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Therefore, Petrosian only gets credit for facing one unique challenger (Spassky). When he was world chess champion, Tigran Petrosian played Boris Spassky in two separate world chess championship matches. Other world chess champions, such as Petrosian, faced only one unique challenger. Top PlayersSparkChess uses an Elo-based scoring system like the one. Chess PuzzlesFrom there you can solve the puzzle online or select its FEN. DownloadGet SparkChess Premium for PC, Mac, iOS or Android. Improve your skills with various AI opponents or challenge your friends in.Choose an activitySparkChess requires Javascript to run Learn Study chess with.

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Using the list and rationale presented above, we can rank Emanuel Lasker as the greatest world chess champion of all time. Play, learn and have fun with the most advanced free online chess game. Anand: Kramnik, Topalov, Gelfand, and Carlsen.Kasparov: Karpov, Short, Anand, and Kramnik.Karpov: Korchnoi, Kasparov, Timman, and Kamsky.Botvinnik: Bronstein, Smyslov, Tal, and Petrosian.Lasker: Steinitz, Marshall, Tarrasch, Schlechter, Janowski, and Capablanca.But, for this article, I consider Kramnik as the champion defending his title against Topalov. Regarding Veselin Topalov, who won his world chess championship title in a tournament, one could argue that he defended that title against Vladimir Kramnik. But that match still counts toward his total.

In some of the matches listed below, the world chess champion lost to his challenger. In the early years of the world chess championship, the challenger had to raise sufficient funds for a world chess championship match. Some world chess champions never faced the men who might have been their strongest challengers. Many world chess championships have been run by the International Chess Federation (FIDE).

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World chess championships run by other organizations, such as the Professional Chess Association (PCA) in the 1990s, count. Therefore, Steinitz could not be defending a world chess championship title because he didn’t yet have that title. For example, Steinitz’s matches against Zukertort and Blackburne do not count because Steinitz was not an officially named world chess champion when those matches were played. Notably, only matches for an official “world chess championship” count. All puzzles have solutions and you can play them live against the computer. While sometimes the world chess championship has been decided by a tournament, this article considers only world chess championship matches that are best of 10 games or longer. Play and solve Hard Chess Puzzles on SparkChess, the free online chess game. Thanks to my son William Root for his research, which I present here.

Before the 2022 FIDE Candidates Tournament began, Carlsen said that he wanted to face a new challenger. Carlsen defeated Nepomniachtchi already, in the 2021 world chess championship. With the 2022 FIDE Candidates Tournament’s winner being Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi, World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen won’t face someone new if he chooses to defend his title.

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