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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] Later matches

• 1928 (FIDE) Efim Bogoljubov-Max Euwe (5½-4½) (one-time FIDE championship, before 1948 system)
• 1992 (Independent) Fischer-Spassky (+10 -5 =15) (unofficial rematch of the 1972 match)

[edit] Official events

Wilhelm Steinitz

• 1886 Match Steinitz-Zukertort (+10 -5 =5)
• 1889 Steinitz-Chigorin (+10 -6 =1)
• 1890/91 Steinitz-Gunsberg (+6 -4 =9)
• 1892 Steinitz-Chigorin (+10 -8 =5)
• 1894 Lasker-Steinitz (+10 -5 =4)
• 1896/97 Lasker-Steinitz (+10 -2 =5)
• 1907 Lasker-Marshall (+8 -0 =7)
• 1908 Lasker-Tarrasch (+8 -3 =5)
• 1910 Lasker-Schlechter (+1 -1 =8)^[1]

• 1910 Lasker-Janowski (+8 -0 =3)
• 1921 Capablanca-Lasker (+4 -0 =10)
• 1927 Alekhine-Capablanca (+6 -3 =25)
• 1929 Alekhine-Bogoljubow (+11 -5 =9)
• 1934 Alekhine-Bogoljubow (+8 -3 =15)
• 1935 Euwe-Alekhine (+9 -8 =13)
• 1937 Alekhine-Euwe (+10 -4 =11)

[edit] FIDE-sanctioned events

See Candidates Tournament for the process of selecting a challenger for these matches.

• 1948 (FIDE) Botvinnik (14 points out of 20, five player, five cycle round-robin tournament)
• 1951 Botvinnik-Bronstein (+5 -5 =14)
• 1954 Botvinnik-Smyslov (+7 -7 =10)
• 1957 Smyslov-Botvinnik (+6 -3 =13)
• 1958 Botvinnik-Smyslov (+7 -5 =11)
• 1960 Tal-Botvinnik (+6 -2 =13)
• 1961 Botvinnik-Tal (+10 -5 =6)
• 1963 (FIDE) Petrosian-Botvinnik (+5 -2 =15)
• 1966 Petrosian-Spassky (+4 -3 =17)
• 1969 Spassky-Petrosian (+6 -4 =13)
• 1972 (FIDE) Fischer-Spassky (+7 -3 =11)
• 1975 Karpov-Fischer (by default)
• 1978 Karpov-Korchnoi (+6 -5 =21)
• 1981 Karpov-Korchnoi (+6 -2 =10)
• 1984 Karpov-Kasparov (+5 -3 =40) (aborted match)
• 1985 Kasparov-Karpov (+5 -3 =16)
• 1986 Kasparov-Karpov (+5 -4 =15)
• 1987 Kasparov-Karpov (+4 -4 =16)
• 1990 Kasparov-Karpov (+4 -3 =17)

[edit] Split title

• 1993 (FIDE) Karpov-Timman (+5 -2 =14)
• 1993 (PCA) Kasparov-Short (+6 -1 =13)
• 1995 (PCA) Kasparov-Anand (+4 -1 =13)
• 1996 (FIDE) Karpov-Kamsky (+6 -3 =9)
• 1998 (FIDE) Karpov-Anand (+2 -2 =2 and Karpov won on tiebreaks +2 -0 =0)
• 1999 (FIDE) Khalifman-Akopian (+2 -1 =3)
• 2000 (Braingames) Kramnik-Kasparov (+2 -0 =13)
• 2000 (FIDE) Anand-Shirov (+3 -0 =1)
• 2002 (FIDE) Ponomariov-Ivanchuk (+2 -0 =5)
• 2004 (FIDE) Kasimdzhanov-Adams (+3 -2 =3)
• 2004 (Classical) Kramnik-Lékó (+2 -2 =10)
• 2005 (FIDE) Topalov (10 points out of 14, double round robin tournament, eight participants)

[edit] 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

[edit] Notes

[edit] 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