World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess.
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10 Facts About World Chess Championship
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In 1887, the American Chess Congress started work on drawing up regulations for the future conduct of world championship contests.
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World Chess Championship won a return match against Steinitz in 1897, and then did not defend his title for ten years, before playing four title defences in four years.
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World Chess Championship comfortably defeated Frank Marshall in 1907 and Siegbert Tarrasch in 1908.
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World Chess Championship then defeated Dawid Janowski in the most one-sided title match in history later in 1910.
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World Chess Championship claimed that Petrosian, Efim Geller and Paul Keres had prearranged to draw all their games, and that Viktor Korchnoi had been instructed to lose to them.
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World Chess Championship refused to play in the 1969 US Championship, which was a Zonal Tournament.
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World Chess Championship went into seclusion and did not play chess in public again until 1992, when Spassky agreed to participate in an unofficial rematch for the World Championship.
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World Chess Championship defended his title twice against ex-Soviet Viktor Korchnoi, first in Baguio, the Philippines, in 1978 then in Merano in 1981 .
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World Chess Championship eventually lost his title in 1985 to Garry Kasparov, whose aggressive tactical style was in sharp contrast to Karpov's positional style.
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