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The World Chess Federation maintains the official rules of chess which are described in the FIDE Handbook. Chess is played on an 8x8 checkered board with alternating light and dark squares and the objective is to checkmate the opponent's king. Games can also end in a draw by agreement, stalemate, threefold repetition of position, or the fifty-move rule. The first modern chess tournament was held in London in 1851 and Viswanathan Anand is the current world champion.

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The World Chess Federation maintains the official rules of chess which are described in the FIDE Handbook. Chess is played on an 8x8 checkered board with alternating light and dark squares and the objective is to checkmate the opponent's king. Games can also end in a draw by agreement, stalemate, threefold repetition of position, or the fifty-move rule. The first modern chess tournament was held in London in 1851 and Viswanathan Anand is the current world champion.

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

Along with information on official chess tournaments, the rules are described in the FIDE Handbook, section Laws of Chess.[1] For a demonstration of the gameplay, see a sample chess game. Chess is played on a square board of eight rows (called ranks and denoted with numbers 1 to 8) and eight columns (called files and denoted with letters a to h) of squares. The colors of the sixty-four squares alternate and are referred to as "light squares" and "dark squares". The chessboard is placed with a light square at the right hand end of the rank nearest to each player Chess games do not have to end in checkmate either player may resign if the situation looks hopeless. If it is a timed game a player may run out of time and lose, even with a much superior position. Games also may end in a draw (tie). A draw can occur in several situations, including draw by agreement, stalemate, threefold repetition of a position, the fifty-move rule, or a draw by impossibility of checkmate (usually because of insufficient material to checkmate). As some forced checkmates cannot be done in less than 50 moves (see e.g. pawnless chess endgame and two knights endgame), the fifty-move rule is not applied everywhere,[4] particularly in correspondence chess. Chess is commonly believed to have originated in North-West India during the Gupta empire The first modern chess tournament was held in London in 1851 and won, surprisingly, by German Adolf Anderssen, 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. Currently, Anand is defending his title in the World Chess Championship 2010(Bulgaria) against the challenger Veselin Topalov. In 2008womens chess championship, the title went to Russian grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk, who, in the final, beat Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan

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47 2008 Gaziantep(turkey) Abhijeet Gupta India 48 2009 Puerto (argentina) Madryn Maxime Vachier-Lagrave France

World Girls U-20 Championship


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Magnus Carlsen (born Sven Magnus en Carlsen on 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy currently ranked number one in the world. Judit Polgr (born July 23, 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history. In 1991, she achieved the title of Grandmaster (GM) at the age of 15 years and 4 months. She was, at that time, the youngest person ever to do so. Polgr is ranked number 50 in the world on the May 2010 FIDE rating list Humpy Koneru; born 31 March 1987 in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh) is a chess grandmaster from India. Her January 2010 FIDE Elo rating is 2614, placing her number two in the world for women

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