All World Chess Champions 1886-2021. Viswanathan Anand, Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen

Winners of all World Chess Championships in 1886-2021 years.
Information about chess matches, scores, champions and runners-up.
Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Bobby Fischer, Mikhail Tal, Alexander Alekhine, José Raúl Capablanca, Veselin Topalov
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[@williamrobert9898]

This masterpiece should have more than a million views at the very least

[@rauladelino7568]

truth

[@fabianvazquez5114]

No

[@muhammadafifharist4602]

Leading players before the World Chess Championships 1. Ruy Lopez : (1559-1575) 2. Leonardo di Bona (1575) 3. Paolo Boi (1575) 4. Alessandro Salvio (1600) 5. Gioachino Greco (1620-1634) 6. Legall de Kermeur (1730-1755) 7. Francois-Andre Danican Philidor (1755-1795) 8. Alexandre Deschapelles (1815-1821) 9. Louis-Charles Mahe (1821-1840) 10. Howard Staunton (1843-1851) 11. Adolf Anderssen (1851-1858) 12. Paul Morphy (1858-1862) 13. Adolf Anderssen (1862-1866) 14. Wilhelm Steinitz (1866-1886) 15. Johannes Zukertort (1883-1886) Undisputed world champions (1886-1993) 1. Wilhelm Steinitz (1886-1894) 2. Emanuel Lasker (1894-1921) 3. Jose Raul Capablanca (1921-1927) 4. Alexander Alekhine (1927-1935) 5. Max Euwe (1935-1937) (4). Alexander Alekhine (1937-1946) 6. Mikhail Botvinnik (1948-1957) 7. Vasily Smyslov (1957-1958) (6). Mikhail Botvinnik (1958-1960) 8. Mikhail Tal (1960-1961) (6). Mikhail Botvinnik (1961-1963) 9. Tigran Petrosian (1963-1969) 10. Boris Spassky (1969-1972) 11. Bobby Fischer (1972-1975) 12. Anatoly Karpov (1975-1985) 13. Garry Kasparov (1985-1993) Classical (PCA/Braingames) world champions (1993-2006) 1. Garry Kasparov (1993-2000) 2. Vladimir Kramnik (2000-2006)

[@GodFather-rm6en]

Who cares, winner are winners of world chess championship

[@muhammadafifharist4602]

@@GodFather-rm6en Hey, that's pretty good

[@vamshiyadav9030]

Who's here after Gukesh Won at Candidates ?

[@palanisamypushpa1133]

Me

[@martinhh763]

You mean the 18th world chess champion?

[@vamshiyadav9030]

@@martinhh763 No more like 18th world chess championship 🏆 runner up🥇

[@rax1899]

@@martinhh763people like you really suck

[@UsuarioOpinativokk]

@@martinhh763 we'll see... Ding vs Gukesh

[@AdityaPal_sciencepal]

Excellent video showing the few individuals who have managed to etch their names in history. Good job !

[@muhammadafifharist4602]

FIDE world champions (1993-2006) 1. Anatoly Karpov (1993-1999) 2. Alexander Khalifman (1999-2000) 3. Viswanathan Anand (2000-2002) 4. Ruslan Ponomariov (2002-2004) 5. Rustam Kasimdzhanov (2004-2005) 6. Veselin Topalov (2005-2006) Undisputed world champions (2006-present) 1. Vladimir Kramnik (2006-2007) 2. Viswanathan Anand (2007-2013) 3. Magnus Carlsen (2013-Present)

[@allegory4256]

2023 Ding Liren

[@muhammadafifharist4602]

@@allegory4256 Okay 👍

[@fifiwoof1969]

How come Magnus Carlsen wasn't in this year's World Championship? I thought current champion was automatically in the next final. Was he beaten in the lead up to the final? Did he withdraw? Bobby Fischer refused to compete against Karpov in 1975 and Karpov won by forfeit. What happened this time please?

[@rogerforsberg3910]

Excellent enumeration, Mr Harist -- thank you!!

[@muhammadafifharist4602]

@@rogerforsberg3910 You're welcome Mr Forsberg

[@Weebi1242]

Its really cool that you added clips from every match

[@wchambers3849]

Great video. Such rich & wonderful history! Thank you!

