The IBM international chess tournament was a series of very strong chess tournaments held in the Amsterdam, Netherlands from 1961 to 1981, and was sponsored...

There was a knockout tournament in London in 1849 and a tournament in Amsterdam in 1851. The first international chess tournament was held in London in...

The Candidates Tournament (or in some periods Candidates Matches) is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since...

Amsterdam 1956 was a chess tournament won by Vasily Smyslov. It was the Candidates Tournament for the 1957 World Chess Championship match between Smyslov...

the strongest chess tournaments in history. The following list is not intended to be an exhaustive or definitive record of tournament chess, but takes as...

The chess game between Emanuel Lasker and Johann Bauer played in Amsterdam in 1889 is one of the most famous on account of Lasker's sacrifice of both bishops...

notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...

Chess Tournament 2014 was the 76th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. It was held in Wijk aan Zee (with away days in Eindhoven and Amsterdam)...

World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had...

World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978. Euwe was born in the Watergraafsmeer, in Amsterdam. He studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam under...