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 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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always force either a victory or a draw (see solved game). It is also related to more generally solving chess-like games (i.e. combinatorial games of perfect...
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be gained by participating in the official World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC): to become a GM, a solver must score at least 90 percent of the winner's...
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be gained by participating in the official World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC): to become a GM, a solver must score at least 90 percent of the winner's...
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chess events include the Chess Olympiad and the European Team Chess Championship. The World Chess Solving Championship and World Correspondence Chess...
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and solving tourneys World Championship in Composing for Individuals (WCCI) World Chess Composition Tourney (WCCT), in fact a world championship of teams...
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Kacper Piorun (category International solving grandmasters)
Polish chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in September 2012. He is a six-time winner of the World Chess Solving Championship, and...
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The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. Prior to 2012...
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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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Roland Baier (category International solving grandmasters)
chess problemist. In 1983 Baier won the first individual World Chess Solving Championship. In 1988 he gained the title of the International Solving Grandmaster...
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John Nunn (redirect from Nunn's Chess Openings)
(born 25 April 1955) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician...
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Jorma Paavilainen (category International solving grandmasters)
the title of International Solving Grandmaster. In 2001 in Wageningen he won the individual World Chess Solving Championship. In 2003 Paavilainen won silver...
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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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Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles...
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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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won the individual and team World Chess Solving Championship. He also later twice won the World Chess Solving Championship in team classification. In 2008...
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The World Team Chess Championship is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of 10 countries whose chess federations dominate...
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Magnus Carlsen (category World chess champions)
chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, five-time World Rapid Chess Champion, and the reigning eight-time World Blitz Chess Champion...
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Pauli Perkonoja (category International solving grandmasters)
individual World Chess Solving Championship: 1986, 1992 and 1995. In 2005 in Legnica he won the first European Chess Solving Championship. Chess Composers...
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so-called world's first autonomous chess robot. The Mechanical Turk seemingly could play chess and beat opponents, even going as far as solving the iconic...
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Michel Caillaud (category International solving grandmasters)
the youngest GM for Chess Compositions. He has 200.92 points in FIDE Albums. Caillaud twice won the World Chess Solving Championship: 1987 in Graz and 2000...
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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 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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Georgy Evseev (category International solving grandmasters)
International Solving Grandmaster. In 2014 he convincingly won the Russia Chess Solving Championship. In 2015 Evseev won the European Chess Solving Championship in...
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Ofer Comay (category International solving grandmasters)
WCSC RICCIONE 18.-19.9.1985 Solving grandmasters Archived 2019-04-10 at the Wayback Machine 23. World Chess Solving Championship Netanya 26.-27.10.1999 About...
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Arno Zude (category International solving grandmasters)
gained the title of International Solving Grandmaster. In 1994 he won the individual World Chess Solving Championship in Belfort. Zude is a three-time...
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World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) was an event held periodically from 1974 to 2024 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The...
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Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since...
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The World Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. The 2024 tournament took place...
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