The FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 was a chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the World Chess Champion.
Read more about FIDE World Chess Championship 1996: Background, 1993 Interzonal Tournament, 1994-96 Championship Tournament, 1996 Championship Final
Famous quotes containing the words fide, world and/or chess:
“Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)