Mikhail Chigorin club

Mikhail Chigorin Club

File:Mikhail Chigorin 1908.jpg Mikhail Chigorin
Abbreviation	MCC
Formation	June 3, 1995 (1995-06-03)
Founder	Vitaly Gnirenko
Type	symbolic club
Website	chigorinsclub.wordpress.com

Mikhail Chigorin's club is a symbolic club uniting chess players from all over the world who have won at least one game with classical time control in the official competition against the world champion at the time of holding this title. The results of consulting, thematic and training tournaments are not taken into account. A chess player who once won the title of world champion according to the classical version, withdraws from the club. The club was created on the initiative of Vitaly Gnirenko, a chess player from Rostov-on-Don and named after the Russian chess player Mikhail Chigorin (1850-1908), who on January 20, 1889 was the first to defeat the world chess champion Wilhelm Steinitz and beat him in 13 games, but he never managed to become the world champion. For the first time, an article describing the principle of selection to the club and an extract from the chronological register of club members was published in the magazine "64 - Chess Review", № 1, 2012. As of July 31, 2018, there were 16 world champions in the history of chess in the classical version. The first was Wilhelm Steinitz, and on November 22, 2013, Magnus Carlsen became the sixteenth. Only the victory over a classic world champion allows to become a member of the Mikhail Chigorin club. Victories over other versions of world championships do not count for membership in the club.

History

It is prestigious for any chess player to win the world champion at the official competition with classical control. This goal has not been achieved by many outstanding grandmasters of the past, such as Rudolf Spielmann, Aron Nimzowitsch, Géza Maróczy, Salo Flohr, Leonid Stein and Lev Polugaevsky. Alexander Khalifman(1999-2000) and Rustam Kasimdzhanov (2004-2005) never won a classical world chess champion according to the FIDE system. Among the modern chess players who are among the top ten in Elo rating, as of July 31, 2018, Ding Liren and Anish Giri have not yet won such victories. No woman chess player, including Vera Menchik and Judith Polgar, who have excellent results in men's competitions, have such an achievement. At the same time, many chess players who have won sensational victories over the world championships are forgotten. The main purpose of creating the club of Mikhail Chigorin is to preserve the names of all those who have won at least once the reigning world champion in the history of chess. The first mention of the club in the press was given in the republican newspaper "Turkmen spark" dated June 3, 1995. The published article was written on the basis of a letter from Vitaly Gnirenko to local master Anatoly Kudryashov, who had defeated the world champion Tigran Petrosyan in 1967. In January 2017, the first issue of the chess bulletin "Mikhail Chigorin's Club" was published in Rostov-on-Don. The material of the bulletin in A4 format is available in Russian and English. As of July 31, 2018, there were 110 chess players at the Mikhail Chigorin Club, since the establishment of the title "World Chess Champion" in 1886. 14 world champions lost membership in the club. Wilhelm Steinitz and Anatoly Karpov were never the members of the club.

Major records

Mikhail Chigorin is the most successful in terms of the number of victories over the world championships. He has 15 victories. He beat Wilhelm Steinitz 14 times and he beat Emanuel Lasker once. A unique member of the club is the FIDE world champion from Bulgaria, grandmaster Veselin Topalov (2005-2006), who has beaten four world champions in the classical version: twice Garry Kasparov, four times Vladimir Kramnik, three times Viswanathan Anand and twice Magnus Carlsen. The career of the strongest English chess player of the end of the 19th century Joseph Blackburne (1841-1924) is distinguished by examples of sports longevity. At the age of 53, he defeated world champion Emanuel Lasker for the first time at a tournament in Hastings (1895) and again four years later at a tournament in London (1899). The American grandmaster Gata Kamsky (born 1974) became the youngest member of the club in 1992 at a tournament in Dortmund, beating world champion Garry Kasparov before reaching the age of 18. The shortest game was won by Grandmaster Vladimir Liberzon (1937-1996), the world champion, in 1964. Tigran Petrosyan resigned on the 15th move.

