The History Of Chess: The World Chess Championship

I am 86 y.o. And playing chess for the past 55 years. The last 7 years on line. For the past 25 years my mental capacity has not only changed but made me wiser. Chess is all about concentration, planning and strategy. It keeps your neurons in active mode . One cannot play chess in my age to be either senile ,demented or forgetful. I love the game because it keep me sharp. According to mathematics, the odd of repeating the game exactly twice is 252,000,000,000. N.D. Lessani, MD

holy guacamole that was amazing. easily one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. PLEASE do more about chrss history. It's what the chess community needs to realize this game isn't just Magnus and supercomputers finding the best moves, but actual styles of play and players that for so long determined the game

I'm beginning to understand chess is really like an ocean in complexity. There's place of brashness, boldness, creativity, fear, light touch, nimbleness, anger, bluffs. It is a beautiful game, rich with stunningly creative ideas and tactics. It has stood the test of time because each generation realizes in greater depth than the previous one, how many more things are possible in a game, how far ahead can pieces support each other, how deep and far-seeing ideas can be, and how rich a battlefield it is to display the full range of human cleverness and emotions.

Thanks for the chess history, Gus Fring. Between running a successful fast-food franchise and an even more successful meth empire, I'm surprised he found the time.

Chess world champion must be the most exclusive club that there is. Just 17 members over 140 years, only 7 of them alive.

This is so wonderfully made :) Hope this could become a series and will include the history of the FIDE, openings, schools of thought, international tournaments, ratings, title etc. Thanks again!

I taught my sons and grandsons. When the family gets together, we have a family tournament.lots of fun for everyone! Best game ever.

This is brilliantly done - congrats :)

as a Mikhail Tal Fan its so sad that he was not included on the final slideshow of chess world champions :( I mean he held it once too.

There seems to be a shift in the cultural zeitgeist. I think chess is returning to mainstream popularity. Oddly enough I recently searched for a good chess doc and nothing this comprehensive came up. There is so much room for historic documentaries about chess like this. Thank you for this amazing documentary.

This was highly impressive video . Probably one of the best videos of this channel this year . Happy to see Kramnik and Spassky given a very fair treatment in their influence on the modern game . Anand and Short (current and former FIDE vice -presidents ) discussing the world champions was a nice touch . 🙂 . Please put timestamps for this video for there are lot of interesting quotes and anecdotes which would be missed (eg. Anand's discussion of Capablanca and Alekhine , Tal turning up to challenge Botvinnik at age 11 , Petrosian's unusual preparation for world championship match ).

Great stuff. Thanks for putting this together. Glad to see documentaries like this

Best chess documentary yet. Very well done. Thank you!

compliments to the folks that produced this video....really well done. About halfway thru and really enjoying it!

Well done, been looking for a documentary like this for a while.

I loved this in the original context, the WC between Magnus and Jan 2021, and I am happy to finally see it all as a full documentary. (It stopped somewhere before getting to Spassky.) Many Thanks! It is very brief but very good.

Good documentary. The effort behind the scenes definitely shows in the production and quality. Good job! 🎉❤

This is amazing! I love documentaries and Chess. And they came together on my birthday. Lucky me 😳🤯🙌🥳

Lasker's books were the first I remember reading in the mid 90's when I started learning the game, along with Karpovs

Such a captivating story, I feel goosebumps every time I see the history of chess world champions.