Major chess events that took place in 2019 include the Tata Steel, Shamkir Chess, Grenke Chess Classic and Norway Chess, all won by World Champion Magnus...
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The Chess World Cup 2019 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from 9 September to 4 October...
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open-source chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms. It can be used in chess software through the Universal Chess Interface. Stockfish...
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Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. One of the largest chess platforms in the world, the site operates on a freemium model...
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The Grand Chess Tour 2019 was a series of chess tournaments, held in from 6 May to 10 December 2019. It was the fifth edition of Grand Chess Tour. The...
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Magnus Carlsen (category Norwegian chess players)
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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The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player...
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Dota Auto Chess is a strategy video game mod for the video game Dota 2. Developed by Drodo Studio and released in January 2019, the game features teams...
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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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Random Chess Championship 2019 (WFRCC) was the first world championship in Fischer random chess officially recognized by the international chess federation...
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Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to...
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Leela Chess Zero (abbreviated as LCZero, lc0) is a free, open-source chess engine and volunteer computing project based on Google's AlphaZero engine. It...
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Chess960 (redirect from Fischerandom chess)
article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position...
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Hans Niemann (redirect from Chess speaks for itself)
2003) is an American chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. He first entered the top 100 junior players list on March 1, 2019, and became a FIDE grandmaster...
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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 chess competition was held at the 2019 Winter Deaflympics between 13 and 20 December 2019 at Hotel Aurora except on 18 December. The chess competition...
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The 2019 PRO Chess League Season was the third season of the PRO Chess League. It started on November 9 with the qualification tournament in order to decide...
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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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Cairns Cup (category 2019 in chess)
an annual round robin chess tournament, founded in 2019, for the leading women's chess players held in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States. The...
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The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2019 was the 81st edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. It was held in Wijk aan Zee, Alkmaar and Leiden from 11–27...
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The World Rapid Chess Championship 2019 (known as the King Salman World Rapid & Blitz Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a chess tournament held...
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Algebraic notation is the standard method of chess notation, used for recording and describing moves. It is based on a system of coordinates to identify...
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Norway Chess is an annual closed chess tournament, typically taking place in the May to June time period every year. The first edition took place in the...
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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...
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Chess at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games was the first SEA Games tournament since the 2013 edition in Naypyidaw. Chess will feature seven team events....
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were considered too trivial for inclusion in the catalogue. The chess variants listed below are derived from chess by changing one or more of the many rules...
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Alireza Firouzja (category Chess Grandmasters)
won the Grand Chess Tour. He qualified for the Candidates Tournament in 2022 and 2024. Firouzja left the Iranian Chess Federation in 2019 because of the...
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Gukesh Dommaraju (category Asian Games medalists in chess)
Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, Gukesh is the youngest undisputed...
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Tania Sachdev (category Chess International Masters)
one-time Asian women's chess champion in 2007 and three-time Commonwealth Women's Chess Champion in 2016, 2018, and 2019. She is also a chess presenter and commentator...
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Chess at the 2019 African Games was held from 24 to 28 August 2019 in Casablanca, Morocco. Algeria Angola Botswana Cape Verde Central African Republic...
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