Club membership

World Champion Winner	Year and venue of the competition	Defeated world champion
1. Mikhail Chigorin	1889. Havana	Wilhelm Steinitz
2. Isidor Gunsberg	1890. New York
3. Kurt von Bardeleben	1895. Hastings	Emanuel Lasker
4. Siegbert Tarrasch	1895. Hastings
5. Joseph Blackburne	1895. Hastings
6. Harry Pillsbury	1895 / 96. St. Petersburg
7.David Janowski	1896. Nuremberg
8.Rudolf Charousek	1896
9.Frank James Marshall	1900
10.Carl Schlechter	1904. Cambridge Springs
11.Akiba Rubinstein	1909. St. Petersburg
12. Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky	1909. St. Petersburg
13. Osip Bernstein	1914. St. Petersburg
14. Richard Reti	1924	José Raúl Capablanca
15. Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky	1925. Moscow
16. Boris Verlinsky	1925
17. Efim Bogolyubov	1929. Wiesbaden	Alexander Alekhine
18. Herman Mattison	1931. Prague
19. Oscar Negeli	1932. Bern
20. Arthur Dake	1932. Pasadena
21. Savielly Tartakower	1933. Folkestone
22. Petrus van Horn	1937. Leiden.	Max Euwe
23. Andre Lilienthal	1937. Stockholm
24. Thorsten Gauffin	1937. Stockholm
25. Vladimir Petrov	1938. Margit	Alexander Alekhine
26. Reubin Fine	1938. Amsterdam
27. Karel Opochensky	1941. Munich
28. Bjorn Nielsen	1941. Munich
29. Klaus Junge	1942 Salzburg
30.Ludwig Rellstab	1942. Munich
31. Arturo Bone	1945. Gijon
32. Antonio Medina	1945. Gijon
33. Lopez Nunez	1945. Almeria
34. Francisco Lupi	1946. Estoril
35. Paul Keres	1948. Moscow	Mikhail Botvinnik
36. David Bronstein	1951
37. Nikolay Kopilov	1951. Moscow
38. Efim Geller	1951. Moscow
39. Jozsef Szily	1952. Budapest
40. Mark Taimanov	1952. Moscow
41. Samuel Reshevsky	1955. Moscow
42. Miroslav Filip	1957. Baden	Vasily Smyslov
43. Andreas Duckstein	1958. Munich	Mikhail Botvinnik
44. Jonathan Penrose	1960. Leipzig	Mikhail Tal
45. Wolfgang Unzicker	1961. Oberhausen	Mikhail Botvinnik
46. Wolfgang Ullmann	1962. Varna
47. Svetozar Gligoric	1963. Los Angeles	Tigran Petrosyan
48. Viktor Korchnoi	1963. Moscow
49. Vladimir Liberzon	1964
50. Lajos Portisch	1965. Zagreb
51. Bent Larsen	1966. Santa Monica
52. Anatoly Kudriashov	1967. Moscow
53. Borislav Ivkov	1968. Palma de Mallorca
54. Ulf Andersson	1975. Milan	Anatoly Karpov
55. Eugenio Torre	1976. Manila
56. Alexander Belyavsky	1977. Leningrad
57. Jan Timman	1978
58. Igor Ivanov	1979.Moscow
59. Anthony Miles	1980. Skara
60. Yuri Balashov	1980. Rostov-on-Don
61. Zoltan Ribli	1980. Amsterdam.
62. Fridrik Olafsson	1980. Buenos Aires
63. Vlastimil Hort	1981. Amsterdam
64. Palermo Garcia	1982. Mar del Plata
65. Yasser Seirawan	1982. London
66. Lubomir Ljubojevic	1982. Turin
67. Zurab Azmaiparashvili	1983. Moscow
68. Wolfram Hartmann	1983. Hannover
69. Nigel Short	1986. Brussels	Garry Kasparov
70. Andrei Sokolov	1988. Reykjavik
71. Artur Yusupov	1989. Barcelona
72. Boris Gulko	1990. Linares
73. Vasily Ivanchuk	1991. Linares
74. Gata Kamsky	1992. Dortmund
75. Robert Hubner	1992. Dortmund
76. Joel Lautier	1994. Linares
77. Alexander Schneider	1994. Lyon
78. Veselin Topalov	1994. Moscow
79. Jereon Piket	1995. Amsterdam
80. Peter Svidler	1997. Tilburg
81. Ivan Sokolov	1999. Wijk aan Zee
82. Alexander Morozevich	2001. Wijk aan Zee	Vladimir Kramnik
83. Ruslan Ponomariov	2003. Wijk aan Zee
84. Alexei Shirov	2003. Wijk aan Zee
85. Loek Van Wely	2003. Wijk aan Zee
86. Vladimir Hakobyan	2004. Wijk aan Zee
87. Michael Adams	2004. Wijk aan Zee
88. Peter Leko	2004. Brissago
89. Emil Sutovsky	2005. Dortmund
90. Etienne Bacrot	2005. Dortmund
91. Evgeny Bareev	2005. Moscow
92. Teymur Rajabov	2008. Wijk aan Zee	Viswanathan Anand
93. Levon Aronian	2008. Morelia
94. Hikaru Nakamura	2011. London
95. Sergei Tiviakov	2012. Baden Baden
96. Boris Gelfand	2012. Moscow
97. Wang Hao	2013. Wijk aan Zee
98. Fabiano Caruana	2013. Zurich
99. Arkadij Naiditsch	2014. Tromsø	Magnus Carlsen
100. Ivan Šarić	2014. Tromsø
101. Radoslaw Wojtaszek	2015. Wijk aan Zee
102. Jon Hammer	2015. Stavanger
103. Alexander Grischuk	2015. St. Louis
104. Yannick Pelletier	2015. Reykjavik
105. Sergey Karjakin	2016. New York
106. Richárd Rapport	2017. Wijk aan Zee
107. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2017. St. Louis
108. Bu Xiangzhi	2017. Tbilisi.
109. Ian Nepomniachtchi	2017. London
110. Wesley So	2018. Stavanger
111. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2018. Bil

