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Most Dominant Player between 1925 and 1926 See more details
   Emanuel Lasker: 1.0 years as #1 (between January 1925 and December 1925)
The only player to be ranked #1 between 1925 and 1926 was Emanuel Lasker, with 12 different months as the top-ranked player.
Highest-Rated Player between 1925 and 1926 Summary only | Top 5 | Top 10 | Top 20 | Top 50 | Top 100
   Emanuel Lasker: 2825 (January 1925)
The player who achieved the highest peak rating between 1925 and 1926 was Emanuel Lasker, with a rating of 2825 on the January 1925 list. The next-highest peak ratings between 1925 and 1926 were achieved by José Capablanca (2801 on the January 1925 list) and Alexander Alekhine (2770 on the March 1925 list).
     Player Name       Peak Rating       World Rank (at time of Peak Rating)       Age (at time of Peak Rating)   
 #1    Emanuel Lasker      2825      #1 on January 1925 rating list      56y1m   
 #2    José Capablanca      2801      #2 on January 1925 rating list      36y2m   
 #3    Alexander Alekhine      2770      #3 on March 1925 rating list      32y5m   
 #4    Efim Bogoljubow      2758      #3 on December 1925 rating list      36y8m   
 #5    Ernst Grünfeld      2709      #4 on January 1925 rating list      31y2m   
Strongest Tournament between 1925 and 1926 See more details
   Moscow, 1925: Class 16 (#1, #3, #4, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10)
The strongest tournament held between 1925 and 1926 was Moscow 1925. This was a Class 16 tournament, including eight of the top ten players in the world (from the November 1925 rating list). The next-strongest tournaments were Baden-Baden 1925 (Class 13) and Breslau 1925 (Class 9).
Strongest Match between 1925 and 1926 See more details
   Colle-Koltanowski Match (BEL), 1925: #31 vs #53
The strongest match held between 1925 and 1926 was Colle-Koltanowski Match (BEL), 1925. This was a matchup of #31 vs #53, including #31 Edgar Colle (2539) and #53 George Koltanowski (2472) from the January 1925 rating list. There were no other matches held between 1925 and 1926 with rated players.
Best Individual Event Performance between 1925 and 1926 Summary only | Top 5 | Top 10 | Top 20 | Top 50 | Top 100
   Alexander Alekhine: 2803 in Baden-Baden, 1925
The best individual event performance between 1925 and 1926 was achieved by Alexander Alekhine with a Chessmetrics Performance Rating of 2803 in Baden-Baden, 1925. The next-best individual event performances were achieved by Efim Bogoljubow (2762 performance) in Moscow, 1925, and by José Capablanca (2760 performance) in Moscow, 1925.
      Player Name       Chessmetrics Performance Rating    Event
 #1    Alexander Alekhine      2803 performance: 13/16 (81%) vs 2617   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #2    Efim Bogoljubow      2762 performance: 10/14 (71%) vs 2647   Moscow, 1925
 #3    José Capablanca      2760 performance: 10/14 (71%) vs 2645   Moscow, 1925
 #4    Aron Nimzowitsch      2755 performance: 10/13 (77%) vs 2609   Marienbad, 1925
 #5    Milan Vidmar Sr      2744 performance: 8.5/9 (94%) vs 2532   Hastings, 1925
 #6    Friedrich Sämisch      2740 performance: 11/16 (69%) vs 2629   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #7    Efim Bogoljubow      2738 performance: 6.5/8 (81%) vs 2617   Breslau, 1925
 #8    Emanuel Lasker      2737 performance: 9.5/14 (68%) vs 2642   Moscow, 1925
 #9    Akiba Rubinstein      2735 performance: 9.5/13 (73%) vs 2611   Marienbad, 1925
 #10    Akiba Rubinstein      2734 performance: 11/16 (69%) vs 2623   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #11    Alexander Alekhine      2731 performance: 8/8 (100%) vs 2502   Hastings, 1925
 #12    Efim Bogoljubow      2715 performance: 10.5/16 (66%) vs 2622   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #13    Saviely Tartakower      2705 performance: 8.5/14 (61%) vs 2651   Moscow, 1925
