How important is the World Championship Match? "It's important, but it's not everything, so I wouldn't overestimate that". by Ian Nepomniachtchi  General Information The 2023 FIDE World Championship Match took place in Astana, Kazakhstan from April 9th to May 1st. The match was held at the upscale luxury St. Regis Astana hotel, located in...

The biggest moment of every chess player is to play a World Chess Championship (WCC). On November 2018 is taking place this event in which the current World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen is facing his challenger Fabiano Caruana. Mikhail Tal, the 8th World Champion, was born on November 9th, 1936 in Riga. He probably would have been happy to know t...

The the COVID-19 pandemic delayed for 3 years the World Chess Champions Match. In last months of 2021 Norwegian World Champion Magnus Carlsen faced the Russian Challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi in a 14-game match that take place in the Dubai Exhibition Centre in the United Arab Emirates. FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament Traditionally this is the tourna...