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

Tigran Petrosian (Born 17 June 1929 - Died 13 August 1984)

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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
1949 20 893 72.22 36.11 54.17 9.52 11.35 11.90 11.57 19.36 29.14
1950 21 964 55.26 57.90 56.58 4.85 10.87 12.66 11.64 18.46 23.51
1951 22 1249 68.75 68.75 68.75 10.60 9.76 9.36 9.58 21.03 27.01
1952 23 784 72.50 50.00 62.16 2.20 10.28 10.73 10.44 23.40 33.08
1953 24 1050 66.67 56.00 61.22 5.35 10.22 11.28 10.67 17.65 24.41
1954 25 1613 72.73 64.52 68.75 6.54 10.17 9.26 9.69 17.69 25.10
1955 26 1186 64.29 67.31 65.74 2.07 8.58 10.32 9.48 16.20 20.76
1956 27 1270 58.93 66.67 62.73 16.20 10.16 10.94 10.58 20.09 29.04
1957 28 1151 68.52 57.69 63.21 11.24 10.84 12.05 11.37 18.45 24.09
1958 29 1166 80.00 56.00 68.00 1.72 9.34 10.53 9.65 20.50 27.26
1959 30 1472 68.33 56.45 62.30 5.67 9.77 9.50 9.66 19.08 26.02
1960 31 1479 89.39 73.33 81.75 5.11 8.40 9.64 8.87 21.57 25.59
1961 32 1471 77.59 66.67 71.77 6.15 7.82 10.49 9.10 21.53 26.41
1962 33 1315 76.56 62.90 69.84 0.00 9.26 9.48 9.33 19.99 27.75
1963 34 1048 65.00 47.50 56.25 13.67 8.98 10.82 9.53 15.30 22.48
1964 35 1172 80.77 68.18 75.00 4.15 8.34 7.79 8.14 17.02 21.06
1965 36 911 69.05 54.35 61.36 6.19 10.26 8.48 9.80 14.92 22.42
1966 37 1650 67.14 53.03 60.29 8.36 7.85 9.53 8.63 19.68 28.14
1967 38 929 73.81 52.50 63.42 9.36 9.66 11.58 10.39 17.13 22.44
1968 39 1119 80.00 66.67 73.47 6.88 8.20 9.52 8.74 18.54 23.99
1969 40 1406 59.38 56.06 57.69 4.55 9.22 10.62 10.02 16.17 25.96
1970 41 1457 62.90 55.88 59.23 7.47 8.67 10.23 9.28 18.04 27.39
1971 42 1096 59.62 48.39 53.51 6.79 9.10 10.01 9.49 16.80 32.42
1972 43 1353 75.00 60.35 68.25 1.38 9.49 9.37 9.46 19.70 27.18
1973 44 1188 69.36 56.90 63.33 1.78 6.74 8.95 7.58 16.66 23.24
1974 45 1142 81.48 52.00 67.31 9.21 9.79 8.89 9.46 17.00 23.43
1975 46 1474 71.05 47.06 59.72 7.47 9.90 10.49 10.10 18.40 27.55
1976 47 1008 66.67 59.26 62.96 9.43 9.06 9.31 9.15 19.30 27.26
1977 48 1253 62.90 54.84 58.87 8.39 9.61 9.57 9.60 17.60 28.95
1978 49 865 72.50 57.50 65.00 2.15 9.87 10.32 10.07 20.80 29.87
1979 50 1486 70.00 55.41 62.50 5.31 8.71 7.74 8.23 17.07 25.18
1980 51 1136 66.67 59.26 62.75 8.05 7.47 10.95 9.35 15.57 21.01
1981 52 1010 64.58 52.08 58.33 2.14 11.01 9.68 10.26 16.36 24.52
1982 53 957 67.39 42.86 55.68 11.85 9.74 11.12 10.17 16.81 30.63
1983 54 1146 59.26 50.00 54.31 2.55 9.98 10.20 10.07 17.80 36.69