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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. The...
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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 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 Women's Chess World Cup 2021 was a 103-player single-elimination chess tournament, the first edition of Women's Chess World Cup, that took place in...
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    Ruslan Ponomariov (category World chess champions)
    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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  • 2009 World Cup may refer to: 2009 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2009 ICC World Twenty20 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup 2009 World Cup (men's golf) Chess World...
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    against Wesley So and Levon Aronian 2009: 9th-16th at the Chess World Cup 2009. 2013: Semifinalist at the Chess World Cup 2013. 2014–2015 4th-7th place at...
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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 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 World Chess Championship 2026 will be a chess match to determine the new World Chess Champion. It will be played between the defending champion Gukesh...
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    The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2010. It was held as a 128-player single-elimination tournament...
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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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    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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    Boris Gelfand (category Chess players from Minsk)
    Belarusian-Israeli chess player. A six-time World Championship candidate (1991, 1994–95, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013), he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and the 2011...
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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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    Alice Teresa Lee (born October 13, 2009) is an American chess player with the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is the...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • The European Chess Club Cup is an annual chess tournament for club teams from Europe. It is organised by the European Chess Union. The competition is held...
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    World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from 12 September 2007 to 30 September 2007 to decide the world champion of the game of chess....
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    against the winner of the Chess World Cup 2009, with the winner of that match becoming the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2012. On November...
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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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    is 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...
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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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    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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    The World Chess Championship 2010 match pitted the defending world champion, Viswanathan Anand, against challenger Veselin Topalov, for the title of World...
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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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