The below is a list of events in chess in the year 1940. 17 January 1940 – Dawid Przepiórka, Stanisław Kohn, Moishe Lowtzky, Achilles Frydman, Abkin, Młynek...

The 1940 Soviet Chess Championship was the 12th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 5 September to 3 October 1940 in Moscow. The tournament was...

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...

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). In a chess...

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...

tournaments because he was an avid chess player. The competition began when he organized a chess congress in Kraków on 3 November 1940. Six months later Frank announced...

title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain...

as a chess variant. In addition, fairy chess pieces are used in fairy chess, an area of chess problems involving changes to the rules of chess. The following...

d'Échecs was a French monthly chess magazine published from 1867 to 1940. One of the more famous chess serials, it was established in Paris by Jean-Louis Preti...

organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition. FIDE...