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Most Dominant Player between 1962 and 1967 See more details
   Tigran Petrosian: 2.1 years as #1 (between January 1962 and January 1964)
The player who was ranked #1 most often between 1962 and 1967 was Tigran Petrosian, with 25 different months as the top-ranked player (a total of 2.1 years). Next on the list were Bobby Fischer (1.5 years) and Mikhail Tal (0.6 years).
Highest-Rated Player between 1962 and 1967 Summary only | Top 5 | Top 10 | Top 20 | Top 50 | Top 100
   Bobby Fischer: 2804 (December 1966)
The player who achieved the highest peak rating between 1962 and 1967 was Bobby Fischer, with a rating of 2804 on the December 1966 list. The next-highest peak ratings between 1962 and 1967 were achieved by Tigran Petrosian (2796 on the July 1962 list) and Viktor Korchnoi (2777 on the January 1962 list).
     Player Name       Peak Rating       World Rank (at time of Peak Rating)       Age (at time of Peak Rating)   
 #1    Bobby Fischer      2804      #1 on December 1966 rating list      23y9m   
 #2    Tigran Petrosian      2796      #1 on July 1962 rating list      33y1m   
 #3    Viktor Korchnoi      2777      #2 on January 1962 rating list      30y10m   
 #4    Mikhail Botvinnik      2774      #3 on January 1962 rating list      50y5m   
 #5    Boris Spassky      2773      #2 on November 1962 rating list      25y10m   
 #6    Mikhail Tal      2773      #2 on November 1965 rating list      29y0m   
 #7    Efim Geller      2765      #3 on August 1963 rating list      38y5m   
 #8    Paul Keres      2764      #3 on July 1962 rating list      46y6m   
 #9    Leonid Stein      2759      #4 on September 1966 rating list      31y10m   
 #10    Lev Polugaevsky      2747      #5 on February 1966 rating list      31y3m   
 #11    Vassily Smyslov      2745      #6 on December 1964 rating list      43y9m   
 #12    Bent Larsen      2725      #10 on August 1966 rating list      31y5m   
 #13    Miguel Najdorf      2721      #12 on December 1965 rating list      55y8m   
 #14    David Bronstein      2718      #12 on February 1965 rating list      41y0m   
 #15    Lajos Portisch      2716      #11 on November 1966 rating list      29y7m   
 #16    Svetozar Gligoric      2715      #10 on January 1962 rating list      38y11m   
 #17    Evgeny Vasiukov      2714      #11 on September 1962 rating list      29y6m   
 #18    Mark Taimanov      2712      #12 on September 1966 rating list      40y7m   
 #19    Yury Averbakh      2709      #12 on June 1962 rating list      40y4m   
 #20    Borislav Ivkov      2702      #15 on March 1966 rating list      32y4m   
 #21    Ratmir Kholmov      2699      #15 on January 1962 rating list      36y8m   
 #22    Anatoly Lutikov      2693      #17 on October 1966 rating list      33y8m   
 #23    Samuel Reshevsky      2690      #14 on July 1962 rating list      50y8m   
 #24    Wolfgang Uhlmann      2688      #18 on September 1966 rating list      31y6m   
 #25    Isaak Boleslavsky      2685      #20 on September 1966 rating list      47y3m   
 #26    Vlastimil Hort      2681      #20 on December 1966 rating list      22y11m   
 #27    Raúl Sanguinetti      2677      #18 on January 1965 rating list      31y11m   
 #28    Miroslav Filip      2677      #17 on March 1962 rating list      33y5m   
 #29    Leonid Shamkovich      2675      #19 on January 1966 rating list      42y7m   
 #30    Vladimir Antoshin      2673      #18 on December 1963 rating list      34y7m   
 #31    Wolfgang Unzicker      2673      #22 on December 1966 rating list      41y6m   
 #32    Nikolay Krogius      2673      #23 on December 1966 rating list      36y5m   
 #33    Alexey Suetin      2672      #19 on March 1966 rating list      39y4m   
 #34    Aivars Gipslis      2672      #20 on January 1964 rating list      26y11m   
 #35    Fridrik Olafsson      2670      #21 on January 1964 rating list      29y0m   
 #36    Iivo Nei      2667      #22 on December 1964 rating list      33y2m   
 #37    Lev Aronin      2666      #19 on January 1962 rating list      41y6m   
 #38    Pal Benko      2663      #24 on May 1964 rating list      35y10m   
 #39    Anatoly Lein      2662      #29 on September 1966 rating list      35y6m   
 #40    Aleksandar Matanovic      2661      #21 on January 1962 rating list      31y8m   
 #41    William Lombardy      2661      #22 on January 1962 rating list      24y1m   
 #42    Ludek Pachmann      2657      #27 on November 1966 rating list      42y6m   
 #43    Arturo Pomar Salamanca      2655      #23 on March 1962 rating list      30y6m   
 #44    Robert Byrne      2654      #25 on February 1962 rating list      33y10m   
 #45    Larry Evans      2653      #25 on January 1963 rating list      30y10m   
 #46    Milan Matulovic      2649      #30 on December 1966 rating list      31y6m   
 #47    Lothar Schmid      2649      #25 on October 1962 rating list      34y5m   
 #48    Oscar Panno      2649      #30 on November 1966 rating list      31y8m   
 #49    László Szabó      2646      #28 on March 1966 rating list      49y0m   
 #50    Klaus Darga      2645      #29 on June 1964 rating list      30y4m   
 #51    Florin Gheorghiu      2643      #32 on November 1966 rating list      22y7m   
 #52    Semen Furman      2641      #31 on June 1966 rating list      45y6m   
