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 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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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 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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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 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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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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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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Viswanathan Anand (redirect from Chess Anand)
chess grandmaster. Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion, a two-time Chess World Cup Champion and a World Blitz...
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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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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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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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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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Hou Yifan (redirect from Hou Yifan (Chinese chess player))
pronunciation; born 27 February 1994) is a Chinese chess grandmaster, three-time Women's World Chess Champion and professor at Peking University. She is...
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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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The World Chess Championship 2026 will be a chess match to determine who will hold the World Chess Champion position. It will be played between the defending...
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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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youngest chess grandmaster in the world at the time. Born in Costa Rica, he represented Costa Rica before switching to the United States in 2011. Born in...
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Hikaru Nakamura (redirect from Hikaru (chess))
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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Levon Aronian (category World Junior Chess Champions)
history. Aronian won the FIDE World Cup in 2005 and 2017. He led the Armenian national team to the gold medals in the Chess Olympiads of 2006 (Turin), 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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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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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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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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Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. Armageddon chess is a variant of fast chess with...
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Anish Giri (category Chess Grandmasters)
गिरि; Russian: Аниш Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the grandmaster title...
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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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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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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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