Below is a list of events in chess during the year 2009, as well as the men's and women's FIDE rankings of that year: January 1 – Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)...

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...

The Chess World Cup 2009 was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 20 November and 14 December 2009, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The...

Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...

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Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls...

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the...

A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by...

A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament...

notation is the standard method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess. It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely identify each...