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WORLD SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP
The championship was organized for the first time in 1991 at the request of the German Chess Federation. The participants…
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WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONS
1927-1944 Stevenson-Menchik, Vera Francerna (CSR-GB), b-day 06.02.1904, † 26.06.1944 1944-1950 Vacant 1950-1953 Rudenko, Liudmila (USSR), b-day 27.07.1904, † 26.02.1986 1953-1956 Bykova,…
Read MoreTournaments WBy admin / February 5, 2017
WORLD CHAMPIONS under the authority of FIDE
1948-1957 Botvinnik, Mikhail, USSR, b-day 17.08.1911, † 05.05.1995 1957-1958 Smyslov, Vasily, USSR, b-day 24.03.1921, † 27.03.2010 1958-1960 Botvinnik, Mikhail, USSR, b-day 17.08.1911, †…
Read MoreTournaments, Tournaments WBy admin / February 5, 2017
WORLD OPEN
A Mega Open Tournament organized by Goichberg and his team mainly in Philadelphia since 1972. The prize fund was from…
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WIJK AAN ZEE
Beverwijk, a Dutch city situated between Amsterdam and the North Sea which since 1938 was the venue of a national…
Read MoreTournaments WBy admin / May 26, 2016
WORLD AMATEUR CHAMPIONS
Organized for the first time in 1924, the championship came back in 1996 after a break of 68 years for…
Read MoreTournaments WBy admin / May 26, 2016
WORLD CHAMPIONS
1886-1894 Steinitz, Wilhelm, USA, b-day 18.05.1836, †12.08.1900 1894-1921 Lasker, Emmanuel, USA, b-day 24.12.1868, † 11.01.1941 1921-1927 Capablanca, Jose Raul,…
Read MoreTournaments, Tournaments WBy admin / March 16, 2016
WORLD BLITZ CHAMPIONSHIP
After 2 major tries like in 1970 when Bobby Fischer won a very strong tournament in Yugoslavia or in 1988…
Read MoreTournaments, Tournaments WBy admin / March 10, 2016
WORLD CUP
Originally, it was a top tournament organized by FIDE for men and women with a prize fund of over US$…
Read MoreTournaments, Tournaments WBy admin / March 2, 2016
WORLD TEAM STUDENTS’ CHAMPIONSHIP – WORLD U26 TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
1954 (Oslo) 1. Czechoslovakia 1955 (Lyon) 1. USSR 1956 (Uppsala) 1. USSR 1957 (Reykjavik) 1. USSR 1958 (Varna) 1. USSR 1959 (Budapest) 1. Bulgaria 1960 (Leningrad) 1….
Read MoreTournaments, Tournaments WBy admin / March 2, 2016
WORLD CLASSICAL CHESS CHAMPIONS
1993-2000 Kasparov, Garry, RUS, b-day 13.04.1963 2000-2006 Kramnik, Vladimir, RUS, b-day 25.06.1975 Back to Tournaments