User:ArtDem001/List of World Champions in Chess
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Ding Liren has been the 17th, active world champion in chess since 2023. Officially, the first world champion was Wilhelm Steinitz (1886). Since 1948, world championship matches organizing has been the task of the International Chess Federation (FIDE).
In 1993, due to his controversy with FIDE, Garry Kasparov organized the Professional Chess Association (PCA). In response to that, FIDE stripped him of his champion title, having instead organized the match for world championship between two other challengers. As the result, there were now two different world champions, Garry Kasparov by PCA rules and Anatoly Karpov who won the FIDE match.
In 2006, a unification match occured between FIDE champion Veselin Topalov and 'classic chess'[1] champion Vladimir Kramnik, whereafter Kramnik was declared the absolute world champion.