About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 106. Chapters: Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli, Ajeeb, Anglo-American cable chess matches, A History of Chess, Belle (chess machine), Berlin Pleiades, Cafe de la Regence, Caissa, Chadarangam, Chaturanga, Chess (Northwestern University), Chess in early literature, Chess in Europe, Chess in the arts and literature, Collins Kids organization, Courier chess, Cox-Forbes theory, Deep Blue (chess computer), Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1996, Game 1, Development of the Women's World Chess Championship, Development of the World Chess Championship, El Ajedrecista, Fast chess, Gottingen manuscript, Hartwig Cassel, Hypermodernism (chess), Internationaler Fernschachbund, Interregnum of World Chess Champions, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, John W. Collins, Kaissa, Karl Gottlieb von Windisch, Kotok-McCarthy, Lewis chessmen, List of chess-related deaths, List of chess games, List of chess historians, List of world records in chess, Mac Hack, Nathaniel Cook, Richard Genee, Romantic chess, Scachs d'amor, Sessa (chaturanga), Shatranj, Simpson's-in-the-Strand, Soviet Chess School, Staunton Morphy controversy, Strobeck, Tamerlane chess, The Chess Players, The Turk, Timeline of chess, Traite des Amateurs, USA vs. USSR radio chess match 1945, Versus de scachis, World Amateur Chess Championship. Excerpt: The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest this title. The official world championship is generally regarded to have begun in 1886, when the two leading players in Europe and the United States, Johann Zukertort and Wilhelm Steinitz respectively, played a match. From 1886 to 1946, the champion set the terms, requiring any challenger to raise a sizable stake and defeat the champion in a match in order to become the new world champion. From 1948 to 1993, the championship was administered by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. In 1993, the reigning champion (Garry Kasparov) broke away from FIDE, which led to the creation of the rival PCA championship. The titles were unified at the World Chess Championship 2006. The current world champion is Viswanathan Anand, who won the World Chess Championship 2007 and successfully defended his title against former world champion Vladimir Kramnik in the World Chess Championship 2008, against Veselin Topalov in the World Chess Championship 2010 and against Boris Gelfand in the World Chess Championship 2012. In addition, there is a separate event for women only, for the title of Women's World Champion, as well as separate competitions and titles for juniors (under 20 years of age), seniors (60+ for men, 50+ for women), and computers. Computers are barred from competing for the open title. The concept of a world chess champion started to emerge in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the phrase "world champion" appeared in 1845. From this time onwards various players were acclaimed as world champions, but the first contest that was defined in advance as being for the world championship was the match between Steinitz and Zukertort in 1886. Until 1948 world championship contests were matches arranged privately between the players. As a result the players also had to arrange the funding, in the form of stakes provided by enthusiasts
