Most World Chess Championship Match Wins
About This Dataset
Most World Chess Championship Match Wins
The World Chess Championship has been contested since 1886. This chart counts total championship match wins per player, including the period from 1993 to 2006 when the title was split between the FIDE and Classical lineages.
Analysis
Emanuel Lasker, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov share the record with 6 championship wins each. 14 of these 22 players won all of their titles as undisputed champion, while the others include titles from the 1993-2006 split, when FIDE and Classical crowns ran in parallel. Across the 22 players shown, 58 championship matches were won in total. The chart counts match wins rather than years held, which favours champions who defended often over those who simply reigned a long time.
Key Findings
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Emanuel Lasker, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov are level at the top on 6 World Championship match wins.
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Average World Championship match wins: 3 · median: 1.
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Gap: Emanuel Lasker is 6× larger than Veselin Topalov.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - World Chess Championship
- Coverage
- 22 entities · 22 observations
- Measure
- World Championship match wins
- Last updated
- 10 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
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