List of chess world championship matches

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The following is a list of World Chess Championship matches.

The winner of each match is listed first. The notation (+x -y =z) means that the first player won x games, lost y games, and drew z games. For example, in the 1858 Morphy-Anderssen match, Morphy (+7 -2 =2) won with seven wins, two losses, and two draws. In the case of a drawn match, the champion retained his title.

Contents

[edit] Unofficial events

[edit] Later matches

[edit] Official events

Wilhelm Steinitz

[edit] FIDE-sanctioned events

See Candidates Tournament for the process of selecting a challenger for these matches.

  • 1948 (FIDE) Botvinnik (14 points out of 20, five player, five cycle round-robin tournament)
  • 1951 Botvinnik-Bronstein (+5 -5 =14)
  • 1954 Botvinnik-Smyslov (+7 -7 =10)
  • 1957 Smyslov-Botvinnik (+6 -3 =13)
  • 1958 Botvinnik-Smyslov (+7 -5 =11)
  • 1960 Tal-Botvinnik (+6 -2 =13)
  • 1961 Botvinnik-Tal (+10 -5 =6)
  • 1963 (FIDE) Petrosian-Botvinnik (+5 -2 =15)
  • 1966 Petrosian-Spassky (+4 -3 =17)
  • 1969 Spassky-Petrosian (+6 -4 =13)
  • 1972 (FIDE) Fischer-Spassky (+7 -3 =11)
  • 1975 Karpov-Fischer (by default)
  • 1978 Karpov-Korchnoi (+6 -5 =21)
  • 1981 Karpov-Korchnoi (+6 -2 =10)
  • 1984 Karpov-Kasparov (+5 -3 =40) (aborted match)
  • 1985 Kasparov-Karpov (+5 -3 =16)
  • 1986 Kasparov-Karpov (+5 -4 =15)
  • 1987 Kasparov-Karpov (+4 -4 =16)
  • 1990 Kasparov-Karpov (+4 -3 =17)

[edit] Split title

[edit] Unified title (FIDE)

  • 2006 Kramnik-Topalov (+3 -3 =6; Kramnik wins after tiebreaks, +2 -1 =1)
  • 2007 Anand (9 points out of 14, double round robin tournament, eight participants)
  • 2008 Anand-Kramnik (+3 -1 =7)
  • 2010 Anand-Topalov

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ There is some doubt as to whether Lasker's title was actually at stake in this match, see here

[edit] References

  • Davidson, Henry A. (1949, 1981). A Short History of Chess. McKay. ISBN 0-679-14550-8.
  • Barcza, Alföldy, Kapu: Die Weltmeister des Schachspiels. Hamburg 1975
  • Jens Enevoldsen: Verdens bedste Skak, Politiken (Denmark) 1966