Satranç Dünya Şampiyonları

Wilhelm Steinitz (World Champion 1886 - 1894)

Emanuel Lasker (World Champion 1894 - 1921)

Jose Raul Capablanca (World Champion 1921 - 1927)

Alexander Alekhine (World Champion 1927 - 1935, 1937 - 1946)

Max Euwe (World Champion 1935 - 1937)

Mikhail Botvinnik (World Champion 1948-1958, 1961-1963)

Vasily Smyslov (World Champion 1957-1958)

Mikhail Tal (World Champion 1960-1961)

Tigran Petrosian (World Champion 1963 - 1969)

Boris Spassky (World Champion 1969 - 1972)

Robert James Fischer (World Champion 1972 - 1975)

Anatoly Karpov (World Champion 1975 - 1985, 1993 - 1999)

Garry Kasparov (World Champion 1985 - 1993, World Champion according to APC 1993 - 2000)

Alexander Khalifman (World Champion 1999 - 2000)

Vladimir Kramnik (World Champion according to "Brain- Game" and "Einstein-Group" from 2000)

Viswanathan Anand (World Chess Champion 2000-2002)

Ruslan Ponomariov (World Chess Champion 2002-2004)

Rustam Kasimdzhanov (World Chess Champion 2004-2005)

Veselin Topalov (World Champion from 2005)

Vladimir Kramnik (World Chess Champion 2006)