[@Unpug]

An absolute masterpiece! Now that Ding has been included in the history book, I’m very excited to see where Chess will be going with its recent popularity amongst younger players!

[@vibovitold]

i don't know if he will have an impact comparable with Anand in India. China already has their own chess variant, which is immensely popular. those Chinese top players are a very large tip of a very small iceberg.

[@jackclarke9209]

@@vibovitold Looking at it now, I think Gukesh D will become the next dominant force over the sport. I see at least 4 World Champions from him tbh.

[@abictor3312]

Wow dude, here after Gukesh winning candidates....hope he becomes world champion​@@jackclarke9209

[@blazoraptor3392]

​@@jackclarke9209 on the dot

[@jougetsu]

@@jackclarke9209 4 ? no way. yes he'll probably be the next wc, unless ding gets close to his prime again. but gukesh needs more time to be consistent enough

[@TheMosayat]

amazing video thank you so much

[@culprit6099]

what a presentation hats off

[@frankojudoka]

USSR/Russian players tried to beat each other. So much depth.

[@verifiedgentlemanbug]

this is a masterpiece

[@ibrahimrahi5388]

Welcome Ding Liren in this prestigious List !!!!!

[@kucingnyasar3687]

​@pianist1408 ding liren,the new world championship

[@kucingnyasar3687]

@pianist1408 bruh?

[@d74rjm]

@@pianist-yx6ot who is this guy, Niemann?

[@MiccaPhone]

@@d74rjm Niemann is a proven conman - I encourage you to make your own research to have this confirmed. He even admitted cheating in several games, and somebody like him cannot be trusted to play legitly just because he says "no I did not cheat this time". Anybody believing Niemann is very naive - and of course there are many naive people around in the world.

[@MiccaPhone]

@pianist1408 A proven conman like Niemann who had provenly, and even admittedly, cheated in various chess games, can hardly be considered a "champion". Rather is he a disgrace for the chess sport. Only naive people believe he really beat those grand masters without cheating.

[@007vinx]

What a wonderful video !! Congratulations to the creator !!!

[@fakeplaystore7991]

One thing you have to concede: despite all the nonsense with FIDE and whatnot, the World Chess Champions gallery represents accurately the best players of their time.

[@user-pg4ij1vj3x]

What about know with Magnus?

[@Friton3v1]

Im impressed by the quality of this vid..

[@WorldChessComunity-gh3xx]

Great..I love this❤

[@marcelogonzalezpereira7974]

Wonderfull vídeo !!

[@robbymora9989]

Gran trabajo 🤝🏼

[@rogerforsberg3910]

Thank you for this SUPERB historical rendering of chess' champions through the ages! Among other things it should remind chess aficionados of the consistent brilliance of champions such as Emanuel Lasker, Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik, Anatoly Karpov & Magnus Carlsen. Nonetheless, they are only a few centimeters ahead of 3 of my favorites, Morphy, Capablanca & Tal.

[@henryseidel5469]

Isn't it difficult to compare chess players from different eras ?? I even think it not possible at all.

[@rogerforsberg3910]

@@henryseidel5469 It's not at all difficult to compare chess players from different eras, Mr S. The difficulty is doing the comparison with any level of accuracy or legitimacy. Even though I've played & studied chess for 65+ years my comparisons between players are mostly speculative. I'm certain that there are other chess players who would rank Morphy, Capo & Tal differently.

[@henryseidel5469]

@@rogerforsberg3910 That is what I mean. We have an idea of how popular they were/are in their period of time, but we cannot really compare their abilities for they never played against each other. The theory of chess has developed gradually since then, so have aids. Especially computers. Anyway, you are right saying it is always speculative and depends on personal favourites. I favour Bobby Fischer because he fought against an entire Soviet chess army - and won.

[@rogerforsberg3910]

@@henryseidel5469 "Anyway, you are right saying it is always speculative and depends on personal favourites." I suspect that in this respect you & I are on the same page, Mr S. Fischer was an absolutely superb & imaginative player, and the only reason that I may not rank him as high as my 3 favorites is because he and I are both Americans, very close to each other in age, and my chess-playing chums would have accused me of being a "homer" (American slang for someone whose bias for the local team is based merely on being a local person himself).

