Statistics for Chess World Championships

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General Stats

This quiz has been taken 32 times
The average score is 20 of 41

Answer Stats

Year(s)	Country	Player	% Correct
(1984), 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, PCA: 1993, 1995, 2000; World Champion	Russia/Soviet Union	Garry Kasparov	93%
2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021; World Champion	Norway	Magnus Carlsen	89%
(1975), 1978, 1981, (1984), 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, FIDE: 1993, 1996, 1998; World Champion	Russia/Soviet Union	Anatoly Karpov	86%
1972, (1975); World Champion	USA	Bobby Fischer	86%
PCA: 2000; Reunited: 2006, 2007; World Champion	Russia	Vladimir Kramnik	86%
2006; 2010;	Bulgaria	Veselin Topalov	82%
PCA: 1995; FIDE: 1998, 2000 Reunited: 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014; World Champion	India	Viswanathan Anand	82%
1966; 1969, 1972; World Champion	Soviet Union/Russia	Boris Spassky	79%
1948, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1963; World Champion	Soviet Union/Russia	Mikhail Botvinnik	79%
1960, 1961; World Champion	Soviet Union/Latvia	Mikhail Tal	79%
2021;	Russia	Ian Nepomniachtchi	75%
1894, 1897, 1907, 1908, 1910 (2), 1921; World Champion	Germany	Emanuel Lasker	71%
2018;	USA/Italy	Fabiano Caruana	71%
1921, 1927; World Champion	Cuba	Jose Raul Capablanca	68%
2016;	Russia	Sergey Karjakin	64%
1886,1889, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1897; World Champion	Austria/USA	Wilhelm Steinitz	64%
1927, 1929, 1934, 1935, 1937; World Champion	France/Russia	Alexander Alekhine	61%
1935, 1937; World Champion	Netherlands	Max Euwe	61%
1963, 1966, 1969; World Champion	Soviet Union/Armenia	Tigran Petrosian	61%
2012;	Israel/Soviet Union	Boris Gelfand	54%
1954, 1957, 1958; World Champion	Soviet Union/Russia	Vassily Smyslov	50%
PCA: 1993;	United Kingdom	Nigel Short	43%
FIDE: 2002;	Ukraine	Vassily Ivanchuk	39%
FIDE: 1999; World Champion	Russia	Alexander Khalifman	29%
1951	Soviet Union/Russia	David Bronstein	29%
FIDE: 2004;	United Kingdom	Michael Adams	29%
FIDE: 2002; World Champion	Ukraine	Ruslan Ponomariov	29%
1978, 1981;	Soviet Union/Russia/Switzerland	Viktor Korchnoi	29%
FIDE: 2000;	Spain/Latvia	Alexei Shirov	21%
FIDE: 1993;	Netherlands	Jan Timman	21%
FIDE: 2004; World Champion	Uzbekistan	Rustam Kasimdzhanov	21%
FIDE: 1996;	USA/Soviet Union/Russia	Gata Kamsky	18%
1886	Poland/Germany/UK	Johannes Zuckertort	18%
1889, 1892	Russia	Mikhail Chigorin	18%
1929, 1934	Germany/Russia	Efim Bogoljubov	14%
1908	Germany	Siegbert Tarrasch	14%
1910	France/Russia	David Janowski	11%
1907	USA	Frank J. Marshall	11%
1891	Hungary	Isidor Gunsberg	11%
1910	Austria	Karl Schlechter	11%
FIDE: 1999;	Armenia	Vladimir Akopian	11%