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The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 2023 World Chess Championship. Magnus Carlsen, the previous world champion, had declined to defend his title.
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship. The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play.
The World Chess Championship 2021 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi to determine the World Chess Champion. It was held under the auspices of FIDE and played during Expo 2020 at Dubai Exhibition Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between 24 November and 12 December 2021 ...
World Chess Champions are players who have won a match or tournament for the World Championship at chess. Both men and women can become champion, but no woman has ever been a challenger for the title. There is, however, a separate championship for women.
Only 21 players in the history of chess have held the official title of world champion, 17 of which held the "classical" title. With rare exceptions, the classical champion has been decided in a match between the sitting champion and a challenger.
After Alexander Alekhine died in 1946, the 1948 Wold Chess championship, a five-player tournament, was organized to determine the World Champion. The event held in Hague and Moscow saw the victory of the leader of Soviet chess Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995).
This guide contains all the information about the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship: details on Carlsen, Nepomniachtchi, schedule, results, and more. GM Magnus Carlsen won four games in the match and drew seven for a final match score of 7.5-3.5.
The FIDE Chess World Championship between the champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi takes place Nov 24 - Dec 16 in Dubai.
FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH. NOVEMBER 20 – DECEMBER 15, 2024, SINGAPORE. The World Championship Match consists of 14 games. The player who scores 7.5 points or more wins the Match, and no further games are played. If the score after 14 games is equal, the winner is decided on a tiebreak.
The World Chess Championship 2024, officially known as the World Chess Championship 2024 presented by Google for sponsorship reasons, [1] [2] will be a match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh Dommaraju to determine the World Chess Champion.