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    The 1984 Women's World Chess Championship was won by Maia Chiburdanidze, who successfully defended her title against challenger Irina Levitina. As part...
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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 World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...
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  • Following are the results of the U.S. Women's Chess Championship from 1937 to date. The tournament determines the woman chess champion of the United States....
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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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    The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion...
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    The World Chess Championship 2014 was a match between the world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Viswanathan Anand, to determine the World Chess Champion...
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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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  • World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an event held periodically since 1974 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is...
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  • 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...
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    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)...
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    women's tournaments, the latter of which are most prominent at or near the top level of women's chess and at youth levels. Modern top-level women's tournaments...
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    Karpov Women's Soviet Chess Championship Russian Chess Championship Mark Taimanov, Bernard Cafferty, Soviet Championships, London, Everyman Chess, 1998...
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  • The World Correspondence Chess Championship determines the World Champion in correspondence chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest the...
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    Gaprindashvili as Women's World Champion in 1978 and became the second woman to obtain the Grandmaster title in 1984 through her three World Championship match wins...
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  • January 1984, Garry Kasparov became the third world number one. He would dominate for 22 years from 1984 until his retirement from professional chess on 10...
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  • 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...
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  • FIDE (redirect from World Chess Federation)
    visible activity is organizing the World Chess Championship since 1948. FIDE also organizes world championships for women, juniors, seniors, and the disabled...
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  • National Closed Chess Championship prior to 2016, the first edition was held in 1974. A separate Malaysian Women's Chess Championship has also been held...
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    The World Rapid Chess Championship 2021 is the 2021 edition of the annual World Rapid Chess Championship held by FIDE to determine the world champion in...
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    Pia Cramling (category Chess Grandmasters)
    represented Sweden in the Chess Olympiad in both the open and women's events, European Team Chess Championship in both open and women's sections, Telechess...
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    to win World Chess Championship – live". MSN. Archived from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2023. "Women's World Championship 2020 -...
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    the World Women's Chess Olympiad Women's World Chess Championship World Chess Championship World Mind Sports Games World Team Chess Championship Brace...
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    in 1984, is the main competition in women's association football between national teams of the UEFA confederation. The competition is the women's equivalent...
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    Anna Cramling (category Chess Olympiad competitors)
    She participated in several European Youth, World Cadets, World Youth, and World Junior Chess Championships in different age divisions from 2015 until...
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  • German Chess Championship has been played since 1861, and determines the national champion. Prior to 1880, three different federations organized chess activities...
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  • The Women's Soviet Chess Championship was played in the Soviet Union from 1927 through 1991 to determine the women's chess national champion. The championship...
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  • The winner of the Canadian Closed advances to the World Cup stage of the FIDE World Chess Championship cycle. Winners on tiebreak or a playoff match are...
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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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    2011. Steven Doyle, USCF president from 1984 to 1987, founded the World Chess Hall of Fame in 1986 as the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. It opened in 1988 in the...
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