Already in 2014, after the second Carlsen – Anand match, FIDE decided to hold the World Chess Championship as two-year cycles. After Carlsen defended his title against Karjakin, FIDE stuck to the same format. The…
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Carlsen – Karjakin World Chess Championship 2016
Two years after he successfully defended his title against Anand in Sochi, Magnus Carlsen’s reign as the World Champion was once again challenged. By winning the 2016 Candidates tournament, Carlsen’s childhood rival and friend, Ukrainian…
Anand – Carlsen World Chess Championship 2014
One year after the Carlsen – Anand 2013 match in which Magnus ended Anand’s long reign and became World Champion, the chess community braced for the reprise of that match. In contrast to the first…
Anand – Carlsen World Chess Championship 2013
Since capturing the title of the World Champion in 2007, Viswanathan Anand has successfully defended his crown on three occasions. In the Anand – Kramnik, Anand – Topalov and Anand – Gelfand matches, he has…
Anand – Gelfand World Chess Championship 2012
After gaining his title in 2007 and defending it successfully against two players of his own generation in 2008 match against Kramnik and 2010 match against Topalov, Viswanathan Anand was awaiting a new challenger in…
Anand – Topalov World Chess Championship 2010
After the controversial Kramnik – Topalov and less controversial Anand – Kramnik matches, in 2010 the last match between the “Big Three” took place. As you might recall, after he lost the 2006 match, Veselin…
Kramnik – Anand World Championship 2008
The long-awaited unification of the World Championship title after the Kramnik-Topalov match in 2006 greatly complicated FIDE’s task of organizing the subsequent World Championship cycle. The big problem was that FIDE already announced that the…
World Chess Championship Tournament 2007
After the unification match for the title of the World Chess Champion in 2006 between Kramnik and Topalov, it could have been expected the organization of subsequent World Championships would be simpler. But it wasn’t….
Kramnik – Topalov, World Championship Match 2006
Ever since the controversial decision by Garry Kasparov to organize his 1993 match against Nigel Short under the auspice of the newly found organization, PCA (Professional chess organization), two World Champions have existed simultaneously. Already…
FIDE World Championship 2005
After Rustam Kasimdzhanov won the FIDE World Championship 2004, FIDE immediately started the organization of the potential Kasimdzhanov – Kasparov match. In accordion to the Prague Agreement, the winner of that match was supposed to…
FIDE World Championship 2004
Ever since Kasparov and Short broke away from FIDE in 1993, the title of the World Chess Champion has been split. At the beginning of the 2000s, the unification of the title became the main…
Kramnik – Leko World Championship 2004
As the reader might recall, in 1993, after Kasparov and Short decided to break away from FIDE, the chief organization responded by an organization of a separate World Championship cycle (Karpov – Timman FIDE World…