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unusual facts about world chess champion



Manhattan Psychiatric Center

Wilhelm Steinitz, the first undisputed world chess champion, was hospitalized with mental illness possibly caused by syphilis, and died there on August 12, 1900.

Miyoko Watai

In 1973 she met then world chess champion Bobby Fischer, and visited him several times for the next three decades.

World Chess Championship 2008

The World Chess Championship 2008 was a best-of-twelve-games match between the World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, and the previous World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik.

World Chess Championship 2014

The World Chess Championship 2014 will be a match between the current world champion, Magnus Carlsen, and a challenger, to determine the 2014 World Chess Champion.


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Carol Jarecki

She was the Chief Arbiter at the PCA World Chess Championship match in 1995 in New York held at the top of the World Trade Center, between World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov and challenger Viswanathan Anand.

Georg Marco

However, he is probably best known for his work as editor of the Wiener Schachzeitung (de) from 1898 to 1916 and his annotations in the books Vienna Gambit Tournament (1903), Barmen 1905, Ostend 1906, Carlsbad 1907, Lasker-Tarrasch match for the World Chess Champion title in 1908, Baden on Vienna Gambit Tournament 1914, and Meister des Problems (Vienna 1924).

John Bosnitch

John Bosnitch volunteered to help 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) after Fischer was detained in Japan in 2004.

Justin Michael Jenkins

In 2006, Jenkins was invited by Susan Polgar (former World Chess Champion and Chess Olympiad Gold Medalist) after reading about his chess collection to be her full-time web Designer, web master, and artist.