[@henryseidel5469]

@@rogerforsberg3910 Of course we are on the same page....chessplayers always are.....lol And thanks for explaining the term 'homer'. Never heard it, but from the context I had already made it out semantically and could guess what you mean. In chess 'homers' are not as dangerous as in politics, I suppose. There you find many guys who are good patriots but very bad historians. I often played chess in Russia, and one day the hosts took us to the Chigorin school of chess in St.Peterburg. There were the portraits of all chess champions, and they especially honoured Bobby Fischer. I asked them why, and they said he was the one with the largest 'distance' to his competitors. I was indeed surprised about their attitudes for Fischer had beaten all the Soviets. But it showed me that real chess freaks are far away from political prejudice. Which I think is good for our complicated world. So do not feel ashamed to be a 'homer'.....lol ! In the case of Bobby Fischer you can be proud of it. I play up to about 2200, by the way. My favourites are the Caro Kann, the Queens pawn London system, the Colle-Zukertort system and Queens gambit declined. I have never opened with the King's pawn in my whole chess career. My very best wishes to you.

[@saurabhgavali3935]

Best video.....I have ever seen

[@BrazilianDaftPunkFan]

Another impressive thing to look in this video is how flags changed a lot through time.

[@Scratch3.0Tutorials]

Emanuel Lasker was way ahead of his time

[@user-kt9ez9fy5f]

Пока СССР был жив - это,такое ощущение,что было соревнования внутри одной страны...Браво!!!

[@danilpankov8114]

Так оно и было.

[@ambikas79]

Soviet anthem

[@SergeiMisharin-ru4wt]

поэтому их обосрал потом джеймс фишер. из-за того что они по догу между собой засушивали игры в ничью. и я не удивлен что он не пошел дальше защищать свой титул. так как знал про их гнилую систему

[@VictorBat.]

Welcome Gukesh

[@chinchang5117]

Hi. May I know what is the time control for a game of chess? Is it 60 min + 30 s?

[@caesar3295]

Damn, how long did it take you to edit this masterpiece?

[@a-onegamin]

10:23 indian Magnus Carlsen

[@popatmuhammed3850]

Vishy,Tal,Fischer, Kasparov,Hikaru and Magnus❤❤

[@hkvamshi8754]

Nice video...

[@XIAOBAIZHANG-ym8pn]

Hello, may I ask where these original high-definition pictures of the chess world champion were obtained? Can you share the URL link?

[@Brahmaputra_]

Gukesh invited on the list.

[@rax1899]

He’s just the candidates winner

[@Brahmaputra_]

@@rax1899 Gukesh will have an easy win. Ding is out of form for longer time.

[@rax1899]

@@Brahmaputra_ the match is in November. Ding has plenty of time to get back into shape

[@danielthehyperboy1]

nice video

[@rushikeshshinde2526]

And then comes Magnus Carlsen,Ladies and Gentlemen!💯

[@matesquilos2915]

Karpov x Kasparov was out of this World

[@nicoh8626]

So Lasker holds the record of longest chess world champion with 27 years

[@vibovitold]

Yes, but in Lasker's era there was no formal WC cycle, so he was in a more comfortable position, because he could fend off challengers with lengthy negotiations on conditions etc. Like when he demanded that Capablanca (the challenger) would only win the title if he won their match at least by 2 points : ) Essentially expecting a one-game handicap from Capablanca. This sort of stuff wouldn't be possible in modern times - the match is scheduled and you have to play, Dr. Lasker, or else you're forfeiting. Like they didn't budge to Fischer's demands, and this was it.

[@TheNameOfJesus]

@@vibovitold That was interesting. But who controls FIDE?

[@MichaelMoore-no9ly]

@@vibovitold Lasker did the same to Carl Schlechter. When this video shows them tying as 1-1-8, it was because Lasker started out with an automatic 1-0 lead. He never beat Schlechter in that match.

[@vibovitold]

@@TheNameOfJesus the reptilians

[@dmitryliskov]

Матчи за звание чемпиона мира по индийской игре проводятся с 1886 года, и только один индус в них участвовал. Правда спустя 10 лет появился второй индийский гросс-претендент Быть может игра вовсе не индийская, а русская?)

