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

Max Euwe (Born 20 May 1901 - Died 26 November 1981)

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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
1924 23 7531 69.16 62.98 66.03 17.43 12.10 11.19 11.61 22.47 29.89
1925 24 6657 70.96 63.87 67.40 15.49 11.84 10.90 11.33 22.86 29.48
1926 25 5747 72.32 68.91 70.56 12.91 11.05 10.39 10.69 22.71 28.46
1927 26 5394 78.77 73.01 75.80 10.89 10.69 10.52 10.60 24.78 30.69
1928 27 4995 75.00 70.00 72.50 7.76 10.22 10.10 10.15 23.93 29.85
1929 28 4539 73.91 69.66 71.82 9.11 10.86 9.88 10.36 24.44 31.14
1930 29 4184 71.18 67.50 69.39 10.00 10.92 9.74 10.34 23.29 29.94
1931 30 3959 71.08 61.33 66.46 10.05 10.52 9.74 10.15 22.94 29.89
1932 31 4000 68.90 57.05 63.13 10.51 10.05 9.35 9.72 20.14 25.63
1933 32 2603 72.32 54.72 63.76 11.91 9.63 9.61 9.62 19.57 24.77
1934 33 2917 70.64 62.28 66.67 6.59 7.96 8.62 8.27 18.78 23.94
1935 34 3457 71.23 54.41 63.12 10.61 7.99 9.46 8.61 19.72 25.39
1936 35 3495 71.62 59.56 65.85 9.62 7.96 9.32 8.59 19.39 25.25
1937 36 3927 68.52 55.33 62.18 14.13 8.88 8.89 8.89 19.80 26.14
1938 37 4904 67.71 55.26 61.52 11.42 8.40 9.12 8.73 18.81 25.28
1939 38 5015 68.56 54.55 61.48 11.38 9.24 9.01 9.14 19.43 26.04
1940 39 4907 69.59 57.22 63.40 9.67 9.85 8.66 9.32 19.22 26.20
1941 40 4730 70.75 56.99 63.90 9.93 9.64 8.40 9.14 19.89 26.65
1942 41 3689 74.67 62.33 68.58 5.95 9.38 8.43 9.01 20.46 26.49
1943 42 2652 77.19 64.42 71.10 7.49 10.28 7.75 9.29 22.33 27.60
1944 43 1612 79.17 60.94 70.59 9.28 9.89 8.05 9.15 22.73 27.47
1945 44 1106 76.00 69.05 72.83 9.12 8.18 7.41 7.89 23.45 27.79
1946 45 1993 81.25 77.63 79.49 9.64 8.74 9.53 9.14 24.04 28.55
1947 46 2612 75.96 71.43 73.76 11.20 9.63 9.76 9.69 24.25 30.19
1948 47 3779 67.11 61.49 64.33 12.58 9.29 10.39 9.83 23.70 31.34
1949 48 4642 68.23 60.44 64.44 11.52 8.94 9.93 9.41 22.49 30.20
1950 49 5827 70.34 60.92 65.61 10.72 8.90 9.57 9.21 21.65 29.09
1951 50 4630 65.63 56.70 61.14 10.95 8.99 9.21 9.09 20.42 28.14
1952 51 4183 67.42 56.82 62.15 10.50 8.51 9.08 8.74 19.28 25.97
1953 52 3969 69.05 58.43 63.77 7.65 8.81 8.12 8.53 17.95 24.80