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14 pages, ebook
Published January 9, 2021
age number of years when world chess champ was this age (through 2020)
19 1 Ruslan Ponomariov, 2002
20 2
21 2
22 3
23 4
24 6
25 5
26 6
27 6
28 7
29 10
30 13
31 12
32 11
33 14
34 12
35 13
36 14
37 14
38 15
39 14
40 12
41 10
42 9
43 8
44 7
45 7
46 6
47 7
48 5
49 4
50 6
51 6
52 5
53 3
54 2
55 2
56 2
57 2
58 1 Philidor, 1784-1794, according to Wikipedia
59 1
60 1
61 1
62 1
63 1
64 1
65 1
66 1
67 1
68 1
tot yr Name
9.3 average total reign
40 François-André Danican Philidor
27 Emanuel Lasker
25 Legall de Kermeur
20 Wilhelm Steinitz
19 Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais
17 Alexander Alekhine
16 Ruy López de Segura
14 Gioachino Greco
13 Mikhail Botvinnik
13 Anatoly Karpov
11 Adolf Anderssen
11 Garry Kasparov
08 Howard Staunton
08 Johannes Zukertort
08 Viswanathan Anand
08 Magnus Carlsen
06 Alexandre Deschapelles
06 José Raúl Capablanca
06 Tigran Petrosian
04 Paul Morphy
03 Boris Spassky
03 Bobby Fischer
02 Max Euwe
02 Ruslan Ponomariov
01 Leonardo di Bona
01 Alessandro Salvio
01 Vasily Smyslov
01 Mikhail Tal
01 Alexander Khalifman
01 Rustam Kasimdzhanov
01 Veselin Topalov
01 Vladimir Kramnik
00 Paolo Boi (I'm listing di Bona instead for 1575)
These are on the list more than once, total years of reigns above:
00 Vladimir Kramnik (I'm listing FIDE champs instead for 2000-2006)
Adolf Anderssen
Wilhelm Steinitz
Alexander Alekhine
Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Botvinnik
Garry Kasparov
Anatoly Karpov
Viswanathan Anand