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| | Facts about topic: (World Chess Championship) |
 | | The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game (A game played on a specially designed board) chess (A game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king). | | | The world's strongest players were seeded into "Interzonal tournaments", where they were joined by players who had qualified from "Zonal tournaments". | | | The championship was conducted on a fairly informal basis through the remainder of the nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth: if a player thought he was strong enough, he would challenge the reigning world champion to a match. |
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| | List of chess world championship matches - Free Encyclopedia |
| | Anderssen was considered the best player in the world prior to this encounter. | | | 1948 World Championship Tournament: The death of Alekhine in 1946 left the World Champion title vacant. | | | 2000 Kramnik-Kasparov: Although defeated by Shirov in a candidates match earlier under another World Chess Championship sponsoring organization, Kramnik was hand picked by Kasparov, and was most likely the strongest player besides himself. |
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