Ticket sales for the Salesforce FIDE World Championship are now open
World Championship Match The most anticipated chess event of the year, the match for the world crown, opens on 22 November in Geneva, Switzerland, with the first game scheduled for 24 November. Two 20-year-old prodigies, World Champion Gukesh D of India and Challenger Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan will battle for the World Championship title and the right to be called the leader of their generation. Seeing the play
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