List of chess world championship matches
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.
Unofficial events
- 1834 La Bourdonnais-McDonnell
- Match 1: June–July (+16 –5 =4)
- Match 2: July (+4 -5 =0)
- Match 3: July–August (+6 -5 =1)
- Match 4: August–September (+8 -3 =7)
- Match 5: September (+7 -4 =1)
- Match 6: September–October (+4 -5 =0)
- 1843 Saint-Amant-Staunton (3½ – 2½)
- 1843 Staunton-Saint-Amant (+11 -6 =4)
- 1846 Staunton-Horwitz (+14 -7 =3)
- 1858 Morphy-Anderssen (+7 -2 =2)
- 1866 Steinitz-Anderssen (+8 -6 =0)
Later matches
Official events
FIDE-sanctioned events
See Candidates Tournament for the process of selecting a challenger for these matches.
Split title
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 (+3 -2 =7)
Notes
- ^ There is some doubt as to whether Lasker's title was actually at stake in this match, see here
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
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- 1886, 1889, 1891, 1892 (Steinitz)
- 1894, 1897, 1907, 1908, 1910 (Jan-Feb), 1910 (Nov-Dec) (Lasker)
- 1921 (Capablanca)
- 1927, 1929, 1934 (Alekhine)
- 1935 (Euwe)
- 1937 (Alekhine)
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