The 15 Greatest World Chess Championship Matches of All Time
A title match can run five months or come down to one blunder in the last game. Some of these were sport, some were theatre, and one of them was never finished at all.
1Fischer vs Spassky, 1972Reykjavik, a forfeited game, and an audience chess has never had again.1000pts
2Kasparov vs Karpov, 1990New York and Lyon, the fifth and final title match between them.689pts
3Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1978Baguio, 32 games, and a feud that ran far beyond the board.597pts
4Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016Ten draws, one loss each, and a tiebreak on the challenger's birthday.596pts
5Kasparov vs Karpov, 1987Level after 23 games in Seville and decided by the very last one.517pts
6Carlsen vs Anand, 2013The generational handover, played in the champion's home city.517pts
7Lasker vs Schlechter, 1910Schlechter needed only a draw in the last game and went for the win instead.517pts
8Anand vs Topalov, 2010Anand reached Sofia by road after a volcano closed European airspace.517pts
9Ding vs Nepomniachtchi, 2023Six decisive games and a tiebreak almost nobody predicted.517pts
10Kasparov vs Karpov, 1984-85Abandoned after 48 games and five months with no result declared.423pts
11Botvinnik vs Tal, 1960An attacking challenger the champion could not calculate against.423pts
12Alekhine vs Capablanca, 1927Thirty-four games in Buenos Aires, and a rematch that never happened.310pts
13Kramnik vs Kasparov, 2000Kasparov never solved the Berlin Defence and never won a game.310pts
14Gukesh vs Ding, 2024Settled by a single mistake in the final classical game in Singapore.310pts
15Euwe vs Alekhine, 1935A part-time player took the title from the most feared attacker in the game.0pts
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