Full l of world champions since 1886

World Chess Championship: Starting from November 25, 18-year-old Gukesh will made an audacious bid to become the youngest-ever winner of the prestigious World Chess Championship. If he succeeds in defeating Ding Liren, who currently wears the crown, Gukesh will be the 18th world champion in hory.
This will be the first time that both the players competing in the World Chess Championship will be from Asia. Fittingly, the World Chess Championship match — which will be a battle spanning 14 games (plus tiebreaks if necessary) — will be contested in another Asian country as Singapore’s Resorts World Sentosa hosts the showpiece event.
Garry Kasparov (left) greets Gukesh (right) before the teenager’s match against Magnus Carlsen earlier this year at theSuperbet Rapid & Blitz Poland tournament. (Photo Courtesy Lennart Ootes)
Many grandmasters have picked Gukesh as the favourite. This l includes Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri and grandmasters Pravin Thipsay and Abhijit Kunte.
Other grandmasters like Viswanathan Anand have given a note of caution for the teenage challenger.
Gukesh thrives in classical chess. But can he win when the pressure is at its peak at the World Chess Championship?
Ding Liren is formidable when in form. But can he find that form the time the World Championship starts?
Those two questions will decide whether an 18-year-old joins an elusive l in chess that currently has only 17 names on it!
Full l of World Chess Championship winners
There have been 17 classical world champions since 1886, starting from Wilhelm Steinitz.

No
Player
Times won
Years

1
Wilhelm Steinitz
4
1886, 1889, 1890, 1892

2
Emanuel Lasker
6
1894, 1896, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1910

3
Jose Raul Capablanca
1
1921

4
Alexander Alekhine
4
1927, 1929, 1934, 1937

5
Max Euwe
1
1935

6
Mikhail Botvinnik
5
1948, 1951, 1954, 1958, 1961

7
Vasily Smyslov
1
1957

8
Mikhail Tal
1
1960

9
Tigran Petrosian
2
1963, 1966

10
Boris Spassky
1
1969

11
Bob Fischer
1
1972

12
Anatoly Karpov
3
1975, 1978, 1981

13
Garry Kasparov
6
1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1995

14
Vladimir Kramnik
3
2000, 2004, 2006

15
Viswanathan Anand
4
2007, 2008, 2010, 2012

16
Magnus Carlsen
5
2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021

17
Ding Liren
1
2023

 
Format of the World Chess Championship games
Gukesh and Ding Liren will face off in classical format.
The time control in effect for all games will be thus: both players have 120 minutes to make the first 40 moves, from the 41st move they get additional time of 30 minutes (plus an increment of 30 seconds per move from move no 41).