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World Chess Championship 2013

Index World Chess Championship 2013

The World Chess Championship 2013 was a match between reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Magnus Carlsen, to determine the 2013 World Chess Champion. [1]

35 relations: Candidates Tournament, Chennai, Chess, Chess World Cup 2011, Hyatt Regency Chennai, Jon Ludvig Hammer, José Raúl Capablanca, Krishnan Sasikiran, Lawrence Trent, List of World Chess Championships, Magnus Carlsen, Malcolm Pein, Nigel Short, Outline of chess, Pavel Eljanov, Peter Heine Nielsen, Radosław Wojtaszek, Robert Fontaine, Ruy Lopez, Sandipan Chanda, Sinquefield Cup, Tania Sachdev, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Word of the year (Norway), World Chess Championship, World Chess Championship 2012, World Chess Championship 2014, World Chess Championship 2016, Zwischenzug, 2013 in chess, 2013 in India, 2013 in Indian sports, 2013 in Norway, 2013 in sports.

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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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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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 World Cup 2011

The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess World Cup tournament.

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Hyatt Regency Chennai

Hyatt Regency Chennai is a five-star luxury hotel located on Anna Salai at Teynampet in Chennai, India.

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Jon Ludvig Hammer

Jon Ludvig Nilssen Hammer (born 2 June 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster.

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José Raúl Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.

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Krishnan Sasikiran

Krishnan Sasikiran (born 7 January 1981) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

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Lawrence Trent

Lawrence Trent (born 28 April 1986) is an English International Chess Master and commentator.

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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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Magnus Carlsen

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion.

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Malcolm Pein

Malcolm B. Pein (born 14 August 1960 in Liverpool) is a British chess International Master, chess organizer, author, and journalist.

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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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Pavel Eljanov

Pavel Eljanov (translit; born 10 May 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.

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Peter Heine Nielsen

Peter Heine Nielsen (born 24 May 1973) is a Danish chess grandmaster.

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Radosław Wojtaszek

Radosław Wojtaszek (born 13 January 1987, in Elbląg, Poland) is a Polish chess grandmaster.

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Robert Fontaine

Robert Fontaine (born 18 November 1980) is a French chess grandmaster and journalist.

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Ruy Lopez

The Ruy Lopez, also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Ruy Lopez is named after 16th-century Spanish bishop Ruy López de Segura.

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Sandipan Chanda

Sandipan Chanda (born 13 August 1983) is a chess Grandmaster hailing from the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Sinquefield Cup

The Sinquefield Cup is an annual, invite-only chess tournament in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, honoring Rex Sinquefield and his wife Jeanne, the founders of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

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Tania Sachdev

Tania Sachdev (born 20 August 1986) is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

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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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Vladimir Kramnik

Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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Word of the year (Norway)

Årets ord (Word of the year) is named by the Language Council of Norway, since 2012 in cooperation with the Norwegian School of Economics.

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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 2012

The World Chess Championship 2012 was a chess match between the defending world champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner of the 2011 Candidates Tournament.

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World Chess Championship 2014

The World Chess Championship 2014 was a match between the world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Viswanathan Anand, to determine the World Chess Champion.

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World Chess Championship 2016

The World Chess Championship 2016 was a chess match between reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Sergey Karjakin to determine the World Chess Champion.

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Zwischenzug

The zwischenzug (German: "intermediate move") is a chess tactic in which a player, instead of playing the expected move (commonly a), first interposes another move posing an immediate threat that the opponent must answer, and only then plays the expected move.

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2013 in chess

Events in chess during the year 2013.

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2013 in India

Events in the year 2013 in the Republic of India.

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2013 in Indian sports

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2013 in Norway

Events in the year 2013 in Norway.

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2013 in sports

2013 in sports is listing and describing the major sporting events from the current year: by month and by discipline.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2013

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