 #14    Saviely Tartakower      2698 performance: 10/16 (63%) vs 2623   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #15    Hans Kmoch      2696 performance: 9/12 (75%) vs 2560   Debrecen, 1925
 #16    Carlos Torre Repetto      2695 performance: 9/14 (64%) vs 2616   Marienbad, 1925
 #17    Frank Marshall      2694 performance: 8.5/13 (65%) vs 2613   Marienbad, 1925
 #18    Richard Réti      2692 performance: 8.5/13 (65%) vs 2610   Marienbad, 1925
 #19    Alexander Alekhine      2691 performance: 6.5/8 (81%) vs 2557   Paris, 1925
 #20    Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky      2686 performance: 8.5/15 (57%) vs 2652   Moscow, 1925
 #21    Frank Marshall      2683 performance: 8/14 (57%) vs 2650   Moscow, 1925
 #22    Frank Marshall      2680 performance: 9.5/16 (59%) vs 2624   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #23    Saviely Tartakower      2672 performance: 8/13 (62%) vs 2612   Marienbad, 1925
 #24    Carlos Torre Repetto      2666 performance: 7.5/14 (54%) vs 2653   Moscow, 1925
 #25    Ilya Rabinovich      2664 performance: 9.5/17 (56%) vs 2626   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #26    Ernst Grünfeld      2659 performance: 9/16 (56%) vs 2621   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #27    Akiba Rubinstein      2654 performance: 5/8 (63%) vs 2618   Breslau, 1925
 #28    Peter Romanovsky      2650 performance: 7/14 (50%) vs 2658   Moscow, 1925
 #29    Paul Johner      2649 performance: 7.5/11 (68%) vs 2554   Debrecen, 1925
 #30    Carlos Torre Repetto      2646 performance: 9/17 (53%) vs 2626   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #31    Richard Réti      2644 performance: 7/14 (50%) vs 2651   Moscow, 1925
 #32    Ernst Grünfeld      2644 performance: 7/14 (50%) vs 2651   Moscow, 1925
 #33    Fedor Bohatirchuk      2628 performance: 7/15 (47%) vs 2652   Moscow, 1925
 #34    Ernst Grünfeld      2627 performance: 7/13 (54%) vs 2609   Marienbad, 1925
 #35    Rudolf Spielmann      2626 performance: 6.5/14 (46%) vs 2654   Moscow, 1925
 #36    Aron Nimzowitsch      2624 performance: 4.5/8 (56%) vs 2616   Breslau, 1925
 #37    Saviely Tartakower      2623 performance: 7/11 (64%) vs 2551   Debrecen, 1925
 #38    Heinrich Wagner      2619 performance: 4/8 (50%) vs 2644   Breslau, 1925
 #39    Rudolf Spielmann      2609 performance: 6.5/13 (50%) vs 2613   Marienbad, 1925
 #40    Grigory Levenfish      2608 performance: 6.5/15 (43%) vs 2652   Moscow, 1925
 #41    Boris Verlinsky      2608 performance: 6.5/15 (43%) vs 2652   Moscow, 1925
 #42    Vladimir Vukovic      2608 performance: 6.5/11 (59%) vs 2562   Debrecen, 1925
 #43    Rudolf Spielmann      2606 performance: 7.5/16 (47%) vs 2624   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #44    Aron Nimzowitsch      2604 performance: 7.5/16 (47%) vs 2621   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #45    Karel Opocenský      2604 performance: 4/8 (50%) vs 2626   Paris, 1925
 #46    Akiba Rubinstein      2601 performance: 6/14 (43%) vs 2649   Moscow, 1925
 #47    Edgar Colle      2599 performance: 5.5/7 (79%) vs 2472   Colle-Koltanowski Match (BEL), 1925
 #48    Saviely Tartakower      2598 performance: 4.5/8 (56%) vs 2583   Paris, 1925
 #49    Eugene Znosko-Borovsky      2597 performance: 4/8 (50%) vs 2618   Paris, 1925
 #50    Ernst Grünfeld      2596 performance: 6.5/11 (59%) vs 2547   Debrecen, 1925
 #51    Dawid Przepiórka      2592 performance: 6/13 (46%) vs 2618   Marienbad, 1925
 #52    Jakob Seitz      2592 performance: 5/8 (63%) vs 2540   Hastings, 1925
 #53    Frederick Yates      2592 performance: 6/13 (46%) vs 2617   Marienbad, 1925
 #54    Lajos Steiner      2588 performance: 6/11 (55%) vs 2566   Debrecen, 1925
 #55    Ilya Rabinovich      2587 performance: 5.5/14 (39%) vs 2656   Moscow, 1925
 #56    Richard Réti      2586 performance: 7/16 (44%) vs 2622   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #57    Albert Becker      2583 performance: 3.5/8 (44%) vs 2635   Breslau, 1925
 #58    Stefano Rosselli del Turco      2582 performance: 6.5/16 (41%) vs 2638   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #59    Dawid Przepiórka      2581 performance: 6/11 (55%) vs 2558   Debrecen, 1925
