The first official World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886 ; the current World Champion is Viswanathan Anand.

The computer Deep Blue was the first machine player to overcome a reigning World Chess Champion when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.

* Gata Kamsky ( B. A 1999 ), Chess Grandmaster and former US Champion

* 1969 – Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster, current World Chess Champion

At age 14 Krush won the 1998 U. S. Women's Chess Championship to become the youngest U. S. Women's Champion ever.

* 2010 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian grandmaster and World Chess Champion ( b. 1921 )

* 1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.

* Dr Jonathan Sarfati, ( BSc ( Hons ), PhD ) author, New Zealand Chess Champion

* June 17 – After a 23 game match, Boris Spassky defeats Tigran Petrosian to become the World Chess Champion in Moscow.

** Samuel Reshevsky, seven-time U. S. Chess Champion ( b. 1911 )

** Mikhail Tal, eighth World Chess Champion ( b. 1936 )

* March 29 – Wilhelm Steinitz becomes first recognized World Chess Champion.

* Antoaneta Stefanova ( b. 1979 ), chess player and Women's World Chess Champion

He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972.

Chess960 ( or Fischer Random Chess ) is a variant of chess invented and advocated by former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer.

Fischer Random Chess is a variant of Shuffle chess defined by former World Champion Bobby Fischer and introduced formally to the chess public on June 19, 1996, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

One of the few chess grandmasters to devote himself seriously to computer chess was former World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, who wrote several works on the subject.

* Mikhail Botvinnik ( also three-time World Chess Champion )

* Miss Fatima, former British Women's Chess Champion.

* Elisabeth Bykova, Soviet former Women's World Chess Champion

He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion.

At the University of the City of New York, on May 29, 1859, John Van Buren, son of President Martin Van Buren, ended a testimonial presentation by proclaiming, " Paul Morphy, Chess Champion of the World ".

In Boston, at a banquet attended by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Louis Agassiz, Boston mayor Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr., Harvard president James Walker, and other luminaries, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes toasted " Paul Morphy, the World Chess Champion ".

In 2005 he wrote the book Chess for Success, relating his experiences and the positive aspects of chess.

While initially the series focused on software and technology topics ( and still does ), it later branched out to more general-interest titles, with topics as diverse as Acne For Dummies, Chess For Dummies, Fishing For Dummies and many other topics, including recent legal topics with Success as a Mediator For Dummies in 2012.

Chess for Success is a program for at-risk schools in Oregon.

Joshua Waitzkin is the author of two books: Attacking Chess: Aggressive Strategies, Inside Moves from the U. S. Junior Chess Champion ( 1995 ) and The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance ( 2008 ).

* Josh Waitzkin, Attacking Chess: Aggressive Strategies and Inside Moves from the U. S. Junior Chess Champion ( 1995 ), Fireside, ISBN 978-0-684-80250-3

This notation is recommended in Play Stronger Chess by Examining Chess 960: Usable Strategies for Fischer Random Chess Discovered.

His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

Chess was staged in London's West End Prince Edward Theatre in May 1986, and ran for almost three years.

Together with Ulvaeus, Andersson was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in a category " Outstanding Music " ( for the musical Chess ), and for a Tony Award in a category " Best Orchestrations " ( for musical Mamma Mia !).

* B52 ( chess opening ), the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code for a chess opening based on the Sicilian Defence

* Turbo GameWorks ( Turbo Pascal Source and Executables for Bridge, Go-Moku, and Chess )

Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another ( unspecified ) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.

FIDE's most visible activity is organizing the World Chess Championship ( overall and for women and juniors ), regional championships and the Chess Olympiad.

In 1927, the Soviet Union's Chess Federation established the title of Grandmaster of the Soviet Union, for their own players, since at that time Soviets were not competing outside their own country.

The modern system for awarding FIDE titles evolved from the " Dorazil " proposals, presented to the 1970 Siegen Chess Olympiad FIDE Congress.

Krush currently plays for the New York Knights in the U. S. Chess League, and both she and her ex-husband Canadian Grandmaster Pascal Charbonneau have played in the United Kingdom league for Guildford-ADC.

* Internet Chess Club, a website for playing chess

" This put the Polgárs in conflict with the Hungarian Chess Federation of the day, whose policy was for women to play in women-only tournaments.

In Chess for Dummies, James Eade commented on the game, writing, " If even world champions break the rules, what hope do the rest of us have?

In October and November 2002, Polgár alternated with Péter Lékó between first and second board for Hungary in the 35th Chess Olympiad.

In September 2005, Polgár once again made history as she became the first woman to play for a World Championship, at the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005.

In October 2006, Polgár scored another excellent result: tied for first place in the Essent Chess Tournament, Hoogeveen, Holland.

In May – June 2007 she played in the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007.

In November 2007, she took part in Chess Champions League – Playing for a Better World in Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain a tournament to raise funds for equipment for a Hospital in Mbuji-Mayi, Congo.