Sources

• Painters, B' Ashgabatec is a member of the World Chess Champions Club. "Turkmenskaya spark", June 3, 1995.
• "Gnirenko, V."" Records of two symbolic clubs/// "Chess time" magazine Omsk, 25 February 1998.
• Gnirenko, V. Two symbolic clubs. All-Russian Chess Week newspaper No. 21 (52), May 2003.
• "Gnirenko, V." Records of two symbolic clubs //64 - Chess Review. 2012. № 1. С. 82—84.
• Gnirenko, V. 100th member of Mikhail Chigorin’s club//50 Moves Magazine.-2014.-October.-p. 24-25.
• Wall, B. Mikhail Chigorin Club.-2014.-October.
• Gnirenko, V. A Year in the Life//New in Chess.-2015.-No.2.-p. 11-15.-ISBN 978-90-5691-578.
• Gnirenko, V. En eksklusiv klubb//Norst Sjakkblad.-2015.-No.3.-p. 52-53.
• "Mallard, D. How to beat the world champion? - 10.11.2015
• Chigorin Club replenishment 18.11.2015
• "Gnirenko, V." Two years on the chess throne (to the 25th anniversary of Magnus Carlsen)// 64 - Chess Review. 2015. № 11. С. 84—90.
• Ilyumzhinov, K. In memory of Mark Taimanov. - — 28.11.2016
• Gnirenko, V. From Mikhail Chigorin to Jan Nepomniashchy // 64 - Chess Review. 2018. № 2. С. 90—91.
• Mikhail Chigorin's Club Website: https://chigorinsclub.wordpress.com

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