#Russia

The Khanty-Mansiysk round-robin named after the 12th world champion — a category-17 event in the Russian Far North that has run almost annually since 2002.

Moscow's traditional spring open — one of the strongest annual opens in chess for two decades, with a famously deep grandmaster field.

Russia's national championship final — 12-player round-robin held in autumn, the highest-profile annual chess event held in Russia.

The youngest grandmaster in history at twelve, the World Championship challenger at twenty-six, and one of the era's hardest players to beat with the black pieces.

The fourth world champion — a calculating attacker whose tactical depth set the standard for the modern combinative style.

Ten years world champion before he ever lost the title, and the player who made positional restraint a winning strategy.

Twenty years atop the rating list, fifteen years world champion, and the player who turned opening preparation into a science.

Russia's strongest current player — twice the world championship challenger, both times unsuccessful, both times after dominating Candidates Tournaments.

The seventh world champion — a positional virtuoso whose harmony of pieces was the model the next two generations studied.

The Russian world champion who took the title from Kasparov in London 2000 — and proved, with the Berlin Defense

The national governing body of chess in Russia — successor to the Soviet Chess Federation, currently in conflict with FIDE over its post-2022 status.