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The Global Chess League (also known as Tech Mahindra Global Chess League) is an over-the-board rapid chess league comprising six franchises that compete over a period of two weeks. It is a joint venture between Tech Mahindra and FIDE. [2] Teams have six players each. The inaugural season took place in Dubai from June 21 to July 2, 2023.
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. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
Individual tournaments. AVRO 1938 chess tournament. Baden-Baden 1870 chess tournament. Berlin 1881 chess tournament. Berlin 1897 chess tournament. Bled 1931 chess tournament. Buenos Aires 1939 chess tournament. Cambridge Springs 1904 chess tournament. Carlsbad 1907 chess tournament Carlsbad.
The Professional Rapid Online Chess League (PRO Chess League and abbreviated PCL) was an online rapid chess league operated by chess.com. It was preceded by the United States Chess League , which announced in 2016 that it would be renamed, reformatted, and opened to cities from around the world, and moved to the website chess.com. [ 1 ] [ 2 ...
The World Chess Championship 2023 was a chess match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren to determine the new World Chess Champion. The match took place in Astana, Kazakhstan, from 9 April to 30 April 2023, and was a best of 14 games, plus tiebreaks. [1]
1933 – The Correspondence Chess League of America (now ICCF U.S.A.) is the first national organization to use a numerical rating system. It chooses the Short system which clubs on the west coast of the US had used. In 1934 the CCLA switched to the Walt James Percentage System but in 1940 returned to a point system designed by Kenneth Williams.
BBC award-winning journalists, from their book Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (HarperCollins, 2004): Fischer, some will maintain, was the outstanding player in chess history, though there are powerful advocates too for Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, and Kasparov. Many chess players ...
FIDE rankings. The International Chess Federation (FIDE) governs international chess competition. Each month, FIDE publishes the lists "Top 100 Players", "Top 100 Women", "Top 100 Juniors" and "Top 100 Girls" and rankings of countries according to the average rating of their top 10 players and top 10 female players. The Elo rating system is used.