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| # |
Name |
Country |
Life |
World-Champion |
| 1 | CZE |
1836-1900 |
1886-1894 | |
| 2 | GER |
1868-1941 |
1868-1921 | |
| 3 | Jose Raul Capablanca | CUB | 1888-1942 | 1921-1927 |
| 4 | Alexander Alekhine | RUS | 1892-1946 | 1927-1935 |
| 1937-1946 | ||||
| 5 | Max Euwe | DUT | 1901-1981 | 1935-1937 |
| 6 | Mikhail Botvinik | URSS | 1911-1995 | 1948-1957 |
| 1958-1960 | ||||
| 1961-1963 | ||||
| 7 | Vassily Smyslov | URSS | 1921-... | 1957-1958 |
| 8 | Mikhail Tal | URSS | 1936-1992 | 1960-1961 |
| 9 | Tigran Petrosian | URSS | 1929-1984 | 1963-1969 |
| 10 | Boris Spassky | URSS | 1937-... | 1969-1972 |
| 11 | Bobby Fisher | USA | 1943-... | 1972-1975 |
| 12 | Anatoly Karpov | URSS | 1953-... | 1975-1984 |
| 13 | Garry Kasparov | URSS | 1963-... | 1985-2000 |
| 14 | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 1975-... | 2000-... |
| # |
Name |
Country |
Life |
World-Champion |
| 1 | Vera Menchik | URSS | 1906-1944 | 1927-1944 |
| 2 | Liudmila Rudenko | URSS | 1904-1986 | 1950-1953 |
| 3 | Elizaveta Bykova | URSS | 1913-1989 | 1953-1956 |
| 1958-1962 | ||||
| 4 | Olga Rubtsova | URSS | 1909-... | 1956-1958 |
| 5 | Nona Gaprindashvili | URSS | 1941-... | 1962-1978 |
| 6 | Maia Chiburdanidze | URSS | 1961-... | 1978-1991 |
| 7 | Jun Xie | CHI | 1970-... | 1991-1993 |
| 1997-....... | ||||
| 8 | Zsusza Polgar | HUN | 1969-... | 1993-1996 |
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