| World Chess Championship 1948 | |
|---|---|
 USSR stamp marking the World Chess Championship | |
| Location | The Hague, Netherlands and Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Dates | 2 March – 17 May 1948 |
| Competitors | 5 from 3 nations |
| Winning score | 14 points of 20 |
| Champion | |
 Mikhail Botvinnik | |
The 1948 World Chess Championship was a quintuple round-robin tournament played to determine the new World Chess Champion following the death of the previous champion Alexander Alekhine in 1946. The tournament marked the passing of control of the championship title to FIDE, the International Chess Federation which had been formed in 1924. Mikhail Botvinnik won the five-player championship tournament, beginning the era of Soviet domination of international chess that would last over twenty years without interruption.