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

Garry Kasparov (Born 13 April 1963)

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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
1975 12 361 37.50 66.67 50.00 29.52 11.84 14.54 12.95 24.05 35.42
1976 13 884 72.50 55.56 64.47 14.33 10.17 12.22 11.33 24.09 28.41
1977 14 882 82.35 69.44 75.71 10.75 10.97 9.59 10.19 26.54 33.31
1978 15 1459 79.31 53.23 65.83 11.75 10.28 11.71 10.93 25.74 31.88
1979 16 975 73.81 60.53 67.50 12.44 9.80 11.35 10.35 25.25 30.33
1980 17 1115 85.42 75.00 80.44 7.68 10.14 10.20 10.17 26.98 35.23
1981 18 1627 72.73 64.06 68.46 7.85 9.39 9.74 9.54 25.91 34.34
1982 19 817 82.50 72.50 77.50 5.19 8.64 10.71 9.48 27.65 31.31
1983 20 957 67.50 71.88 69.44 1.79 9.62 10.64 10.13 21.11 29.96
1984 21 1124 55.56 46.15 50.94 0.00 9.74 10.76 10.29 17.51 31.63
1985 22 1419 66.67 53.70 60.19 12.13 8.07 8.78 8.35 19.05 28.92
1986 23 1281 78.85 54.17 67.00 5.08 8.75 9.11 8.89 21.04 28.82
1987 24 864 61.77 55.56 58.57 14.63 9.15 9.13 9.14 19.06 23.39
1988 25 1852 79.41 67.50 72.97 7.51 8.68 8.58 8.63 23.54 29.28
1989 26 1417 78.57 71.43 75.00 3.74 9.57 8.87 9.23 25.48 28.67
1990 27 1178 73.81 52.27 62.79 7.68 11.56 9.84 10.78 26.45 32.59
1991 28 1174 71.43 62.50 66.67 12.55 9.43 8.88 9.16 21.50 28.79
1992 29 1037 85.00 67.50 76.25 7.54 10.58 8.12 9.47 28.71 35.41
1993 30 952 79.41 60.00 68.92 4.70 10.33 10.19 10.28 23.76 35.62
1994 31 1368 80.77 55.56 67.93 8.97 11.48 12.17 11.73 29.23 39.86
1995 32 1169 63.46 62.07 62.73 11.30 11.49 6.42 8.62 21.85 38.13
1996 33 937 73.68 63.89 68.92 8.10 10.77 9.71 10.32 26.51 36.24
1997 34 824 83.33 61.77 71.88 1.93 11.51 10.57 11.05 26.10 35.76
1998 35 413 61.11 55.56 58.33 0.00 6.62 6.24 6.51 18.26 38.53
1999 36 914 80.56 72.22 76.39 1.61 8.46 12.06 10.16 32.96 36.29
2000 37 1256 70.00 54.17 62.25 2.29 9.19 8.19 8.82 20.49 27.01
2001 38 1083 77.50 65.91 71.43 0.00 8.57 10.47 9.35 24.08 33.83
2002 39 557 81.82 65.00 73.81 3.51 11.16 11.13 11.16 22.73 30.47
2003 40 480 72.22 50.00 61.11 14.09 11.68 6.67 10.68 18.27 29.75
2004 41 932 67.65 52.94 60.29 3.65 7.54 12.28 9.12 21.31 41.43
2005 42 282 66.67 66.67 66.67 0.00 11.20 10.76 10.96 25.00 29.72