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    The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess World Cup tournament. It was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 26 August and 21 September...
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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 Chess World Cup 2009 was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 20 November and 14 December 2009, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia....
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    The Chess World Cup 2013 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, played between 11 August and 2 September 2013, in the hotel Scandic Tromsø...
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    a Canadian chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title in 2013. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2011 and 2013. Hansen...
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    The World Chess Championship 2012 was a chess match between the defending World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner...
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    The 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 World Chess Championship 2013 was a match between reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Magnus Carlsen, to determine the World Chess...
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  • World Cup (snooker) 2011 World Cup (men's golf) Chess World Cup 2011 Women: 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Youth: 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup Junior: 2011 FIFA...
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    Magnus Carlsen (category World chess champions)
    November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, five-time World Rapid Chess Champion, and the reigning (shared...
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    an Indian chess grandmaster. Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion and a two-time Chess World Cup Champion....
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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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    Ding Liren (category World chess champions)
    24 October 1992) is a Chinese chess grandmaster who was the 17th World Chess Champion from 2023–24. He is also a three-time Chinese Chess Champion, was a member...
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    The World Chess Championship 2026 will be a chess match to determine the new World Chess Champion. It will be played between the defending champion Gukesh...
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  • FIDE World Cup and Women's World Cup. The Championship is regulated by the Asian Chess Federation. World Chess Championship Asian Senior Chess Championship...
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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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    Xtracon Chess Open Zurich Chess Challenge Chess World Cup 2005 Chess World Cup 2007 Chess World Cup 2009 Chess World Cup 2011 Chess World Cup 2013 Chess World...
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    French chess grandmaster who is a former World Blitz Champion. With a peak rating of 2819, he is the seventh-highest rated player in history. A chess prodigy...
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    Ruslan Ponomariov (category World chess champions)
    Ukrainian Chess Championship in 2011. He was runner-up in the Chess World Cup 2005 and Chess World Cup 2009, and reached the semi-finals in 2011 and the...
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    an American chess player. He was awarded the FIDE Master title in 2011 and the International Master title in 2015. Rosen began playing chess as a child...
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    Ian Nepomniachtchi (category World Youth Chess Champions)
    Moscow, he won the Russian Chess Championship, after defeating Sergey Karjakin in a playoff. At the Chess World Cup 2011, Nepomniachtchi defeated Isan...
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    Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time than classical chess time controls allow. Fast chess is...
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  • qualifier for the Chess World Cup 2007, the next stage in the 2010 World Championship. Six players qualified for the 2007 World Cup: IM Robert Gwaze (Zimbabwe)...
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    Peter Svidler (category World Youth Chess Champions)
    silvers and an individual bronze. Svidler won the Chess World Cup 2011, was runner-up in the World Blitz Championship in 2006 and won at Fontys Tilburg...
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    chess engines in the world for several years; it has won all main events of the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) and the Chess.com Computer Chess...
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    Fabiano Caruana (redirect from CaruanaChess)
    won his first Italian Chess Championship, a feat he repeated in 2008, 2010, and 2011. In 2014, Caruana won the Sinquefield Cup, recording a 3098 performance...
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  • The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...
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    American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, Five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,...
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  • chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess...
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    Levon Aronian (category World Junior Chess Champions)
    2014 FIDE world chess rankings with a rating of 2830, becoming the fourth highest-rated player in history. Aronian won the FIDE World Cup in 2005 and...
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