World Senior Chess Championship [SEP] inception
World Senior Chess Championship
The World Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation.
Originally, the age limit was 60 years for the men, and 50 for the women. Since 2014, the Senior Championship is split in two different age categories with consequently two male and two female titles: 50+ and 65+, which require the participants to reach the age of 50 and 65 years by December 31 of the year of the event, respectively (these age
in 1996, Kramnik had the same FIDE rating as Anand (2799) but became number one due to more games played within the rating period. Kramnik's 12 years between world number-one rankings is the longest since the inception of the FIDE ranking system in 1971.
Chess career.
Chess career Early setbacks.
In the mid- and late-90s, Kramnik, although considered one of the strongest players in the world, suffered several setbacks in his attempts to qualify for a World Championship match. In 1994, he lost