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    The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022 (WFRCC) was the second official world championship in Fischer Random Chess (also known as Chess960)...
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    The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019 (WFRCC) was the first world championship in Fischer random chess officially recognized by the international...
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    FIDE added Chess960 to an appendix of the Laws of Chess. The first world championship officially sanctioned by FIDE, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess...
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    are also chess world championships in rapid, blitz, correspondence, problem solving, Fischer random chess, and computer chess. The game of chess in its...
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    Ian Nepomniachtchi (category World Youth Chess Champions)
    Ordix Open. In October 2022, he won a silver medal in FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022. In December 2019, he qualified for the Candidates...
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    The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion...
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    The World Chess960 Championship is a match or tournament held to determine a world champion in Chess960 (also known as Fischer random chess), a popular...
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    than any chess championship before or since. In 1975, Fischer refused to defend his title when an agreement could not be reached with FIDE, chess's international...
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    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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    duration of the U.S. Chess Championships. FIDE upgraded their anti-cheating measures for the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022. This included...
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    old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). The idea was the brainchild of William Ritson-Morry, who organized...
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    less than 60 minutes. Rapid chess was called active chess by FIDE between 1987 and 1989. For the FIDE World Rapid Championship, each player has 15 minutes...
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    Alireza Firouzja (category Chess Grandmasters)
    won the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament and an individual gold medal at the European Team Chess Championship. In 2022, Firouzja won the Grand Chess Tour. He...
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  • Castling (redirect from Castling (chess))
    starting position. Former world Fischer Random Chess Champion Wesley So was confused by the castling rules during the 2022 championships, and attempted to illegally...
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    Wesley So (category Summer World University Games medalists in chess)
    Champion after defeating Magnus Carlsen to win the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. A former chess prodigy, So became the youngest player to pass...
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  • the final to win the inaugural Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge, the first major classical Fischer random chess tournament. Feb 18 – 8-year-old Ashwath...
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    Magnus Carlsen (category World chess champions)
    official FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. He was automatically seeded to the semi-final round, as the unofficial Fischer Random Chess champion...
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  • Right before this, he made into the knock out stage of the FIDE Fischer Random World Championship qualifiers as the youngest player. In January 2023, Woodward...
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    Judit Polgár (category World Youth Chess Champions)
    record previously held by former world champion Bobby Fischer. She was the youngest player ever to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, ranking...
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  • several tournaments: a Leagues Season, a Cup, a Swiss tournament, a Fischer Random Chess tournament. Additionally, seasons contain various bonus contests...
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    International Chess Federation (FIDE) and revolve around the World Championship cycle, which culminates in a match to decide the Women's World Chess Champion...
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  • in the American Chess Journal, 3, pp. 59–102. FIDE Rating Regulations effective from 1 July 2017. FIDE Online (fide.com) (Report). FIDE. Archived from...
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    Chess Championships 1998–2004 FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 FIDE World Chess Championship 2000 FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 FIDE World Chess Championship...
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    describe chess moves. The rules of chess are published by FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs; "International Chess Federation"), chess's world governing...
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    Vidit Gujrathi (category Chess players at the 2022 Asian Games)
    2020 Prague Chess Festival Masters. Winner of the 2019 Biel Chess Festival. Quarter-finalist of the World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019. Score...
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  • Tournament A tournament organised by the FIDE, the third and last qualifying cycle of the World Chess Championship. The participants are the top players...
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    Hjörvar Steinn Grétarsson (category Chess Grandmasters)
    Chess Olympiad, scoring 7/10. Grétarsson received a wild card from the Icelandic Chess Federation to compete in the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship...
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    including world champions such as José Raúl Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker, Bobby Fischer, and Vladimir Kramnik, have expressed fears of a "draw death" as chess becomes...
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    in the Grand Chess Tour. British Knockout Championship: David Howell won by defeating Nicholas Pert in the final by a score of 4−2. FIDE Open: Benjamin...
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    Lichess (category Internet chess servers)
    enabling blindfold chess, the website supports the following chess variants: Antichess (Losing chess) Atomic chess Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess) Crazyhouse...
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