List of World Chess Championships

This list contains all of the official World Chess Championships ( since 1886 ) and from the time before competitions, the winners of which was widely regarded as the world's best players.

Draw (chess) London Howard Staunton Bernhard Horwitz London 1851 chess tournament Adolf Anderssen Marmaduke Wyvill (chess player) Wilhelm Steinitz World Chess Championship 1886 Johannes Zukertort World Chess Championship 1889 Mikhail Chigorin World Chess Championship 1891 World Chess Championship 1892 World Chess Championship 1894 Philadelphia Montreal Emanuel Lasker World Chess Championship 1897 Moscow World Chess Championship 1907 World Chess Championship 1908 Siegbert Tarrasch Berlin Carl Schlechter Dawid Janowski World Chess Championship 1921 World Chess Championship 1927 World Chess Championship 1929 Heidelberg The Hague Efim Bogoljubov World Chess Championship 1934 World Chess Championship 1935 World Chess Championship 1937 World Chess Championship 1948 World Chess Championship 1951 David Bronstein World Chess Championship 1954 World Chess Championship 1957 World Chess Championship 1958 World Chess Championship 1960 World Chess Championship 1961 World Chess Championship 1963 World Chess Championship 1966 World Chess Championship 1969 Bobby Fischer World Chess Championship 1975 World Chess Championship 1978 Baguio World Chess Championship 1981 Merano World Chess Championship 1984 World Chess Championship 1985 World Chess Championship 1986 World Chess Championship 1987 World Chess Championship 1990 Lyon Nigel Short Professional Chess Association World Chess Championship 1993 Classical World Chess Championship 1995 Classical World Chess Championship 2000 Classical World Chess Championship 2004 Brissago Zwolle Amsterdam Jan Timman Elista Groningen New Delhi Tehran FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 Michael Adams (chess player) San Luis, Argentina World Chess Championship 2006 World Chess Championship 2007 World Chess Championship 2008 Bonn World Chess Championship 2010 Boris Gelfand Magnus Carlsen World Chess Championship 2014 Tiebreaker
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