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World Chess Championship 1972
World Chess Championship 1972, the Match of the Century: Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky 12½–8½ in Reykjavík, Iceland, July–September 1972, becoming the 11th world champion and ending 24 years of Soviet dominance.
World Chess Championship 2013
World Chess Championship 2013, the FIDE title match in Chennai, India, 9-22 November 2013, in which Magnus Carlsen defeated Viswanathan Anand 6.5-3.5 in ten games to become World Champion.
World Chess Championship 2014
World Chess Championship 2014, the Carlsen–Anand rematch in Sochi, Russia: Magnus Carlsen defended the world title 6½–4½ over 11 games, with decisive games 2, 3, 6, and 11.
World Chess Championship 2016
World Chess Championship 2016, Carlsen vs Karjakin, New York, November 11–30, 2016. Classical 6–6; Carlsen won rapid tiebreaks 3–1 (final 9–7), retaining the title on his 26th birthday with a queen-sacrifice mate in Rapid Game 4.
World Chess Championship 2018
World Chess Championship 2018: Carlsen vs Caruana, London, 9–28 November 2018. Twelve classical games all drawn; Carlsen won rapid tiebreaks 3–0 for 6½–4½, his fourth title, first tiebreak-decided match.
World Chess Championship 2021
World Chess Championship 2021: Magnus Carlsen vs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Expo 2020 Dubai, 14-game FIDE title match. Carlsen won 7.5-3.5 in 11 games for his fifth title; Game 6 was the longest world championship game ever at 136 moves.
World Chess Championship 2023
World Chess Championship 2023: Astana match, April 7–May 1, 2023, between Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi for Carlsen's vacated title; Ding won 9.5–8.5 after a 2.5–1.5 rapid tiebreak, becoming the 17th world champion and first Chinese man to hold it.
World Chess Championship 2024
World Chess Championship 2024, the FIDE title match in Singapore (25 November to 13 December 2024) between Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju; Gukesh won 7.5-6.5 in game 14 to become the 18th and youngest world chess champion.
World Chess Championship 2026
World Chess Championship 2026: Gukesh D vs Javokhir Sindarov, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Geneva, 22 Nov to 12 Dec 2026; 14 classical games, first to 7.5 points, USD 2.5 million prize fund, youngest match in history.
World Choir Games
The World Choir Games, also known as the Choir Olympics, are a biennial international choir competition run by Interkultur since 2000, billed as the Olympic Games of choral music.
World cinema
World cinema: film regarded globally rather than through the Hollywood lens, an academic field alongside national cinema, encompassing Third Cinema, transnational production, and 9,628 feature films made worldwide in 2024.
World Cinema Project
The World Cinema Project, founded by Martin Scorsese in 2007 under The Film Foundation, restores and preserves neglected films from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East; 72 films from 34 countries restored, released via Criterion box sets.
World Circuit (record label)
World Circuit is a London-based independent record label specializing in Cuban and West African music, founded in 1986 and known for the Grammy-winning, 8-million-selling Buena Vista Social Club album.
World Clash
World Clash is an international sound system clash competition organized by Irish and Chin from 1998 to 2022, called the "Super Bowl" of sound clash.
World Class Championship Wrestling
World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), also Big Time Wrestling and World Class Wrestling Association, was the Fritz Von Erich family's Dallas Sportatorium promotion, 1966–1990, famed for 1980s TV innovation, the Von Erich–Freebirds feud, and the 1984 Parade of Champions.
World Class Wreckin' Cru
World Class Wreckin' Cru, a Compton electro-hop group formed in 1983 by Alonzo "Lonzo" Williams, featured Dr. Dre and DJ Yella before N.W.A and hit the Hot 100 in 1988 with "Turn Off the Lights".
World Climate Conference
The World Climate Conference is the name of three climate conferences held in Geneva by the World Meteorological Organization in 1979, 1990, and 2009, spanning science and policy.
World Climate Research Programme
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is an international scientific program, established in 1980, that coordinates research on Earth system variability and change for the benefit of society.
World climbing
World Climbing is the name adopted in December 2025 by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), founded 27 January 2007, governing Lead, Boulder, and Speed competition climbing, the Olympic sport, and Para Climbing worldwide.
World Commission on Dams
The World Commission on Dams was an independent 12-member body formed by the World Bank and IUCN in 1998 to review large dams, releasing its 2000 report Dams and Development.
World Congress of Philosophy
The World Congress of Philosophy, called the International Congress of Philosophy until 1968, is a conference held every five years since 1948 under the FISP.
World Council of Churches
The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of 356 member churches representing over 550 million Christians in 120 countries, founded in Amsterdam in 1948 and headquartered in Geneva.
World Crazy Golf Championships
World Crazy Golf Championships (WCGC), annual crazy golf tournament since 2003 at Hastings Adventure Golf, Hastings, England; 2026 pro event drew 162 players from 8 countries; Rocky Bullin is the 2026 champion.
World croquet federation
World Croquet Federation (WCF), international governing body for croquet, founded 15 July 1989 in London; runs AC and Golf Croquet World Championships, 29 members across 5 continents, president José Álvarez-Sala since 2024.
World Cup (Champions)
World Cup (Champions), also released as Champions (WC 26), is a June 1, 2026 song by streamer IShowSpeed for the 2026 FIFA World Cup; FIFA later added it to the official album, and it became the tournament's unofficial anthem.
World Cup (men's golf)
World Cup of Golf, originally the Canada Cup (1953-1967), a men's two-man national team golf tournament played 1953-2018; Argentina won the first edition in Montreal, the USA five straight 1960-1964, and Belgium's Detry and Pieters the last, in 2018.
World Cup of Darts
The World Cup of Darts, also called the PDC World Cup of Darts, is a national-teams darts tournament where two-player pairs compete entirely in doubles, first held in 2010.
World Cup of Hockey
World Cup of Hockey: NHL/NHLPA best-on-best international ice hockey championship, successor to the Canada Cup. Held 1996 (USA won), 2004 and 2016 (Canada won); fourth edition set for February 2028 in Canada and Czechia.
World Curling Championships
World Curling Championships: annual international curling titles (men's, women's, mixed doubles, juniors, seniors, wheelchair) run by World Curling, dating to the 1959 Scotch Cup, expanding from 13 to 18 teams in 2026–2027.
World Curling Tour
World Curling Tour (WCT): open circuit of men's, women's, and mixed doubles curling events under common WCT regulations, with team selection by WCT World Team Ranking and results feeding the World Curling Team Ranking System.