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World Senior Chess Championship

Index World Senior Chess Championship

The World Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. [1]

51 relations: Acqui Terme, Arco, Trentino, Arvier, Asian Senior Chess Championship, Austria, Bad Liebenzell, Bad Wörishofen, Bad Wildbad, Bad Zwischenahn, Biel/Bienne, Bled, Borislav Ivkov, Candidates Tournament, Chess, ChessBase, Condino, Elena Fatalibekova, European Senior Chess Championship, Evgeny Sveshnikov, FIDE, FIDE titles, Germany, Gladenbach, Gmunden, Grandmaster (chess), Grieskirchen, Halle (Saale), Italy, Jānis Klovāns, Julio Granda, Kamena Vourla, Katerini, Lignano Sabbiadoro, Ludmila Saunina, Mariánské Lázně, Mark Taimanov, Marta Litinskaya-Shul, Naumburg, Opatija, Rowy, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Swiss-system tournament, Tamar Khmiadashvili, Tie-breaking in Swiss-system tournaments, Tiebreaker, Vasily Smyslov, Viktor Korchnoi, Vladimir Bagirov, Wolfgang Uhlmann, World Chess Championship, World Junior Chess Championship, ..., Yuri Shabanov. Expand index (1 more) »

Acqui Terme

Acqui Terme (Äich) is a city and comune of Piedmont, northern Italy, in the province of Alessandria.

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Arco, Trentino

Arco (Arch) is a comune in Trentino-Alto Adige in northern Italy.

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Arvier

Arvier (Valdôtain: Arvì or Arvë; Arviér); is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy.

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Asian Senior Chess Championship

The Asian Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament organised by the Asian Chess Federation (ACF).

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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Bad Liebenzell

Bad Liebenzell is a spa town in the Nagold River valley, the northern part of the Black Forest.

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Bad Wörishofen

Bad Wörishofen is a spa town in the district Unterallgäu, Bavaria, Germany, known for the water-cure (hydrotherapy) developed by Sebastian Kneipp (1821–1897), a Catholic priest, who lived there for 42 years.

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Bad Wildbad

Bad Wildbad is a town in Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Bad Zwischenahn

Bad Zwischenahn (Low German: Twüschenahn) is a town and a municipality in the low-lying Ammerland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Biel/Bienne

Biel/Bienne (official bilingual wording;;; Bienna, Bienna, Belna) is a town and a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Bled

Bled (Veldes,Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 146. in older sources also Feldes) is a town on Lake Bled in the Upper Carniolan region of northwestern Slovenia.

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Borislav Ivkov

Borislav Ivkov (born November 12, 1933 in Belgrade) is a Serbian chess Grandmaster.

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Candidates Tournament

The Candidates Tournament is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess' international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship.

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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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ChessBase

ChessBase GmbH is a German company that markets chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates servers for online chess.

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Condino

Condino (Kunden) is a former comune, now a frazione of Borgo Chiese in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about southwest of Trento.

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Elena Fatalibekova

Elena Abramovna Fatalibekova (Елена Абрамовна Фаталибекова; née Rubtsova; born October 4, 1947, in Moscow) is a Russian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) since 1977.

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European Senior Chess Championship

The European Senior Chess Championship is a chess tournament for senior chess players organised by the European Chess Union (ECU).

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Evgeny Sveshnikov

Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov (Евгений Эллинович Све́шников; Latvian: Jevgēņijs Svešņikovs; born 11 February 1950) is a Russian grandmaster of chess and a chess author.

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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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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gladenbach

Gladenbach is a town in Hesse, Germany, in the west of Marburg-Biedenkopf district.

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Gmunden

Gmunden is a town in Upper Austria, Austria in the district of Gmunden.

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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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Grieskirchen

Grieskirchen is a town in Austria.

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Halle (Saale)

Halle (Saale) is a city in the southern part of the German state Saxony-Anhalt.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jānis Klovāns

Jānis Klovāns (April 9, 1935 – October 5, 2010) was a Latvian chess Grandmaster.

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Julio Granda

Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga (born February 25, 1967) is a Peruvian chess grandmaster and four-time champion of the Americas.

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Kamena Vourla

Kamena Vourla (Καμένα Βούρλα, lit. “Burnt Rushes”) is a town and a former municipality in Phthiotis, Greece.

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Katerini

Katerini (Κατερίνη, Kateríni) is a city in Central Macedonia, Greece, the capital of Pieria regional unit.

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Lignano Sabbiadoro

Lignano Sabbiadoro (Lignan) is a town and comune within the province of Udine, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north-eastern Italy.

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Ludmila Saunina

Ludmila Feodorovna Saunina (born 1952 in Yekaterinburg) is a Russian chess player, and a woman grandmaster.

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Mariánské Lázně

Mariánské Lázně (Marienbad) is a spa town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

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Mark Taimanov

Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (Марк Евгеньевич Тайманов; 7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016) was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971.

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Marta Litinskaya-Shul

Marta Ivanivna Litynska (Марта Іванівна Літинська; Марта Ивановна Литинская, Marta Ivanovna Litinskaya; born 25 March 1949 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

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Naumburg

Naumburg is a town in (and the administrative capital of) the district Burgenlandkreis, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Opatija

Opatija (Abbazia, German: Sankt Jakobi) is a town in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia.

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Rowy, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Rowy (German Rowe) is a village and seaside resort in the administrative district of Gmina Ustka, within Słupsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

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Swiss-system tournament

A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format which features a set number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than in a round-robin tournament.

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Tamar Khmiadashvili

Tamar Khmiadashvili (also Tamara, თამარ ხმიადაშვილი, born 27 November 1944) is a Georgian chess grandmaster.

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Tie-breaking in Swiss-system tournaments

Tie-break systems are used in chess Swiss system tournaments to break ties between players who have the same total number of points after the last round.

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Tiebreaker

In games and sports, a tiebreaker or tiebreak is used to determine a winner from among players or teams that are tied at the end of a contest, or a set of contests.

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Vasily Smyslov

Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (Василий Васильевич Смыслов; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, who was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.

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Viktor Korchnoi

Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (p; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (until 1976) and Swiss (since 1994) chess grandmaster and writer.

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Vladimir Bagirov

Vladimir Konstantinovich Bagirov (Վլադիմիր Կոնստանտինի Բաղիրյան; Влади́мир Константи́нович Баги́ров) (August 16, 1936 in Baku – July 21, 2000 in Finland) was a Soviet-Latvian grandmaster of chess, chess author, and trainer.

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Wolfgang Uhlmann

Wolfgang Uhlmann (born 29 March 1935) is a prominent German International Grandmaster of chess.

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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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World Junior Chess Championship

The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).

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Yuri Shabanov

Yuri Fyodorovich Shabanov (Юрий Фёдорович Шабанов, 11 November 1937 – 30 March 2010) was a Russian chess Grandmaster.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Senior_Chess_Championship

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