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

Wilhelm Steinitz (Born 17 May 1836 - Died 12 August 1900)

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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
1859 23 97 100.00 100.00 100.00 30.93 8.90 9.43 9.18 34.89 34.89
1860 24 238 88.89 75.00 84.62 75.63 17.07 17.43 17.18 44.73 46.05
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1862 26 311 58.33 62.50 60.71 58.82 21.94 15.19 17.40 26.26 37.87
1863 27 229 91.67 62.50 75.00 20.51 13.26 19.43 16.25 32.30 35.51
1864 28 175 100.00 90.00 93.75 6.99 10.55 15.98 13.56 41.44 49.26
1865 29 116 100.00 75.00 90.00 0.00 11.27 6.06 9.99 17.74 20.13
1866 30 685 62.50 50.00 56.45 22.73 15.18 12.67 14.00 31.43 45.45
1867 31 787 82.35 73.53 77.94 20.22 11.82 14.05 12.73 29.25 31.53
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1870 34 463 70.00 61.11 65.79 28.75 12.30 20.65 15.79 42.13 52.34
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1872 36 303 75.00 75.00 75.00 4.57 15.92 8.00 12.58 27.78 35.36
1873 37 634 95.83 73.33 83.33 14.60 10.41 10.01 10.21 29.04 30.48
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1876 40 214 100.00 100.00 100.00 14.02 12.91 12.71 12.82 30.29 30.29
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1882 46 1232 81.48 57.14 70.83 20.13 13.89 12.05 13.24 27.59 30.54
1883 47 1060 63.16 73.81 68.75 15.95 9.94 10.03 9.99 21.71 27.99
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1886 50 548 65.00 60.00 62.50 11.74 12.19 12.30 12.24 21.90 30.68
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1888 52 87 100.00 100.00 100.00 11.49 22.60 14.19 14.86 60.48 60.48
1889 53 407 87.50 38.89 61.77 12.85 16.66 15.69 16.16 31.60 38.80
1890 54 198 50.00 62.50 55.56 27.52 11.56 11.17 11.24 17.61 23.94
1891 55 257 60.00 50.00 55.00 8.62 12.52 13.21 13.03 11.64 12.30
1892 56 558 68.18 41.67 54.35 33.25 8.89 13.13 10.74 28.71 36.72
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1894 58 773 60.71 46.67 53.45 12.60 11.97 11.13 11.49 21.44 29.25
1895 59 979 55.26 57.90 56.58 20.35 12.22 12.24 12.23 22.97 24.56
1896 60 23 100.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 13.25 0.00 13.25 42.51 42.51