In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.

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

In addition to the World Championship, there are the Women's World Championship, the Junior World Championship, the World Senior Championship, the Correspondence Chess World Championship, the World Computer Chess Championship, and Blitz and Rapid World Championships.

Chess is a recognized sport of the International Olympic Committee, and international chess competition is sanctioned by the World Chess Federation.

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

The official rules of chess are maintained by the World Chess Federation.

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

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

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

Fan posing with 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks World Series Championship Trophy

In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) is a round in the postseason that determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to Major League Baseball's championship, the World Series, facing the winner of the American League Championship Series.

The winner of the series advances to play the winner of the National League Championship Series in baseball's championship, the World Series.

Between 1957 and 1980 Granaglia won a record 13 World Championships, 12 European Championship titles, and 46 Italian National Championships.

However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the " Curse of the Bambino " after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees two years after their world championship in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in.

After sweeping Minnesota in the American League Championship Series, Baltimore was shocked by losing to the New York Mets in a five-game World Series.

The IIHF World U20 Championship typically begins on 26 December, while the Spengler Cup also begins on 26 December in Davos, Switzerland ; the Spengler Cup competition includes HC Davos, Team Canada, and other top European Hockey teams.

Jack Brabham won his third title in 1966, becoming the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car carrying his own name ( cf Surtees, Hill and Fittipaldi Automotive ).

This graph shows the proportion of world population in extreme poverty 1981 – 2008 according to the World Bank.

* Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great, His Life and World ( New York: Ballantine, 1981 ).

From Roy Ayers in the 1970s to Randy Weston in the 1990s, there have been collaborations which have resulted in albums such as Africa: Centre of the World by Roy Ayers, released on the Polydore label in 1981.

Construction began on the first residential building in 1980, followed in 1981 with the start of construction on the World Financial Center.

Olympia and York, of Toronto, was named as the developer for the World Financial Center in 1981, who then hired Cesar Pelli as the lead architect.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

* In 1981, Attlee again entered British popular culture as one of the famous English people taunted by name in Bjørge Lillelien's legendary commentary immediately after Norway defeated England in a FIFA World Cup qualifier.

The first public demonstration was on the BBC television program Tomorrow's World when The Bee Gees ' album Living Eyes ( 1981 ) was played.

Das Boot ( 1981 ) focused on the German viewpoint of World War II.

The Marlins became the first opposing team to win a Series championship on the field at Yankee Stadium since the 1981 World Series, when the Los Angeles Dodgers did it.

She served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway ( 1981, 1986 – 89, 1990 – 96 ), and has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization.

In the 1981 film History of the World, Part I, Moses is portrayed by Mel Brooks.

* 1981 – Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer, German World War II naval adjutant to Adolf Hitler ( b. 1900 )

Since World War II, Iraq's use of mustard gas against Iranian troops and Kurds ( Iran-Iraq war of 1981 – 1988 ) has been the only large-scale use of any chemical weapons.

The Phillies made the playoffs twice more in the 1980s after their Series win, in 1981 and 1983, where they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series, but they would soon follow these near-misses with a rapid drop back into the basement of the National League.

As Romania's foreign debt sharply increased between 1977 and 1981 ( from 3 to 10 billion US dollars ), the influence of international financial organisations such as the IMF and the World Bank grew, conflicting with Nicolae Ceauşescu's autarchic policies.

* Monsieur Rimbaud in History of the World, Part I ( 1981 ).

He was nominated for two Academy Awards for the 1981 World War II submarine warfare film Das Boot.

The World Games, first held in 1981, are an international multi-sport event, meant for sports, or disciplines or events within a sport, that are not contested in the Olympic Games.

ZZ Top's grueling Afterburner World Tour lasted well into 1987, which also saw the release of The ZZ Top Sixpack, a three-disc collection of ZZ Top's albums from 1970 to 1981, with the exception of Degüello.

* August 21 – Sir Richard O ' Connor, British general in World War II ( d. 1981 )

* Mahan, Brian and L. Dale Richesin, The Challenge of Liberation Theology: A First World Response, 1981, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York.

* German submarine U-96 ( 1940 ), a Type VIIC submarine that served in the Second World War until sunk on 30 March 1945 ; the subject of the director Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 film, Das Boot.

The International Racquetball Federation ( IRF ) governs the World Racquetball Championships, which were first held in 1981 in conjunction with the first World Games.