FIDE Chess World Championship 2021 | Official Website
fideworldchampionship.comMagnus Carlsen. Magnus Carlsen has been the world’s top-ranked chess player for the past eleven years, achieving a peak rating of 2882 in 2014, which no one has reached since. After becoming World Champion in 2013 at the age of 22, he has defended the title three consecutive times – in 2014, 2016 and 2018 and is now looking for his fifth ...
World Chess Championship 2021 - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2021The challenger is Ian Nepomniachtchi, who qualified by winning the Candidates Tournament, an eight-player double-round robin tournament played in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Originally scheduled for 15 March to 5 April 2020, the tournament was halted at the halfway point on 26 March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The second half of the tournament was played between 19 April and 27 April 2021, also in Yekaterinburg.
FIDE announces qualification paths for Candidates ...
https://www.fide.com/news/109724.05.2021 · Monday, 24 May 2021 13:54. FIDE announces qualification paths for Candidates Tournament 2022. The International Chess Federation has approved the qualification criteria to select the eight players who will participate in the Candidates Tournament 2022. Like in the previous cycle, the goal has been to devise a democratic qualification system ...