[@okilshuhaoou8291]

Nodirbek is new one 、 one day he become world chempion

[@Rafaelelmago33]

Aún así es difícil créer quien fué el mejor de todos los tiempos!! Pues lo que parece ser es que va aumentando el nivel de estrategia y agresividad por el paso del tiempo pero igualmente campeónes de antaño cómo capablanca hubiese Sido difícil saber quién hubiese ganado con los actuales incluso los hubiese metido en problemas!!!

[@BedrockBlocker]

Fischer 125 Elo over Spasski is just insane.

[@delan14e]

This season playoff is one of best in history most of the team has a chance to win and not easy to predict even first round games

[@JohnnieWalker69]

Thank you. Quite good job. But why so fast? Ok. pause Button, I know. But doing this all 4 seconds nerves a little bit.

[@philippeverwaerde3910]

Overall domination of people from Slavic countries (even the 2 only french appearing as competitors)

[@xJetbrains]

Alekhine is from Russia

[@faisalahmad6472]

Tal ❤❤

[@danielthehyperboy1]

You should update as of 2023 as the world chess championship finished.

[@davidc5191]

So really the first U.S. world champion was Steinitz, not Fischer.

[@MauricioRuizS]

Argentina 2005 videos are from 2007 Mexico championshi, good video anyways

[@Faustusful]

what this split mean?

[@nikolaukic8140]

SSSR best in everything, from chess to cosmos!!!

[@ulrichschmidt5559]

In the first match, wasn't Steinitz defending Champion (due to his match win over Anderssen in 1866) and Zukertort the Challenger? The World Champion has always been decided by match play, not by tournament play, so the win in the London 1882 tournament didn't make Zukertort "defending Champion".

[@harissiddiqui9336]

What does the PCA and FIDE split mean

[@Calintares]

there were two different chess organizations that each had their own World Champion title and their own cycle of world championship matches The PCA was formed because some players, most notably the World Champion at the time, were unsatisfied with how FIDE did things. the PCA doesn't exist anymore and the titles were unified with that Kramnik-Topalov match. Even though the PCA is the one that stopped existing, it's common to use their list of world champions as the legit one since it's only Kasparov and Kramnik, and both of those two also won the title when it was unified.

[@fernandoja7897]

¿why did you change the last song?

[@STATSTAR]

because of copyright claims

[@thunder8488]

​@@STATSTARSad to hear that... do you remember the name of the song you used before?

[@STATSTAR]

Copyright object: "Emotions of Technology" Claimant: We Are Era Music BV (actually the author was RomanSenykMusic)

[@thunder8488]

@@STATSTAR Thank you! Also, very sad to see so many false copyright claims

[@CapAnson12345]

Most people don't count the FIDE champions from 93-06. It goes Kasparov- Kramnik, etc.

[@gtaquizmaster]

why don't they count them

[@VASILY.IsMyLoV-rn9kj]

@@gtaquizmaster because the best player was clearly Kasparov, and the format of these fide championship were terrible (same as world cup KO).

[@Rokkatsu6]

How close are we to a new split?? I mean Magnus and some other guys are up to something good and we should support them in what new crazy federation or group is created (IF)

[@dyatlov3466]

Where's Ding and Gukesh?

[@MichaelSmith-lb9pt]

Is the current best player in the world the world champion? So start with Paul Morphy, Capablanca around 1916 before playing Lasker in 1921, Bobby Fischer 1972 -1978, and Magnus from 2013 -2024.

[@111jhouse]

Where's Ding Liren?

[@Rapgod_2007]

1993 год макс омариев против анатолия играл узнали? согласны?

[@VikAgnostic]

Ding Liren is WCh in 2023-2024

[@rahelagha7638]

Alexander Alekhine was Russian not France

[@zazazu2218]

Он переехал во время революции

[@Larciliaa]

Steinitz usa flag??

[@felipegonzalez6139]

Y Ding el siguiente, wow ni el se lo creé que fuera tan rápido. Se lo merece el chino.

[@divyanshushukla2540]

Gukesh incoming to the list

[@magicmulder]

I forgot how close the Kasparov/Karpov rivalry was. While Kasparov undoubtedly was the better of the two, he never really dominated his rival. Also while Carlsen is clearly superhuman at Blitz, many forget how many of his duels at longer time controls were super close and massive drawfests.

