# Canonical recap data for First Chess World Championship Match (1886)
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slug: first-chess-world-championship
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1886/first-chess-world-championship"
title: First Chess World Championship Match
subtitle: Wilhelm Steinitz defeated Johannes Zukertort in the first official World Chess Championship, establishing the title that would dominate competitive chess for over a century.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1886-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1886
decade: 1880
country:
name: United States
slug: united-states
summaryShort: 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
summaryLong: 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.
heroImageUrl: "https://live.staticflickr.com/191/474574895_eeab1a458c_b.jpg"
heroImageCredit: "\"With Anatoly Karpov\" by Ramón Peco is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/."
importance: 72
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_cricket"
  title: First-class cricket
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- sports
metaDescription: 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 da
wikidataQid: Q950138
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260606072058/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_cricket"
  capturedAt: 2026-06-06
  label: First-class cricket
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_cricket"
