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World Chess Championship
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We have compiled comprehensive game collections of some great players. The following table links to pages with:-
- an overview of the player's career
- except where indicated, a PGN file (in ZIP format) of the player's games
| Tournament, Match, and Exhibition Records |
Creation Date |
Games? | |
|---|---|---|---|
| V.Anand | World champion (FIDE 2000-2002) | 2001-01-01 | |
| P.Boi (Paolo) and Leonardo de Cutri | The Light and Lustre of Chess | 2004-03-15 | No |
| G.Deschapelles | Unofficial world champion (ca. 1820) | 2002-02-01 | No |
| A.Karpov (1960-1984) | World champion (XII 1975-1985, FIDE 1993-1999) | 2001-03-01 | |
| A.Karpov (1985-) | 2001-04-01 | ||
| G.Kasparov | World champion (XIII 1985-1993, PCA 1993-2000) | 2000-10-15 | |
| V.Kramnik | World champion (Braingames 2000-) | 2000-11-01 | |
| L.Labourdonnais | Unofficial world champion (ca. 1834) | 2001-08-01 | No |
| R.Ponomariov | World champion (FIDE 2002-2005) | 2002-02-15 | |
| H.Staunton | Unofficial world champion (ca. 1843) | 2000-12-01 | |
The PGN files use the naming convention 'YYM-xxxx', where:-
- YY = year
- M = month, e.g. A = January ... L = December (X = month unknown)
- xxxx = shorthand for the venue of the event, e.g. 'LOND' for London.
This means that the 48 games from Kasparov's first title match with Karpov are in a file named 84I-MOSC.PGN, which indicates that the event started in September 1984, and was played in Moscow. This naming convention has the advantage that file names sort in chronological order.
The year of an event is the year in which it started, so all of the games from the first Kasparov - Karpov match, which started in 1984 and ended in 1985, are in a single file bearing the year 1984. Where an event was played in more than one venue, the name of the first venue is used , so the games from K-K III, played in London and Leningrad, are in 86G-LOND.PGN.
Round numbers in team events correspond to the rounds the team played, which are usually more rounds than an individual plays.
Some events are highlighted in color...
...This means that we have game scores for the event, but no other information. Since the game scores are from other digital game collections and have not been matched against any written record of the event, it is possible that they are incorrect.
1982 25th Olympiad, Lucerne 82J-LUCE 11/11 1982 Event? 82X-$URX 1/? You may have trouble downloading the ZIP file. The symptoms are a page titled 'Tripod - page not found' and a message 'Sorry, but the page or file that you're looking for is not here'. This is caused by Lycos Tripod, the host site for the tournament, match, and exhibition records. Here's what Tripod says about this problem:-
Q: Why can't I connect to my downloadable file?
A: You may experience connectivity issues with files that are too large. These files are hosted by a different machine than our membership servers, and may not connect when there's heavy traffic on that machine. In addition, we use an interstitial page to prevent the remote use of files, and this page tends to get in the way of these large files. Clicking through this page usually works, but there may be times when your browser caches a copy of this page, rather than downloading the file itself. In this circumstance, clear your browser's cache and attempt the download again.
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