Below is a list of events in chess during the year 2008, and a list of the top ten players during that year: (Top events in bold) January 1 – Vladimir...

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens Tournament...

The World Chess Championship 2008 was a best-of-twelve-games match between the incumbent World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, and the previous World...

game of chess, took place from 12 to 25 November 2008 in Dresden, Germany. There were 146 teams in the open event and 111 in the women's event. In total...

The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory. The other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. Many...

Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on...

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous...

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the...

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...

American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, Five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,...

1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years...

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...

Corus Chess Tournament 2008 was the 70th edition of the Corus Chess Tournament. It took place in the De Moriaan Community Centre in Wijk aan Zee in January...

National Women's Individual Chess Championship has also been held since 2008. From the year of 2009 National Club Team Chess Championship has been started...

Wii Chess is a 2008 chess video game developed by Nintendo and Lancarse and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It was released on January 18, 2008 in Europe...

A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament...

The FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010 was a series of six chess tournaments that formed part of the qualification for the World Chess Championship 2012. It was...

Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record...

rounds of blitz chess and boxing until one wins by checkmate or knockout. It is also possible to win by time penalty as in normal chess, and by boxing...

War-era chess tournament between two grandmasters, one American and the other Soviet, and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls in love with...

A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for the game of chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age. Their prodigious...

title in 2007 at the age of 14, and in the same year won his first Italian Chess Championship, a feat he repeated in 2008, 2010, and 2011. In 2014, Caruana...

Major chess events in 2025 include the annual Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Norway Chess and Grand Chess Tour. Ju Wenjun defended her title against challenger...

International Chess Federation. As of June 2025, the top 10 active Indian chess players have an average rating of 2727, the 2nd highest in the world, behind...

Chess Championship 2008 took place from August 28, 2008 to September 18 in Nalchik, Russia. It was won by Alexandra Kosteniuk, who beat Hou Yifan in the...

round robin chess tournament event featuring six super-GM players that took place in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. The first edition in December 2008 was won by...

Several methods have been suggested for comparing the greatest chess players in history. There is agreement on a statistical system to rate the strengths...

later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician....

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...

Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the 14th undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007. In 2000...