Les champions du monde

AnnéeChampionPays
~1490Luis Ramirez de LucenaSpain
~1520Pedro DamianoPortugal
1559–1575Ruy López de SeguraSpain
~1560–1575El MorroPortugal
1575Leonardo da CutroNaples
1575Paolo BoiSicily
~1580Giulio PolerioNaples
~1600Alessandro SalvioNaples
~1620–1634Gioachino GrecoNaples
~1640Pietro CarreraSicily
~1700Alexander Cunningham (in Dutch)Scotland
~1730–1745Legall de KermeurFrance
1745–1795François-André Danican PhilidorFrance
~1795–~1815Johann Baptist AllgaierAustrian Empire
~1795–~1804VerdoniFrance
~1805–~1815Jacob Henry SarrattUnited Kingdom 
1815–1821Alexandre DeschapellesFrance
1821–1840Louis-Charles Mahé de La BourdonnaisFrance
1834Alexander McDonnellUnited Kingdom 
1840–1843Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-AmantFrance
1843–1851Howard StauntonUnited Kingdom 
1851–1858Adolf AnderssenPrussia
1858–1862Paul MorphyUnited States
1862–1866Adolf AnderssenPrussia
1866–1878Wilhelm SteinitzAustria-Hungary (Bohemia)
1878–1886Johannes ZukertortGerman Empire (Prussia)
AnnéeChampion FIDEPays
1886–1894Wilhelm SteinitzAustria-Hungary
1894–1921Emanuel LaskerGerman Empire
1921–1927José Raúl CapablancaCuba
1927–1935Alexander AlekhineFrance
1937–1946Alexander AlekhineRussian émigré
1935–1937Max EuweNetherlands
1948–1957Mikhail BotvinnikSoviet Union (RSFSR)
1958–1960Mikhail BotvinnikSoviet Union (RSFSR)
1961–1963Mikhail BotvinnikSoviet Union (RSFSR)
1957–1958Vasily SmyslovSoviet Union (RSFSR)
1960–1961Mikhail TalSoviet Union (Latvian SSR)
1963–1969Tigran PetrosianSoviet Union (Armenian SSR)
1969–1972Boris SpasskySoviet Union (RSFSR)
1972–1975Bobby FischerUnited States
1975–1985Anatoly KarpovSoviet Union (RSFSR)
1985–1993Garry KasparovSoviet Union (Azerbaijan SSR)
1993–1999Anatoly KarpovRussia
1999–2000Alexander KhalifmanRussia
2000–2002Viswanathan AnandIndia
2002–2004Ruslan PonomariovUkraine
2004–2005Rustam KasimdzhanovUzbekistan
2005–2006Vesselin TopalovBulgaria
2006Wladimir KramnikRussie
2007-2013Viswanathan AnandInde
2014Magnus Carlsen

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