[@dereknichols4376]

Many also forget how easy it is to get draw nowadays with all engine prep its harder to fight modern opponent with super engine preps than in the past when people study book and cant counter ur moove using engine

[@royaltech6084]

5:21

[@arhankhan8945]

King liren new wc

[@emersonrubens8270]

Anand = god of chess

[@rgaphd6832]

Gukesh next ❤

[@herif7]

You forgot the most humble and resent World Champion

[@leonardosuarez3144]

Y falta el pecho frío de Dingui!!

[@fifiwoof1969]

What was PCA v FIDE? Didn't know there was a breakaway.

[@vibovitold]

Kasparov wasn't happy with FIDE (who is) and he created a rival organisation. Kind of like in boxing, where you have more than one international federation. FIDE had tradition on its side, but Kasparov was still clearly the best, while FIDE's champions were, hm, mostly dubious (with all due respect to Khalifman and the others). Ultimately they reconciled, and FIDE's world champion at that time - Topalov - lost the reunification match.

[@fifiwoof1969]

@@vibovitold thankyou for your explanation. Was the breakaway played under the exact same rules, ie. same number of moves in same given time?

[@davidcopson5800]

@@vibovitold True, but I think Short was influential in pushing Garry to create the breakaway, PCA. Kasparov says he now regrets this happened.

[@davidcopson5800]

@ Fifi Woof The 'split' in 1993 was regrettable, but FIDE created a 'rival' champion from losers (albeit good ones); the loser of 1990 wc match, Karpov, and the loser of the Candidtes final, Timman. Most people refer to the lineal sequence of world champions. Ding Liren is generally regarded as the 17th world chess champion.

[@meighn]

Magnus from India?

[@Name-xd1hv]

Chess champoins often capitalised by the USSR. Well, _not now, though._

[@zazazu2218]

What?

[@rbueno55]

Morphy was better than Steinitz and Chigorin but never played for a world championship

[@endthisnonsense7202]

I was faster than Usain Bolt. But never ran a race.

[@henryseidel5469]

How do you know ?

[@apaarshrivastava]

​@@endthisnonsense7202 😂😂😂

[@stormfaizy682]

Next champion pragnanadha 🇮🇳

[@Anupamchess]

Gukesh

[@carlo9524]

I don't have an idea why Fisher is considered the GOAT. Really. He was champion 2 years.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

considering that the 2-10 champions are from the Soviet Union. The Soviets were so unbeatable because they had a special university just for playing chess. and there is chess lessons in elementary schools. being the only person who won and from the United States made him the title of Hero of the United States. although in the end he became a madman because of the great pressure from America

[@pacocaavancando8659]

because he's from USA. So are overestimated.

[@vibovitold]

Longevity doesn't tell the whole story. It doesn't speak in his favour; true. But what does? 1. Fischer's rise was meteoric, and throughout his short career, he was more dominant than any other world champion. Ever. Not since the times of Paul Morphy (who played in an era predating the invention of chess clocks) had the top player been head and shoulders above the rest. The rating gap between Fischer and the world's #2 was 125 Elo points. Who's #2 right now? Still Nepo, rated 2794. Which means Carlsen could be rated 2918. 2918 and... he still wouldn't have broken Fischer's record in this aspect. Let that sink in. Fischer demolished both Taimanov and Larsen with 6:0. He didn't even have to keep on winning, he could have settled for draws in these matches once he was, say, 4 wins ahead. But he did. He kept on pushing for wins. He didn't care about conserving his energy. He didn't come to win the match, he came to be winning. Period. Can you image Carlsen playing - say - Mamedyarov and Firouzja, and finishing with a score of +12 =0 -0? I know - times are different, such dominance could be technically impossible anymore, because of computers etc. But guess what. Computers (strong enough to be relevant for the argument) weren't around for all the chess history up until roughly the end of the 20th century. (Deep Blue beated Kasparov in 1996, and it was a one-off feat, requiring a specially designed supercomputer to run). And yet only Fischer attained such dominance. Nobody else. 2. Fischer came from a country with didn't have strong chess culture at the time, and he took on the "Soviet chess machine". He really fought an uphill battle. He had to learn from Russian literature. His opponents had authors of those literature, and world champions as their mentors and seconds. They had every possible learning and training resource readily available (courtesy of the Soviet state). Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, attended Botvinnik's chess academy - they were trained by a guy who was himself a 5 times world champion. Fischer didn't really have a chess coach. He had a little assistance from players who themselves were nowhere near the status of the Soviets. In comparison to the Soviet masters, he had been on his own. 3. Fischer had a tremendous impact on the landscape of chess. Many great grandmasters of today picked up chess because of Fischer's inspiration. It was largely due to Fischer that chess became a professional discipline worldwide (as opposed to just the USSR). When Fischer came into picture, chess in the US was more or less like, I don't know, scrabble. His obssession about playing conditions, prize funds etc. changed this forever. 4. His best games were masterpieces. Eg. game #6 from his WC match was absolutely flawless. Before the computers. Fischer played English opening - which he virtually never did - and outplayed Spassky completely. It's even hard to say exactly where Spassky went wrong. You can point out certain inaccuracies. Fischer simply crushed him like Stockfish or AlphaZero. No wonder everyone, including Spassky himself, stood up and applauded. When was the last time you saw this happen in a WC match?

