Truechess.com Compares the Champions

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Morphy Steinitz Lasker Capablanca Alekhine Euwe Botvinnik Smyslov
Tal Petrosian Spassky Fischer Karpov Kasparov Kramnik Anand

Mikhail Botvinnik (Born 17 August 1911 - Died 5 May 1995)

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DRAWN GAMES ARE EXCLUDED FROM "BLUNDERS" AND "AVG ERROR" DATA COLUMNS
YEAR AGE MOVES ANALYZED WHITE PTS PERCENT BLACK PTS PERCENT TOTAL PTS PERCENT BLUNDERS per 1000 MOVES AVG ERROR per WHITE MOVE AVG ERROR per BLACK MOVE AVG ERROR per MOVE COMPLEXITY – ALL GAMES COMPLEXITY – WINNING GAMES
1930 18 442 80.00 91.67 84.38 0.00 8.12 10.81 9.29 20.19 20.94
1931 19 468 87.50 72.22 79.41 0.00 8.05 9.48 8.89 19.93 24.97
1932 20 292 100.00 80.00 90.91 0.00 6.58 9.81 7.94 18.64 22.13
1933 21 435 68.18 60.00 64.29 11.03 9.03 8.22 8.57 18.88 33.58
1934 22 402 75.00 42.86 60.00 0.00 9.05 10.20 9.50 16.70 18.40
1935 23 602 75.00 62.50 68.75 9.40 10.97 12.13 11.65 20.54 30.37
1936 24 836 78.13 60.00 69.36 2.66 8.43 12.57 9.31 21.55 31.84
1937 25 375 58.33 42.86 50.00 9.93 12.80 8.75 10.69 19.20 24.00
1938 26 740 73.33 65.63 69.36 0.00 8.52 11.60 10.19 21.87 29.22
1939 27 504 66.67 81.25 73.53 0.00 8.03 10.57 9.63 21.95 36.76
1940 28 283 80.00 60.00 70.00 0.00 10.20 16.40 11.64 15.88 24.88
1941 29 491 55.00 80.00 67.50 3.36 7.96 9.95 8.91 18.03 28.20
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1943 31 396 92.86 57.14 75.00 0.00 8.88 6.32 8.55 26.70 29.83
1944 32 465 81.25 75.00 78.13 7.56 10.14 12.22 11.40 19.73 22.14
1945 33 568 85.00 95.00 90.00 0.00 10.35 10.88 10.66 34.88 42.94
1946 34 651 75.00 72.73 73.91 7.65 11.21 11.12 11.16 24.07 27.15
1947 35 375 78.57 68.75 73.33 8.40 7.43 7.19 7.33 17.65 21.23
1948 36 516 75.00 65.00 70.00 6.10 8.18 13.79 10.86 20.79 27.24
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1951 39 1174 50.00 57.50 53.66 14.55 9.70 10.38 9.92 15.61 19.19
1952 40 1129 66.67 66.67 66.67 4.75 8.81 11.42 10.10 20.23 25.28
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1954 42 936 65.79 50.00 58.57 11.17 9.68 7.03 8.70 17.38 24.19
1955 43 568 58.33 54.55 56.52 3.52 10.69 7.35 8.58 15.32 16.66
1956 44 649 84.38 58.33 73.21 5.24 7.52 12.22 8.67 24.16 31.64
1957 45 544 50.00 36.36 43.18 0.00 10.99 8.18 9.67 18.23 32.59
1958 46 1068 73.81 52.63 63.75 10.72 9.20 10.25 9.68 20.53 26.56
1959 47 139 50.00 66.67 58.33 0.00 0.00 5.23 5.23 11.19 10.74
1960 48 911 61.11 47.22 54.17 11.36 7.72 10.48 9.55 18.25 27.20
1961 49 1071 80.95 55.56 69.23 6.39 10.40 13.90 11.54 24.91 29.58
1962 50 572 77.27 80.00 78.57 13.02 12.55 9.24 10.66 22.14 27.00
1963 51 895 62.50 55.56 58.82 4.48 11.90 7.71 9.04 17.90 29.84
1964 52 500 72.22 81.25 76.47 0.00 9.82 9.03 9.49 18.73 24.87
1965 53 556 65.00 72.73 69.05 15.18 10.63 10.87 10.72 22.67 27.09
1966 54 821 76.47 64.29 70.97 12.22 8.03 7.18 7.63 23.03 29.77
1967 55 786 75.00 70.00 72.58 7.69 8.73 8.29 8.52 17.03 21.56
1968 56 261 71.43 66.67 69.23 0.00 5.80 6.59 6.19 21.61 30.53
1969 57 789 68.75 58.82 63.64 0.00 7.77 12.15 9.95 15.10 16.51
1970 58 423 50.00 50.00 50.00 16.81 7.90 10.33 9.12 13.98 25.27