World Chess Championship

Quality:

World Chess Championship - chess competition played to determine the world champion in chess. This event is the 370^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 280^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “World Chess Championship” in English Wikipedia has 91.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 146 references and 18 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 280^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 370^th most popular in events.

In June 2026 the article “World Chess Championship” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “World Chess Championship”, its content was written by 623 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1926 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

World Chess Championship is on the 280^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 370^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1778 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9756 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #241 in December 2024
• Global: #231 in April 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #208 in December 2024
• Global: #426 in December 2024

There are 44 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) World Chess Championship		91.6089
2	Catalan (ca) Campionat del món d'escacs		90.0034
3	Vietnamese (vi) Giải vô địch cờ vua thế giới		72.428
4	French (fr) Championnat du monde d'échecs		66.0878
5	Portuguese (pt) Campeonato Mundial de Xadrez		65.9758
6	Lithuanian (lt) Pasaulio šachmatų čempionatas		59.25
7	Italian (it) Campionato del mondo di scacchi		59.0855
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Verdsmeisterskapen i sjakk		48.6649
9	Czech (cs) Mistrovství světa v šachu		36.561
10	Serbian (sr) Светско првенство у шаху		36.3715

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) World Chess Championship		10 991 420
2	Spanish (es) Campeonato Mundial de Ajedrez		2 357 026
3	French (fr) Championnat du monde d'échecs		941 659
4	Italian (it) Campionato del mondo di scacchi		784 270
5	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa świata w szachach		770 783
6	Portuguese (pt) Campeonato Mundial de Xadrez		529 323
7	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по шахматам		305 739
8	Persian (fa) قهرمانی شطرنج جهان		246 323
9	Indonesian (id) Kejuaraan Catur Dunia		210 614
10	Chinese (zh) 世界國際象棋錦標賽		155 841

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) World Chess Championship		50 770
2	Spanish (es) Campeonato Mundial de Ajedrez		4 739
3	French (fr) Championnat du monde d'échecs		3 007
4	Italian (it) Campionato del mondo di scacchi		2 168
5	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa świata w szachach		1 457
6	Portuguese (pt) Campeonato Mundial de Xadrez		1 290
7	Persian (fa) قهرمانی شطرنج جهان		782
8	Chinese (zh) 世界國際象棋錦標賽		714
9	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по шахматам		688
10	Turkish (tr) Dünya Satranç Şampiyonası		574

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) World Chess Championship		623
2	Spanish (es) Campeonato Mundial de Ajedrez		157
3	French (fr) Championnat du monde d'échecs		156
4	Italian (it) Campionato del mondo di scacchi		109
5	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap schaken		64
6	Czech (cs) Mistrovství světa v šachu		60
7	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa świata w szachach		57
8	Portuguese (pt) Campeonato Mundial de Xadrez		51
9	Hungarian (hu) Sakkvilágbajnokság		50
10	Ukrainian (uk) Чемпіонат світу із шахів		41

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) World Chess Championship		6
2	Spanish (es) Campeonato Mundial de Ajedrez		2
3	Catalan (ca) Campionat del món d'escacs		1
4	Basque (eu) Munduko Xake Txapelketa		1
5	Italian (it) Campionato del mondo di scacchi		1
6	Arabic (ar) بطولة العالم للشطرنج		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Световно първенство по шахмат		0
8	Czech (cs) Mistrovství světa v šachu		0
9	Danish (da) Skakverdensmestre		0
10	Greek (el) Παγκόσμιο σκακιστικό πρωτάθλημα		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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