Sentence examples for classical champion from inspiring English sources

In the agreement, FIDE recognized Kramnik as the classical champion, Kramnik agreed to defend his classical title against a FIDE challenger in a unification match, and both sides agreed that the winner of that match would put the unified title on the line in FIDE's next championship tournament.

From then until 2006, there were two simultaneous World Champions and World Championships: the PCA or Classical champion extending the Steinitzian tradition in which the current champion plays a challenger in a series of many games, and the other following FIDE's new format of many players competing in a tournament to determine the champion.

The contest between "classical chess" champion Vladimir Kramnik and World Chess Federation (Fide) No 1 Veselin Topalov will produce an undisputed world champion and end a 13-year schism in the sport.

Following negotiations with FIDE, which recognized Kramnik as the "classical" world chess champion, he agreed to a unification match in 2006 with FIDE's challenger, the Bulgarian grandmaster Veselin Topalov, who had won the 2005 FIDE World Championship Tournament.

Acceptance of the legitimacy of this tournament as a title event was the result of a series of agreements between FIDE and Kramnik, who had become the "classical" world chess champion by defeating Kasparov in a match.

I tell you, this isn't the way to play against Garry!" Following negotiations with the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE; the international chess federation), which recognized Kramnik as the "classical" world chess champion, he agreed to a unification match in 2006 with FIDE's challenger, the Bulgarian grandmaster Veselin Topalov, who had won the 2005 FIDE World Championship Tournament.

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At Sheffield, he has championed classical work and musicals alongside a commitment to new writing.

Thomas, the University Professor of Composition in the Department of Music and the College, champions classical music as co-curator of the Chicago Ear Taxi Festival, and works with new musicians as founder and director of the UChicago Center for Contemporary Composition.

What remains, however, are two Bernstein gems that have found their way into the Classical arena -- championed and recorded by such superstars as Marilyn Horne and Frederica von Stade.

"He has been a fantastic champion of classical music across the BBC and has raised the profile of the Proms every year.