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Professional Chess Association

Index Professional Chess Association

The Professional Chess Association (PCA), which existed between 1993 and 1996, was a rival organisation to FIDE, the international chess organization. [1]

42 relations: Alexey Vyzmanavin, Association of Chess Professionals, Candidates Tournament, Chess, Classical World Chess Championship 1995, Classical World Chess Championship 2000, Development of the World Chess Championship, Elo rating system, Eric Lobron, FIDE, FIDE World Chess Championship 1996, FIDE World Chess Championship 1998, FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, FIDE World Chess Championships (1998–2004), Florencio Campomanes, Garry Kasparov, Gata Kamsky, Glossary of chess, History of chess, Human–computer chess matches, Ilya Smirin, Interzonal, Judit Polgár, List of chess games between Anand and Kramnik, List of World Chess Championships, Nigel Short, Outline of chess, PCA, Peter Svidler, Raymond Keene, Timeline of chess, Viswanathan Anand, World Chess Championship, World Chess Championship 1993, World Rapid Chess Championship, 1993 in chess, 1994 in chess, 1997 in chess, 1998 in chess, 31st Chess Olympiad, 32nd Chess Olympiad, 33rd Chess Olympiad.

Alexey Vyzmanavin

Alexey Borisovich Vyzmanavin (sometimes written Vyzhmanavin; Алексе́й Бори́сович Выжмана́вин; 1 January 1960 – 6 January 2000) was a Russian chess Grandmaster.

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Association of Chess Professionals

The Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) is a non-profit organisation which aims to protect the rights of professional chess players, address their concerns and to promote chess worldwide through the organisation of high-level chess tournaments and maintaining a ranking system of the top professionals.

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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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Classical World Chess Championship 1995

The Classical World Chess Championship 1995, known at the time as the PCA World Chess Championship 1995, was held from September 10, 1995, to October 16, 1995, on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center in New York City.

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Classical World Chess Championship 2000

The Classical World Chess Championship 2000, known at the time as the Braingames World Chess Championships, was held from 8 October 2000 – 4 November 2000 in London, United Kingdom.

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Development of the World Chess Championship

The concept of a world chess champion started to emerge in the first half of the 19th century, and the phrase "world champion" appeared in 1845.

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Elo rating system

The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess.

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Eric Lobron

Eric Lobron (born 7 May 1960) is a German chess grandmaster.

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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 World Chess Championship 1996

The FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 was a chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the World Chess Champion.

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FIDE World Chess Championship 1998

The FIDE World Chess Championship 1998 was contested in a match between the FIDE World Champion Anatoly Karpov and the challenger Viswanathan Anand.

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FIDE World Chess Championship 2004

The FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 was held at the Almahary Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, from June 18 to July 13.

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FIDE World Chess Championships (1998–2004)

The FIDE World Chess Championships from 1998 till 2004 followed a similar knockout format, radically different from previous World Chess Championship events.

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Florencio Campomanes

Florencio Campomanes (22 February 1927 – 3 May 2010) was a Filipino political scientist, chess player, and chess organizer.

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Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров,; Armenian: Գարրի Կիմովիչ Կասպարով; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, writer, and political activist, who many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time.

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Gata Kamsky

Gata Kamsky (Ğata Kamski; Гата Камский; Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974) is an American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion.

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Glossary of chess

This page explains commonly used terms in chess in alphabetical order.

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History of chess

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1500 years, although the earliest origins are uncertain.

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Human–computer chess matches

This article documents the progress of significant human–computer chess matches.

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Ilya Smirin

Ilya (or Ilia) Yulievich Smirin (איליה יוליביץ' סמירין; Илья Юльевич Смирин; born January 21, 1968, in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.

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Interzonal

Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by the World Chess Federation FIDE from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Judit Polgár

Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster.

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List of chess games between Anand and Kramnik

Viswanathan Anand (born 11 December 1969) and Vladimir Kramnik (born 25 June 1975) have played 92 classical chess games, of which Kramnik won eleven, Anand won ten, and 71 games were drawn.

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List of World Chess Championships

The following is a list of World Chess Championships including the hosting cities.

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Nigel Short

Nigel David Short (born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, chess columnist, chess coach and chess commentator.

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Outline of chess

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to chess: Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid).

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PCA

PCA or PCa may refer to.

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Peter Svidler

Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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Raymond Keene

Raymond Dennis Keene OBE (born 29 January 1948) is an English chess Grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a chess organiser, and a journalist and author.

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Timeline of chess

This is a timeline of chess.

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Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion.

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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 Chess Championship 1993

The World Chess Championship 1993 was one of the most controversial matches in chess history, with incumbent World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, and official challenger Nigel Short, splitting from FIDE, the official world governing body of chess, and playing their title match under the auspices of the Professional Chess Association.

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World Rapid Chess Championship

The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls.

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1993 in chess

Events in chess in 1993;.

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1994 in chess

Events in chess in 1994;.

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1997 in chess

Events in chess in 1997.

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1998 in chess

Events in chess in 1998.

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31st Chess Olympiad

The 31st Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, took place between November 30 and December 17, 1994, in Moscow, Russia.

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32nd Chess Olympiad

The 32nd Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, took place between September 15 and October 2, 1996, in Yerevan, Armenia.

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33rd Chess Olympiad

The 33rd Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, took place between September 26 and October 13, 1998, in Elista, Kalmykia, Russia.

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References

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

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