Top 14 Tournament Players in Chess History
Match play makes champions; tournament play tells you who could do it week after week against everybody at once. The two lists are not the same list.
1Garry KasparovWon almost every elite event he entered between 1986 and his retirement.1000pts
2Fabiano CaruanaScored seven wins from seven games against the elite at the 2014 Sinquefield Cup.943pts
3Anatoly KarpovMore than 160 first places, the largest tournament haul the game has recorded.927pts
4Bobby FischerWon the 1963-64 US Championship with eleven wins from eleven games.709pts
5Viktor KorchnoiKept winning open tournaments into his seventies.600pts
6José Raúl CapablancaWent eight years without losing a single tournament game.600pts
7Mikhail BotvinnikShared first at Nottingham 1936 and won Groningen 1946.466pts
8Emanuel LaskerWon St Petersburg 1914 and New York 1924, a decade apart.466pts
9Vladimir KramnikA fixture on the Dortmund winners board through the 1990s and 2000s.466pts
10Mikhail TalSix-time Soviet champion and winner of two interzonal tournaments.466pts
11Alexander AlekhineLeft the field behind at San Remo 1930 and Bled 1931.0pts
12Magnus CarlsenHas won Wijk aan Zee and the Sinquefield Cup more often than anyone else.0pts
13Viswanathan AnandWon Linares, Corus and Dortmund across three decades of elite play.0pts
14Levon AronianWon the Amber tournament and the Sinquefield Cup at his peak.0pts
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