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
1934 22 2039 80.23 67.57 74.38 2.04 8.16 9.64 8.88 18.92 23.89
1935 23 2199 78.89 62.79 71.02 4.18 8.68 9.97 9.35 19.11 26.12
1936 24 2567 77.36 60.20 69.12 4.92 8.72 10.50 9.48 19.74 28.06
1937 25 2650 72.64 55.88 64.42 6.68 9.83 10.17 9.98 19.78 28.71
1938 26 2955 73.68 57.90 65.79 4.25 9.64 11.01 10.26 20.44 28.14
1939 27 3057 72.41 62.93 67.67 4.23 9.58 11.03 10.29 21.20 30.68
1940 28 2738 72.55 62.75 67.65 2.76 9.42 10.92 10.09 20.82 30.29
1941 29 2393 66.67 67.39 67.03 2.92 9.48 10.54 10.03 19.99 29.38
1942 30 2018 67.95 71.80 69.87 0.94 8.50 11.08 9.83 20.14 30.32
1943 31 1674 70.97 71.67 71.31 1.15 8.63 10.33 9.32 20.88 30.73
1944 32 1635 75.00 70.00 72.50 3.88 9.14 11.31 10.08 20.22 25.91
1945 33 1920 77.14 78.57 77.86 2.94 9.32 10.99 10.14 24.88 31.64
1946 34 2080 82.43 76.39 79.45 4.42 10.20 11.23 10.73 26.34 30.82
1947 35 2455 81.82 75.00 78.41 4.94 9.73 10.75 10.24 24.92 29.36
1948 36 2575 78.72 75.53 77.13 5.71 9.61 11.33 10.54 23.81 28.96
1949 37 2110 78.21 75.64 76.92 5.23 9.49 11.04 10.30 24.73 30.68
1950 38 1542 75.86 68.97 72.41 7.35 9.23 11.11 10.18 21.35 25.65
1951 39 2065 61.84 61.84 61.84 10.75 8.86 10.79 9.61 17.23 22.31
1952 40 2819 61.54 62.75 62.14 8.61 9.08 11.66 10.19 18.37 23.91
1953 41 2303 58.33 62.20 60.24 9.31 9.29 11.02 10.02 17.85 22.88
1954 42 3239 60.66 58.77 59.75 9.89 9.42 9.88 9.61 17.71 23.28
1955 43 3807 60.27 58.09 59.22 8.99 9.54 9.34 9.45 17.35 22.29
1956 44 3282 69.12 58.33 64.06 6.54 8.94 9.43 9.15 19.30 25.25
1957 45 2697 66.38 50.00 58.80 6.22 9.31 8.15 8.84 18.70 25.93
1958 46 3765 68.35 50.73 60.14 7.62 9.28 8.85 9.10 19.21 26.13
1959 47 2968 68.25 51.79 60.50 6.33 9.13 9.28 9.20 19.41 26.57
1960 48 3311 68.12 50.00 59.47 8.07 8.71 10.16 9.39 19.81 28.47
1961 49 3733 68.24 50.00 59.44 7.96 9.76 10.95 10.30 20.53 28.20
1962 50 3761 72.30 56.62 64.79 9.67 10.00 10.91 10.43 21.11 27.71
1963 51 3588 69.57 57.46 63.60 8.22 10.56 10.19 10.37 20.48 28.48
1964 52 3949 70.67 59.72 65.31 7.20 10.45 10.12 10.28 20.59 28.06
1965 53 3594 72.39 65.39 68.94 7.97 10.80 10.15 10.51 21.51 27.99
1966 54 3344 70.64 68.03 69.36 9.66 10.23 8.55 9.38 20.79 27.89
1967 55 3558 70.59 66.67 68.66 8.66 9.57 8.36 8.98 19.76 26.53
1968 56 2924 72.88 70.37 71.68 9.11 9.09 8.50 8.83 20.51 26.18
1969 57 3213 71.97 65.87 68.99 8.54 8.70 9.30 8.98 19.44 24.27
1970 58 3080 70.31 62.50 66.53 7.36 8.04 9.04 8.52 18.07 23.61