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World Chess Championship 1948

1948 CE · Soviet Union, Asia · Sport

World Chess Championship 1948
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The 1948 World Chess Championship was a quintuple round-robin tournament played to determine the new World Chess Champion following the death of the previous champion Alexander Alekhine in 1946. The tournament marked the passing of control of the championship title to FIDE, the International Chess Federation which had been formed in 1924.

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