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First Chess World Championship Match

Wilhelm Steinitz defeated Johannes Zukertort in the first official World Chess Championship, establishing the title that would dominate competitive chess for over a century.

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First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two teams of eleven players each, and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each, although in practice a team might play only one innings or none if the match is abandoned.

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