[@feranmiadeakin9850]

@@vibovitold well said 👏

[@danielfcastro]

​@@vibovitoldCaruana 7-0 at Saint Louis 2014 is probably even more impressive than Fischers double 6-0, considering the strength of the fiel there. And Carlsen is still heads and shoulds above Caruana. Fischer domination on 71 was brutal, but it was only for a year after all...

[@aragorn4242]

there was a lot of dodgy stuff going on in russian chess after the war. from a number of sources. all the ones held in the USSR. they were dominant !!

[@davidcopson5800]

One curious thing is that Mikhail Botvinnik never won a match as world champion.

[@carlossimancas9867]

No, because of the World War II he couldn’t show he was unbeatable at his prime. Since 1938 to 1948 Botvinnik would have defeated anyone in a match

[@joseluisglezfdez7268]

Claro que los ganó, a Smyslow en 1958 y a Tal en 1961

[@carlossimancas9867]

Pero como aspirante. Como campeón vigente nunca ganó ni un solo match de los que disputó

[@victorshevchuk4001]

@@carlossimancas9867Fine was better than Botvinnik in this period.

[@McAi1234]

Magnus is An alien, alpha zero.. Incomparable

[@praxidioramboyong5767]

Where’s Ding place?

[@davidcopson5800]

This video maker didn't have a time machine!

[@a4th0r34]

I don't think this dude predicted that, a year after the video, Ding would be the world champion

[@apaarshrivastava]

​@@davidcopson5800 😂😂

[@chaselongenecker5398]

Wait so this Alekhine guy is like chess Jesus???

[@davidcopson5800]

Please explain what you mean by this. Alekhine was certainly no saint!

[@henryseidel5469]

@@davidcopson5800 Alekhine died in 1946 - as far as I know. Immediately after WW2. He was the best of his time.

[@kennetholesen8345]

10:20 Magnus becoming Indian, interresting........

[@1972yearnovembertwentyfirst]

Ding Liren

[@stockholm1047]

alekhine is a ussian player not france

[@Kelvinllovejr]

He became a naturalized French citizen during the match with Capablanca. November 5th, 1927

[@henryseidel5469]

@@Kelvinllovejr Like Boris Spasski, and Korchnoi became a citizen of Switzerland. But they all had gone through the Russian school of chess.

[@Kelvinllovejr]

@@henryseidel5469 This is true

[@henryseidel5469]

@@Kelvinllovejr I visited the Russian school of Chess "Michail Tschigorin" in St.Peterburg. It is unbelievable what the Russians did to popularize the game of chess and to teach it to the young generation on a large scale.

[@Kelvinllovejr]

@Henry Seidel never been but you are right. When a country makes it a national sport and puts all their resources behind it it's going to be something magnificent.

[@gerardorodriguez7858]

I didnt know Carlsen defeated Vishi in India, that probably sucked.

[@d74rjm]

Hey, dudes, ELO rating has little to do with the title of World Champion. Opponents in the Match for the title of World Champion are determined by a series of zonal, interzonal and qualification tournaments, according to FIDE rules.Sometimes the current world champion has a lower ELO coefficient than some international great masters. So what ?

