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.

The reigning world Adult doubles champions are Tony Snyder of Waterloo and John Conrad of Poole.

The current King, Bhumibol Adulyadej, is the longest reigning current monarch in the world and in all of Thailand's history.

Currently the Emperor of Japan is the only remaining monarch in the world reigning under the title of Emperor.

Niki Lauda, the reigning world champion and only person ever to lap the full Nordschleife in under 7 minutes ( 6: 58. 6, 1975 ), proposed to the other drivers that they boycott the circuit in 1976 because of the safety arrangements.

By tradition, before a new Prime Minister can enter 10 Downing Street for the first time as its occupant, they are required to announce to the country and the world that they have ' kissed hands ' with the reigning monarch, and thus have become Prime Minister.

Because of difficulties in human lookahead — peculiar to Reversi because of the apparent strategic meaninglessness of internal disks ( making blindfold games — if not virtually impossible without enormous dedication — more difficult than is the case in, say, chess ) and the attractiveness of the game to programmers — the best Othello computer programs have easily defeated the best humans since 1980, when the program The Moor beat the reigning world champion.

The Giants under McGraw famously snubbed their first modern World Series chance in 1904 — an encounter with the reigning world champion Boston Americans ( now known as the " Red Sox ")— because McGraw considered the new American League as little more than a minor league.

Walter F. Hellman ( June 15, 1916 – July 28, 1975 ) was the longest reigning world American checkers champion.

The fin-de-siècle world in which this Pierrot resided was clearly at odds with the reigning American Realist and Naturalist aesthetic ( though such figures as Ambrose Bierce and John LaFarge were mounting serious challenges to it ).

Deep Thought, however, was still considerably below World Championship Level, as the then reigning world champion Garry Kasparov demonstrated in two sterling wins in 1989.

This game was, in fact, the first time a reigning world champion had lost to a computer using regular time controls.

In 1997 Deep Blue defeated World Champion Garry Kasparov, marking the first time a computer has defeated a reigning world chess champion in standard time control.

* 1989, Deep Thought loses two exhibition games to Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion.

Johnson's victory over the reigning world champion, Canadian Tommy Burns, in Sydney, Australia, came after stalking Burns around the world for two years and taunting him in the press for a match.

He was taken on by reigning world champions Ferrari for the end of the season and from 1978 to his death in 1982 drove for the Italian team.

The two other reigning world champions in his division at that time, Livingstone Bramble and Jimmy Paul, were reluctant to unify the crown with Camacho.

In this record race he beat the reigning Olympic champion and former world record holder Peter Snell of New Zealand.

* Hicham El Guerrouj, double gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, and the reigning world record holder for the 1, 500 metres, 3: 26. 00, the mile 3: 43. 13 and 2, 000 metres, 4: 44. 79.

Serrano then travelled in 1976 to Honolulu, Hawaii, to meet reigning WBA world jr. Lightweight champion, the Filipino Ben Villaflor.

The other competing program was Junior ; the reigning world computer chess champion Shredder declined an invitation to compete.

Following one more win ( a defence of his European Title against Farid Gallouze ), he finally got his world title try when the long reigning WBA featherweight champion, Eusebio Pedroza of Panama, came to London to put his title on the line at Loftus Road football stadium.

However, it wasn't until 1993 that reigning Formula One World Champion Nigel Mansell shocked the racing world by moving to the United States, winning the CART PPG IndyCar World Series Championship and only losing the 500 in his rookie year because of inexperience with green-flag restarts.

This thrust the young Karpov into the role of World Champion without having faced the reigning champion.

The Miami Marlins in front of a sellout crowd at the inaugural Opening Night game at Marlins Park against the reigning World champion St. Louis Cardinals.

However, the Seahawks would go on to defeat the reigning Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints in the Wild Card round, becoming the first team ever to win a playoff game with a losing record.

In the 2005 NLDS, the reigning National League champion St. Louis Cardinals, who finished the season with the majors ' best record, swept the Padres in three consecutive games.

After a sabbatical in 1992, Prost joined the Williams team, prompting reigning drivers ' champion Mansell to leave for CART.

Carey consistently won games off his own boot, including a game against reigning premiers the West Coast Eagles at the WACA in round 12, where he cut All Australian and Hall of Fame centre half-back Glen Jakovich to shreds and then against that year's eventual premiers in Essendon in round 15, where he played a dominant final quarter that marked him as an out-and-out champion.

