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FIDE-sanctioned events

  • 1948 (FIDE) Botvinnik (14 points out of 20, five player, five cycle round-robin tournament)
  • 1951 (FIDE) Botvinnik-Bronstein (+5 -5 =14)
  • 1954 (FIDE) Botvinnik-Smyslov (+7 -7 =10)
  • 1957 (FIDE) Smyslov-Botvinnik (+6 -3 =13)
  • 1958 (FIDE) Botvinnik-Smyslov (+7 -5 =11)
  • 1960 (FIDE) Tal-Botvinnik (+6 -2 =13)
  • 1961 (FIDE) Botvinnik-Tal (+10 -5 =6)
  • 1963 (FIDE) Petrosian-Botvinnik (+5 -2 =15)
  • 1966 (FIDE) Petrosian-Spassky (+4 -3 =17)
  • 1969 (FIDE) Spassky-Petrosian (+6 -4 =13)
  • 1972 (FIDE) Fischer-Spassky(+7 -3 =11)
  • 1975 (FIDE) Karpov-Fischer (by default)
  • 1978 (FIDE) Karpov-Korchnoi (+6 -5 =21)
  • 1981 (FIDE) Karpov-Korchnoi (+6 -2 =10)
  • 1984 (FIDE) Karpov-Kasparov (+5 -3 =40) (aborted match)
  • 1985 (FIDE) Kasparov-Karpov (+5 -3 =16)
  • 1986 (FIDE) Kasparov-Karpov (+5 -4 =15)
  • 1987 (FIDE) Kasparov-Karpov (+4 -4 =16)
  • 1990 (FIDE) Kasparov-Karpov (+4 -3 =17)

Split title

Unification

  • 2006 Kramnik-Topalov (+3 -3 =6; Kramnik wins after tiebreaks, +2 -1 =1)
  • 2007 Anand (9 points out of 14, double round robin tournament, eight participants)
  • 2008 Anand-Kramnik
  • 2009 Anand/Kramnik-Kamsky/Topalov


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