World Chess Championship

This is an alternate World Chess Championship timeline since 1993, in which Garry Kasparov never split from FIDE.
== History ==
Anish Giri, winner of the 2020 world chess championship, refused to play the 2021 match against Ian Nepomniachtchi in protest of the match conditions and a disagreement with FIDE. As a result, Ian won the match on forfeit and instead played a match against Magnus Carlsen, runner-up in the 2021 candidates tournament and 2018 world championship.
Giri later came to terms with FIDE and negotiated to play a match with the winner of the Nepomniachtchi-Carlsen match, which was won by Nepo. A best-of-12 games Nepomniachtchi-Giri match is to take place in April 2022.
== List of matches (since 1993) ==
World Chess Championship (1993-2021)
Year 	Host country 	World champion 	Runner(s)-up 	Won (+) 	Lost (−) 	Draw (=) 	Format
1993 	United Kingdom 	Garry Kasparov 	Nigel Short 	6 	1 	13 	best-of-24in case of a draw the World Championship title defender keeps holding his title
1995 	United States 	Viswanathan Anand 	Garry Kasparov 	4 	2 	18 	best-of-20
1996 	Russia 	Viswanathan Anand 	Garry Kasparov 	3 	3 	10 	best-of-16
1998 	Netherlands and
Switzerland	Viswanathan Anand 	Garry Kasparov 	3 	2 	11 	best-of-14
2000 	India and
Iran 	Viswanathan Anand 	Vladimir Kramnik 	3 	1 	7 	best-of-12 + tiebreaks
2002 	Russia 	Viswanathan Anand 	Vladimir Kramnik 	3+2 	3 	6 	best-of-12 + tiebreaks
2004 	Switzerland 	Viswanathan Anand 	Alexei Shirov
Vladimir Kramnik 	10 points out of 14	10 points out of 14	10 points out of 14	8-player double round-robin tournament
2006 	Mexico 	Veselin Topalov 	Viswanathan Anand 	3+2 	3+1 	6+1 	best-of-12 + tiebreaks
2008 	Germany 	Vladimir Kramnik 	Viswanathan Anand
Boris Gelfand 	9 points out of 14 	9 points out of 14 	9 points out of 14 	8-player double round-robin tournament
2010 	Russia 	Viswanathan Anand 	Vladimir Kramnik 	2 	1 	7 	best-of-8 + tiebreaks
2012 	Bulgaria 	Vladimir Kramnik 	Viswanathan Anand 	3 	2 	6 	best-of-12 + tiebreaks
2013 	Argentina 	Magnus Carlsen 	Vladimir Kramnik 	3 	0 	7 	best-of-12 + tiebreaks
2014 	India 	Magnus Carlsen 	Viswanathan Anand 	3 	1 	7 	best-of-12 + tiebreaks
2016 	United States 	Magnus Carlsen 	Sergey Karjakin 	1+2 	1 	10+2 	best-of-12 + tiebreaks
2018 	United Kingdom 	Fabiano Caruana 	Magnus Carlsen 	0+3 	0 	12 	best-of-12 + tiebreaks
2020in this alternate timeline, the COVID-19 pandemic never happened	Russia 	Anish Giri 	Fabiano Caruana 	4 	2 	7 	best-of-14 + tiebreaks
2021 	United Arab Emirates	Ian Nepomniachtchi 	Anish Giri 	win on forfeit 	win on forfeit 	win on forfeit 	best-of-14 + tiebreaks
2021 	Indonesia 	Ian Nepomniachtchi 	Magnus Carlsen 	2+2 	2 	10+1 	best-of-14 + tiebreaks
2022 	TBD 	Ian Nepomniachtchi versus Anish Giri	Ian Nepomniachtchi versus Anish Giri	 	 	 	best-of-12 + tiebreaks