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 Cup 2000 was a 24-player Category XVI chess tournament played between 1 September and 13 September 2000 in Shenyang, China. The tournament...
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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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The FIDE World Cup 2002, marketed as the Second Chess World Cup, was a 24-player Category XVI chess tournament played between 9 October and 22 October...
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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 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 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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Viswanathan Anand (redirect from Chess Anand)
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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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 European Individual Chess Championship is a chess tournament organised by the European Chess Union. It was established in 2000 and has since then taken...
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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 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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Robatsch, Australian chess player and botanist - September 19 Top 100 FIDE players 2000 "Zhansaya Abdumalik". chess.com. World chess federation. Retrieved...
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Vladimir Kramnik (category World chess champions)
1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the 14th undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006...
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Ruslan Ponomariov (category World chess champions)
the time. He won the 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...
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (redirect from MVL (chess))
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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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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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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Koneru Humpy (category World Youth Chess Champions)
an Indian chess grandmaster. Humpy is a runner-up of the Women's World Chess Championship and the reigning two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion...
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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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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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Alexander Grischuk (category Chess Grandmasters)
the 2000 FIDE World Championship. Grischuk has won two team gold medals, three team silvers, one team bronze, and one individual bronze medal at Chess Olympiads...
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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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There 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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Chess960 (redirect from Fischerandom chess)
position of the pieces on the back rank. It was introduced by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer in 1996 to reduce the emphasis on opening preparation...
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Hans Niemann (redirect from Chess speaks for itself)
controversy after defeating reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in the third round of the 2022 Sinquefield Cup. As a result, Carlsen withdrew from...
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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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Nemo Zhou (redirect from Qiyu Zhou (chess player))
周齐宇; born January 6, 2000), also known as Nemo Zhou and her online alias akaNemsko, is a Chinese-born Canadian and Finnish chess player who holds the...
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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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