[@incitatusdelaruinalparaiso3166]

STEINITZ was not a US champion. The only US World Champion till 2023 was Robert James Fischer.

[@gtaquizmaster]

He became naturalized

[@incitatusdelaruinalparaiso3166]

@@gtaquizmaster Saccharin is not sugar,

[@gtaquizmaster]

Fine, yes he didn't grow up in USA so it sort of doesn't count , but usa is also an immigrant country so that part does make sense @@incitatusdelaruinalparaiso3166

[@incitatusdelaruinalparaiso3166]

@@gtaquizmaster Yes, legally, yes. But you see, a World Champion should be the consequence of a national culture, not an already champion recruited at the end of his life.

[@gtaquizmaster]

I agree@@incitatusdelaruinalparaiso3166

[@oduyquang7429]

Anand is as old as kasparov why he play the world champion, he is 25 and kasparov is 32😢😢😢

[@swarupbanerjee147]

Seul Vishy peut répondre à cela. mais à mon avis il est extrêmement talentueux. même à 53 ans, il est numéro 9 mondial avec une note de 2754 et l'année dernière a battu magnus sur son propre terrain.donc je pense que l'âge n'est qu'un chiffre pour lui

[@user-pakshibhithi10]

That is his choice, right? He is still playing well though.

[@kaushiksahu5646]

beacause he was able to beat the younger guys in candidates!

[@patrickstar1164]

This list is wrong. Everyone knows Dewa Kipas is the best

[@jsdharmiksowcar6835]

Only 16 world champions are important . Split pca and fide are irrelevent

[@rauladelino7568]

Topalov is world champion!!!

[@williamrobert9898]

Nah PCA world champions are undisputed the FIDE ones are BS tho

[@rauladelino7568]

@@williamrobert9898 F Topalov, F Anand F Kasimdzhanov

[@williamrobert9898]

@@rauladelino7568 Anand won the FIDE world championship later on though so he is undisputed but in the era that FIDE calls "split" the undisputed world champions were Kasparov and Kramnik

[@apaarshrivastava]

​@@williamrobert9898 Anand Won 5 WC what are you talking about bruh.

[@catheadmoon]

There really have been about 50 male world chess champions? inquiring minds want to know...

[@Stint45678]

Chess is male-dominated game.

[@jamesxu9258]

If you want women chess championship,go watch instead

[@endthisnonsense7202]

It's NOT a male championship like for instance athletics. It's actually OPEN, any woman can choose to compete and Polgar did. It reminds me of Dutch player and columnist Hein Donner who once wrote in a prestigious Dutch Newspaper "Women can't play chess". Back then that was still not enough to get canceled (barely) but he got a load of criticism. One Woman wrote to the paper stating this is exactly like racism, he might as well have written "Negroes can't play chess" to which Donner replied in his next column; "Ms X clearly misunderstood my column, negroes are perfectly capable of playing a good game of chess. It's negresses that can't".

[@volh1volh195]

Judit Polgar is a man?

[@Stint45678]

@@volh1volh195 ?

[@goiviredmi9]

Carlsen the goat

[@vibovitold]

Let's go to the comments section. I wonder what fascinating insights have Carlsen's fans shared this time?

[@blanakanchannel9291]

King Magnus the best

[@barang007]

kasparov will always be the best

[@estudiog_ggoldstein3202]

Boby the one!

[@mamur1337]

Russia

[@mp_luffy]

they lost because they become old. sad life

[@nearharvy2735]

the worst champion -> Din Li o- serious ly ...

[@fanssolperez3430]

Facts Some Fischer facts Born: March 9, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois Died: January 17, 2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland Learned the rules of chess at age 6!: 1949 First recorded tournament game: July 1955 International Grandmaster title: 1958 U.S. Champion eight times in eight attempts!: 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966 Winner of: every tournament and match in which he participated from December, 1962 through World Championship match 1972 with the exceptions of Capablanca Memorial, 1965, (2nd place - ½ point behind Smyslov), and Piatigorsky Cup, 1966, (2nd place - ½ point behind Spassky). Bobby Fischer’s tournament and match results: 415 wins, 248 draws and 85 losses out of 748 games played from 1955 through 1992 for a performance average of .721 or 72.1% Fischer’s highest achieved rating: 2785 ELO.