Winning the first two rounds of the Playoffs, the Shock had to face two-time champion Los Angeles Sparks and reigning Finals MVP Lisa Leslie in the 2003 Finals.

The Shock had to face reigning champion Sacramento Monarchs in a five game series.

Facing the reigning champion Detroit Shock, the Mercury imposed their high-scoring offense with hopes of capturing their first title in franchise history.

Spassky lost a keenly fought match to Petrosian in Moscow, with three wins against Petrosian's four, with seventeen draws, though the last of his three victories came only in the twenty-third game, after Petrosian had ensured his retention of the title, the first outright match victory for a reigning champion since the latter of Alekhine's successful defences against Bogoljubov in 1934.

As the reigning champion, this time Prost, was again no longer racing, Hill retained his number ' 0 '.

Under the old Ring policy, there were only two ways that a boxer can win The Rings title: defeat the reigning champion ; or win a box-off between the magazine's number-one and number-two rated contenders ( or, sometimes, number-one and number-three rated ).

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

Attachment to the person of the reigning Sovereign is not sufficient.

The office of abbess is of considerable social dignity, and in the past, was sometimes filled by princesses of the reigning houses.

It is during this period that Bishop Asser applied to him the unique title of " secundarius ", which may indicate a position akin to that of the Celtic tanist, a recognised successor closely associated with the reigning monarch.

* 1294 – Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.

Ælle (; also Aelle or Ella ) is recorded in early sources as the first king of the South Saxons, reigning in what is now called Sussex, England, from 477 to perhaps as late as 514.

Subsequently HM Sultan Jamalul Ahlam Kiram ( 1863 – 1881 ), the 29th reigning Sultan of Sulu, leased North Borneo in 1878 to Gustavus Baron de Overbeck and Alfred Dent, representing the British North Borneo Company in what is now the Malaysian state of Sabah.

Cambridge is also the birthplace of Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej ( Rama IX ), who is the world's longest reigning monarch at age 82 ( 2010 ), as well as the longest reigning monarch in Thai history.

This divine right is called Daulat, and although presently, the notion of divine right is somewhat obsolete, one can still see banners and posters with pictures of the reigning sultan with words Daulat Tuanku, similar to the European proclamation of " Long live the King ", on streets and buildings.

Amy Kelly, in her article “ Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Courts of Love ”, gives a very plausible description of the origins of the rules of Eleanor's court: “ in the Poitevin code, man is the property, the very thing of woman ; whereas a precisely contrary state of things existed in the adjacent realms of the two kings from whom the reigning duchess of Aquitaine was estranged .”

Emperors have been known to come into conflict with the reigning shogun from time to time ; a notable example is the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156, in which former Emperor Sutoku attempted to seize power from the then current Emperor Go-Shirakawa, both of whom were supported by different clans of samurai.

Currently, the Emperor of Japan is the only reigning monarch with the title.

Although there were seven other reigning empresses, their successors were most often selected from amongst the males of the paternal Imperial bloodline, which is why some conservative scholars argue that the women's reigns were temporary and that male-only succession tradition must be maintained in the 21st century.

Although there were seven other reigning empresses, their successors were most often selected from amongst the males of the paternal Imperial bloodline, which is why some conservative scholars argue that the women's reigns were temporary and that male-only succession tradition must be maintained in the 21st century.

As with the seven other reigning empresses whose successors were most often selected from amongst the males of the paternal imperial bloodline, she was followed on the throne by a male cousin, which is why some conservative scholars argue that the women's reigns were temporary and that male-only succession tradition must be maintained in the 21st century.

In the Church of England, the reigning monarch holds the title Defender of the Faith and acts as Supreme Governor of the Church of England, although this is purely symbolic role.

This is why a public prosecution of a person whose surname is Smith would be referred to in writing as " R v Smith " ( or alternatively as " Regina v Smith " or " Rex v Smith " depending on the gender of the Sovereign reigning at the time of the case, Regina and Rex being Latin for " Queen " and " King " respectively ) ( and in either case may informally be pronounced as such ) and when cited orally in court would be pronounced " the Queen against Smith " or " the King against Smith " ( again depending on the gender of the reigning Sovereign ).