World Champions - Intro

Submitted by bobobbob on Sat, 07/11/2009 at 12:15pm.

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
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