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===FIDE World Championships 2019 and 2022===
{{main|FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019}}
{{main|FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022}}

On April 20, 2019, the first world championship in Fischer Random Chess officially recognized by FIDE was announced. It ended on November 2, 2019. In the finals, [[Wesley So]] defeated the former and four-time world chess champion [[Magnus Carlsen]] 13½–2½ (4 wins, 0 losses, 2 draws) to become the inaugural world Fischer Random Chess champion.

In the announcement, FIDE president [[Arkady Dvorkovich]] commented:<ref name="FIDE2">{{cite news|url=https://www.chess.com/news/view/chess-com-announces-fide-world-fischer-random-chess-championship|title=Chess.com Announces FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship|date=April 20, 2019|work=[[Chess.com]]}}</ref> <blockquote>It is an unprecedented move that the International Chess Federation recognizes a new variety of chess, so this was a decision that required to be carefully thought out. But we believe that Fischer Random is a positive innovation: It injects new energies and enthusiasm into our game, but at the same time it doesn't mean a rupture with our classical chess and its tradition. It is probably for this reason that Fischer Random chess has won the favor of the chess community, including the top players and the world champion himself. FIDE couldn't be oblivious to that: It was time to embrace and incorporate this modality of chess.</blockquote>

On August 19, 2022, the second world championship was announced for later in 2022, in Iceland. This is exactly half a century after the [[World Chess Championship 1972]] held in Iceland between Fischer and [[Boris Spassky]]. On October 30, [[Hikaru Nakamura]] played the finals against [[Ian Nepomniachtchi]], who had earlier knocked out [[Magnus Carlsen]]. Nakamura won in the [[armageddon (chess)|armageddon]] after drawing the match 2–2.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.frchess.com/news/hikaru-nakamura-is-the-2022-fide-world-fischer-random-champion|title=Hikaru Nakamura is the 2022 FIDE World Fischer Random Champion |last=Tisdall|first=Jonathan}}</ref>