 #60    Friedrich Sämisch      2580 performance: 3.5/8 (44%) vs 2632   Breslau, 1925
 #61    Karel Opocenský      2577 performance: 5.5/13 (42%) vs 2625   Marienbad, 1925
 #62    Carl Carls      2575 performance: 7/17 (41%) vs 2626   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #63    Siegbert Tarrasch      2573 performance: 6.5/16 (41%) vs 2628   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #64    George Thomas      2573 performance: 5.5/13 (42%) vs 2620   Marienbad, 1925
 #65    Karel Treybal      2572 performance: 6.5/16 (41%) vs 2627   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #66    Richard Réti      2570 performance: 3.5/8 (44%) vs 2619   Breslau, 1925
 #67    Friedrich Sämisch      2569 performance: 5/14 (36%) vs 2658   Moscow, 1925
 #68    Jakob Seitz      2567 performance: 5.5/11 (50%) vs 2569   Debrecen, 1925
 #69    Georg Schories      2556 performance: 2.5/6 (42%) vs 2619   Wiesbaden, 1925
 #70    Reginald Michell      2555 performance: 4.5/8 (56%) vs 2529   Hastings, 1925
 #71    Kornél Havasi      2543 performance: 5/11 (45%) vs 2568   Debrecen, 1925
 #72    Ernst Grünfeld      2541 performance: 3/8 (38%) vs 2618   Breslau, 1925
 #73    Ladislav Prokeš      2540 performance: 5/11 (45%) vs 2565   Debrecen, 1925
 #74    Frederick Yates      2536 performance: 5.5/16 (34%) vs 2628   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #75    Hermann von Gottschall      2528 performance: 3/9 (33%) vs 2626   Breslau, 1925
 #76    Frederick Yates      2528 performance: 4/14 (29%) vs 2657   Moscow, 1925
 #77    Edgar Colle      2527 performance: 4/8 (50%) vs 2531   Hastings, 1925
 #78    Siegbert Tarrasch      2525 performance: 2.5/8 (31%) vs 2634   Breslau, 1925
 #79    Frederick Yates      2522 performance: 4/8 (50%) vs 2523   Hastings, 1925
 #80    Jacques Mieses      2520 performance: 5/16 (31%) vs 2631   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #81    Edgar Colle      2520 performance: 5/16 (31%) vs 2631   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #82    George Thomas      2519 performance: 5/16 (31%) vs 2630   Baden-Baden, 1925
 #83    Dawid Janowsky      2513 performance: 4/13 (31%) vs 2624   Marienbad, 1925
 #84    Solomon Gothilf      2512 performance: 4/15 (27%) vs 2652   Moscow, 1925
 #85    Fedor Dus-Chotimirsky      2510 performance: 3.5/14 (25%) vs 2661   Moscow, 1925
 #86    Friedrich Sämisch      2508 performance: 4/13 (31%) vs 2619   Marienbad, 1925
 #87    Hermanis Matisons      2495 performance: 4.5/12 (38%) vs 2560   Debrecen, 1925
 #88    Lajos Asztalos      2490 performance: 4/11 (36%) vs 2562   Debrecen, 1925
 #89    Géza Nagy      2487 performance: 4/11 (36%) vs 2558   Debrecen, 1925
 #90    R Max Blümich      2475 performance: 2/9 (22%) vs 2626   Breslau, 1925
 #91    Dawid Janowsky      2474 performance: 3/8 (38%) vs 2535   Hastings, 1925
 #92    George Norman      2458 performance: 2.5/8 (31%) vs 2549   Hastings, 1925
 #93    Nikolay Zubarev      2454 performance: 2.5/15 (17%) vs 2652   Moscow, 1925
 #94    Victor Wahltuch      2451 performance: 2.5/8 (31%) vs 2541   Hastings, 1925
 #95    Edward Sergeant      2445 performance: 2.5/8 (31%) vs 2534   Hastings, 1925
 #96    Arpád Vajda      2445 performance: 3/11 (27%) vs 2564   Debrecen, 1925
 #97    August Haida      2432 performance: 2.5/14 (18%) vs 2616   Marienbad, 1925
 #98    Edgar Colle      2425 performance: 1/8 (13%) vs 2615   Paris, 1925
 #99    Reginald Michell      2425 performance: 2/13 (15%) vs 2621   Marienbad, 1925
 #100    George Koltanowski      2410 performance: 1.5/7 (21%) vs 2539   Colle-Koltanowski Match (BEL), 1925
NOTE: "Chessmetrics Performance Rating" is a Chessmetrics formula used to estimate the performance level of a player, based solely on the evidence of their results in one event. It only considers games against rated opposition, so the above summary excludes any games against unrated opponents.