After staging the World Chess Championship in 1998 and in 1999 in the form of the Knockout Tournament, in 2000 FIDE continued with the annual organization of this event and kept the format intact. FIDE…
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Kasparov – Kramnik World Championship 2000
After the successful defence of his title against Anand 1995, the Classical World Champion Garry Kasparov had trouble organizing his next match. Intel Corporation refused to renew its sponsorship of the PCA (Professional Chess Association)…
FIDE World Championship Tournament 1999
After Anatoly Karpov won yet another World Championship title in 1998, FIDE continued to organize its World Championship Cycle in the form of the Knockout Tournament. The next edition was scheduled in 1999. The tournament…
Best Chess Sets – The Ultimate Guide To Buying A Chess Set
A CHESS SET? There are many advantages of being a chess player. Apart from high intelligence, fantastic sense of humour, humbleness and distorted outlook on reality, the main one is probably the amount of equipment…
Tijana Blagojević Interview
Tijana Blagojević is one of the most successful young players in the whole Balkans and one of the most successful female chess players in the history of Montenegro. Her chess biography is impressive – she…
FIDE World Championship Tournament 1998
In 1997, the newly elected FIDE President Kyrsan Ilyumzhinov introduced a completely new system of determining the FIDE World Champion. Instead of the „normal“ qualifying cycle that led to Karpov – Kamsky match two years…
Karpov – Kamsky FIDE World Championship 1996
After Kasparov – Short Classical World Championship and Karpov – Timman FID World Championship matches in 1993, chess world gained two separate world champions. The schism caused chaos in the Chess World, as for the…
Kasparov – Anand World Championship 1995
After Kasparov and Short split in 1993, the signs of reconciliation between the Classical World Champion Garry Kasparov and FIDE were nowhere to be seen. The chess world continued to have two simultaneous World Champions;…
Karpov – Timman FIDE World Championship 1993
In 1993, Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short decided to break away from FIDE and play their World Championship match under the auspice of the newly formed Professional Chess Association. In response, FIDE decided to strip…
Kasparov – Short World Championship 1993
In 1993, a dramatic series of events happened that would change the course of the modern chess history once and for all. After beating Boris Gelfand, Jan Timman and Anatoly Karpov in Candidates match, young…
Kasparov – Karpov World Championship Match 1990
After the controversial decision to seed Anatoly Karpov directly into the final of the 1987 World Championship Qualifying Cycle, for the next World Championship Cycle FIDE decided to alter its decision and to reserve him…
Kasparov – Karpov World Championship Match 1987
After the endless Kasparov – Karpov battles in 1984, 1985, 1986, the time has come to organize the next World Championship cycle. However, due to the clause that granted Karpov the right to return match…