16 min
Hall Of Fame - 11: Vladimir Kramnik
Kramnik defeated Kasparov in 2000 to become the Classical World Champion.
12 min
Hall Of Fame - 12: Tigran Petrosian
Tigran Petrosian was the World Champion from 1963 to 1969.
11 min
Hall Of Fame - 13: Wilhelm Steinitz
Wilhelm Steinitz is the first undisputed World Champion.
13 min
Hall Of Fame - 14: Vasily Smyslov
Smyslov is the 7th World Champion.
14 min
Hall Of Fame - 15: Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Tal is the eighth World Champion.
15 min
Hall Of Fame: 16: Boris Spassky
Boris Spassky is the 10th World Champion.
13 min
Hall Of Fame - 17: Max Euwe
Max Euwe is the fifth official World Champion.
15 min
Hall Of Fame - 18: François-André Danican Philidor
Philidor is by far the greatest player of the 18th century.
15 min
Hall Of Fame - 19: Fabiano Caruana
Fabiano Caruana is the current World Number 2.
20 min
Hall Of Fame - 20: Viktor Korchnoi
Viktor Korchnoi is widely considered one of the greatest players to never become World Champion.
18 min
Hall Of Fame - 21: Veselin Topalov
Veselin Topalov was the FIDE World Champion in 2005 and lost World Championship matches against Vladimir Kramnik in 2006 and Vishy Anand in 2010.
13 min
Hall Of Fame - 22: Paul Keres
The Estonian master never got to the World Championship, but had an amazingly long and successful career.
17 min
Hall Of Fame - 23: Akiba Rubinstein
Akiba Rubinstein was one of the world's best players in the early 20th century and leaves behing an impressive legacy of endgame technique and ideas.
11 min
Hall Of Fame - 24: Howard Staunton
Howard Staunton was considered the world's leading player from 1843-1851. He also gave us the Staunton chess set and the "Chess players handbook".
14 min
Hall Of Fame - 25: David Bronstein
David Bronstein is best known for tying the 1951 World Championship match against Botvinnik, while also giving the chess world some highly influential books.
12 min
Hall Of Fame - 26: Adolf Anderssen
Anderssen won two big tournaments in 1851 and 1862, as well as giving the world the "Immortal Game".
14 min
Hall Of Fame - 27: Johannes Zukertort
Zukertort lost to Steinitz in the first World Championship match in 1886, but was a dominant player in the 1870s and 1880s.
10 min
Hall Of Fame - 28: Louis Charles Mahe de la Bourdonnais
The French master was considered to be the strongest player in the world in the early 1800s.
21 min
Hall Of Fame - 29: Bent Larsen
The Great Dane makes the Top 30. Another Great Dane explains why.
13 min
Hall Of Fame - 30: Samuel Reshevsky
Reshevsky was a contender for the World Championship from the mid-1930s to the mid-60s.
7 min
Hall Of Fame - 31: Efim Bogoljubov
Another veteran, who played two World Championship matches.
9 min
Hall Of Fame - 32: Reuben Fine
He did just fine in 1938.
10 min
Hall Of Fame - 33: Levon Aronian
The Armenian Superstar requires no introduction
10 min
Hall Of Fame - 34: Siegbert Tarrasch
Dr. Tarrasch was maybe the world's best player in the 1890s.
11 min
Hall Of Fame - 35: Vasyl Ivanchuk
Widely considered a chess genius, Ivanchuk enters the list.