In Europe Morphy was generally hailed as world chess champion.

A world chess champion through most of the 1920's, he envisioned how the game would end and improvised his way to that point.

An attempt to organize a match between two claimants to the title of world chess champion has collapsed.

That is a remarkable revelation from a man who was world chess champion from 1975 to 1985.

However, a powerful custom-made computer beat the world chess champion.

She is Ukraine's first women's world chess champion.

Deep Blue, with its capability of evaluating 200 million positions per second, was the fastest computer that ever faced a world chess champion.

Menchik was the first women's world chess champion.

He became the world amateur chess champion in 1928, at The Hague, with a score of 12/15.

Gary Kasparov, the world chess champion, will lead the international field of 16 top players, who will have only 25 minutes to complete each match.