World Champions - Intro
World Champions are the best people to learn from. After all, they were the best in the world! In this series of blog posts I will start with Steinitz and end with Anand. I will provide a short biography and their best game. Fischer took this method, going over 100 games from each world champion! I will only provide 1-2 games, and hopefully you'll learn so much that I'll have to include you!
Undisputed world champions 1886–1993
# | Name | Year | Country | Approx. Age |
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1 | Wilhelm Steinitz | 1886–1894 | Austria-Hungary United States |
50–58 |
2 | Emanuel Lasker | 1894–1921 | Germany | 26–52 |
3 | José Raúl Capablanca | 1921–1927 | Cuba | 33–39 |
4 | Alexander Alekhine | 1927–1935 1937–1946 |
France Russian émigré |
35–43 45–54 |
5 | Max Euwe | 1935–1937 | Netherlands | 34–36 |
6 | Mikhail Botvinnik | 1948–1957 1958–1960 1961–1963 |
Soviet Union (Russia) | 37–46 47–49 50–52 |
7 | Vasily Smyslov | 1957–1958 | Soviet Union (Russia) | 36 |
8 | Mikhail Tal | 1960–1961 | Soviet Union (Latvia) | 24 |
9 | Tigran Petrosian | 1963–1969 | Soviet Union (Armenia) | 34–40 |
10 | Boris Spassky | 1969–1972 | Soviet Union (Russia) | 32–35 |
11 | Robert J. Fischer | 1972–1975 | United States | 29–32 |
12 | Anatoly Karpov | 1975–1985 | Soviet Union (Russia) | 24–34 |
13 | Garry Kasparov | 1985–1993 | Soviet Union Russia |
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