19 relations: British Chess Championship, British Rapidplay Chess Championships, Castling, Chess, Chess endgame, Consett, County Durham, David Howell (chess player), England, Fast chess, FIDE, FIDE titles, Grandmaster (chess), London Chess Classic, Ralf Åkesson, Vienna, Vladimir Kramnik, World Chess Championship, Zugzwang.
British Chess Championship
The British Chess Championship is organised by the English Chess Federation.
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British Rapidplay Chess Championships
The British Rapidplay Chess Championships is a rapid play chess congress held in the UK annually since 1986 (with the exception of 1993) under the auspices of the English Chess Federation.
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Castling
Castling is a move in the game of chess involving a player's king and either of the player's original rooks.
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Chess
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.
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Chess endgame
In chess and chess-like games, the endgame (or end game or ending) is the stage of the game when few pieces are left on the board.
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Consett
Consett is a town in the northwest of County Durham, England, about southwest of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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County Durham
County Durham (locally) is a county in North East England.
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David Howell (chess player)
David Wei Liang Howell (born 14 November 1990) is an English chess grandmaster and British champion in 2009, 2013 and 2014.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Fast chess
Fast chess (also known as speed chess) is a variation of chess in which each side is given less time to make their moves than under normal tournament time controls.
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FIDE
The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.
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FIDE titles
The World Chess Federation, FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), awards several performance-based titles to chess players, up to and including the highly prized Grandmaster title.
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Grandmaster (chess)
The title Grandmaster (GM) is awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.
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London Chess Classic
The London Chess Classic is a chess festival held at the Olympia Conference Centre, West Kensington, London.
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Ralf Åkesson
Ralf Åkesson (born 8 February 1961 in Oxelösund) is a Swedish chess grandmaster.
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Vienna
Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.
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Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship (sometimes abbreviated as WCC) is played to determine the World Champion in chess.
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Zugzwang
Zugzwang (German for "compulsion to move") is a situation found in chess and other games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because they must make a move when they would prefer to pass and not move.
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