WORLD AMATEUR CHAMPIONS
Organized for the first time in 1924, the championship came back in 1996 after a break of 68 years for...
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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,...
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The championship was organized for the first time in 1991 at the request of the German Chess Federation. The participants...
Read MoreWORLD OPEN
A Mega Open Tournament organized by Goichberg and his team mainly in Philadelphia since 1972. The prize fund was from...
Read MoreWORLD BLITZ CHAMPIONSHIP
After 2 major tries like in 1970 when Bobby Fischer won a very strong tournament in Yugoslavia or in 1988...
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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, †...
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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 MoreWORLD 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 MoreWORLD 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
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