championship is a tournament organised by FIDE and Amateur Chess Organisation (ACO). The world governing body intended to promote...
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    Vladislav Nevednichy (category Moldovan chess players)
    is a Romanian chess Grandmaster (1993) and Romanian champion in 2008 and 2012. He took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, but was knocked...
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    clock after each move. Rapid chess was called active chess by FIDE between 1987 and 1989. For the FIDE World Rapid Championship, each player has 15 minutes...
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  • Boxing: 2000 World Amateur Boxing Championships Chess: FIDE World Chess Championship 2000 Curling: 2000 World Men's Curling Championship 2000 World Women's...
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  • 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...
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