{"id":9533,"date":"2021-08-18T08:24:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T08:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victoriouschess.com\/?p=9533"},"modified":"2024-06-30T06:59:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T06:59:32","slug":"a-different-perspective-on-world-chess-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victoriouschess.com\/blog\/a-different-perspective-on-world-chess-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"A different perspective on World Chess Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the world of chess, we keep hearing this term GM<\/a>. So, a few weeks back, we got the youngest ever GM in the world, Abhimanyu Mishra<\/a> from the USA at an astonishing age of 12 years 4 months & 25 days. This broke Sergey Karjakin\u2019s<\/a> record which had stood since 2002.<\/em><\/p>\n

What exactly does it mean? GM i.e., Grand Master is the highest norm awarded by Chess Federation viz. FIDE<\/strong><\/em>. Typically, top GMs battle for the most elite chess tournaments, coveted title and the most important one \u2013 World Chess Championship.<\/p>\n

Here is an interesting analysis on how recent world champions over the last 50-60 years have done<\/a><\/strong>. What age do they become a GM? When did they appear for their first world championship match? When they became world champion? Was it at the first attempt or they came back again and became world champion?Let\u2019s first look at all world chess champions <\/strong>Here is a quick look to see a bit of the past in a nutshell for 9 most recent world chess champions.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Just for reference, Tal & Petrosian is the era of the 1960s & from there right up to Carlsen who is World Champion from 2013 till now.<\/p>\n

\"\"There can be so many aspects and perspective by looking at these data points \u2013<\/p>\n