 #53    Eduard Gufeld      2640      #31 on July 1964 rating list      28y4m   
 #54    Rashid Nezhmetdinov      2637      #33 on January 1965 rating list      52y1m   
 #55    Vladimir Savon      2636      #34 on December 1966 rating list      26y3m   
 #56    Roman Dzindzichashvili      2635      #35 on February 1966 rating list      21y9m   
 #57    Bruno Parma      2634      #35 on April 1966 rating list      24y4m   
 #58    István Bilek      2633      #37 on December 1966 rating list      34y4m   
 #59    Boris Vladimirov      2632      #34 on January 1965 rating list      35y8m   
 #60    Julio Bolbochán      2629      #38 on September 1966 rating list      46y6m   
 #61    Petar Trifunovic      2629      #34 on December 1962 rating list      52y4m   
 #62    Levente Lengyel      2628      #36 on December 1964 rating list      31y6m   
 #63    Vladimir Simagin      2627      #36 on January 1962 rating list      42y7m   
 #64    Alexander Kotov      2626      #36 on January 1963 rating list      49y5m   
 #65    Helmut Pfleger      2623      #40 on February 1966 rating list      22y6m   
 #66    Georgy Tringov      2622      #40 on May 1964 rating list      27y2m   
 #67    Vladimir Liberzon      2622      #41 on January 1966 rating list      28y10m   
 #68    Dragoljub Ciric      2622      #45 on December 1966 rating list      31y1m   
 #69    Johannes Donner      2622      #46 on August 1966 rating list      39y1m   
 #70    Bukhuti Gurgenidze      2620      #44 on March 1966 rating list      32y4m   
 #71    Herman Pilnik      2619      #40 on January 1964 rating list      50y0m   
 #72    Janis Klovans      2619      #41 on January 1963 rating list      27y9m   
 #73    Victor Zheliandinov      2618      #49 on December 1966 rating list      31y9m   
 #74    Héctor Rossetto      2618      #41 on February 1962 rating list      39y5m   
 #75    Donald Byrne      2616      #42 on December 1962 rating list      32y6m   
 #76    Yury Sakharov      2615      #50 on August 1966 rating list      43y11m   
 #77    Wolfgang Pietzsch      2611      #51 on May 1966 rating list      35y5m   
 #78    Alexander Zaitsev      2611      #54 on December 1965 rating list      30y6m   
 #79    Lubomir Kavalek      2610      #56 on December 1966 rating list      23y4m   
 #80    Alexander Cherepkov      2610      #43 on January 1962 rating list      41y3m   
 #81    Anatoly Bannik      2609      #47 on January 1963 rating list      41y1m   
 #82    Vladimir Bagirov      2607      #57 on October 1966 rating list      30y2m   
 #83    Yury Kots      2606      #45 on May 1963 rating list      29y5m   
 #84    Gedeon Barcza      2606      #48 on September 1963 rating list      52y1m   
 #85    Bernard Zuckerman      2602      #56 on July 1965 rating list      22y4m   
 #86    Karl Robatsch      2602      #48 on January 1962 rating list      33y3m   
 #87    Victor Ciocaltea      2601      #53 on December 1964 rating list      32y11m   
 #88    Salo Flohr      2600      #59 on January 1966 rating list      57y2m   
 #89    Anthony Saidy      2599      #60 on January 1964 rating list      26y8m   
 #90    Gideon Ståhlberg      2599      #60 on January 1966 rating list      58y0m   
 #91    B. Lebedev      2599      #61 on January 1964 rating list         -   
 #92    Igor Platonov      2599      #56 on March 1965 rating list      31y2m   
 #93    Abram Khasin      2598      #57 on February 1965 rating list      42y0m   
 #94    Viacheslav Osnos      2598      #64 on October 1966 rating list      31y3m   
 #95    Nikola Padevsky      2598      #64 on December 1966 rating list      33y7m   
 #96    Yury Gusev      2597      #63 on December 1965 rating list      44y3m   
 #97    Arthur Bisguier      2596      #53 on February 1963 rating list      33y4m   
 #98    Daniel Yanofsky      2596      #65 on January 1966 rating list      40y10m   
 #99    Albert Kapengut      2596      #64 on September 1966 rating list      22y2m   
 #100    Theodor Ghitescu      2595      #49 on October 1962 rating list      28y9m   
Strongest Tournament between 1962 and 1967 Summary only | Top 5 | Top 10 | Top 20 | Top 50 | Top 100
   Curacao (Candidates), 1962: Class 14 (#1, #3, #4, #5, #7, #8)
The strongest tournament held between 1962 and 1967 was Curacao (Candidates) 1962. This was a Class 14 tournament, including six of the top ten players in the world (from the May 1962 rating list). The next-strongest tournaments were Stockholm (Interzonal) 1962 (Class 11) and Tbilisi (URS Championship) 1966 (Class 10).
     Event       Class       Top Ten Participation    Specific participants from top ten on rating list
 #1    Curacao (Candidates), 1962      14      #1, #3, #4, #5, #7, #8    #1 Tigran Petrosian (2782), #3 Viktor Korchnoi (2769), #4 Mikhail Tal (2769), #5 Bobby Fischer (2761), #7 Paul Keres (2743), #8 Efim Geller (2741) from May 1962 rating list
 #2    Stockholm (Interzonal), 1962      11      #1, #2, #7, #8, #10    #1 Tigran Petrosian (2788), #2 Viktor Korchnoi (2777), #7 Bobby Fischer (2738), #8 Efim Geller (2738), #10 Svetozar Gligoric (2715) from January 1962 rating list
 #3    Tbilisi (URS Championship), 1966      10      #3, #4, #6, #8, #9    #3 Viktor Korchnoi (2755), #4 Leonid Stein (2753), #6 Lev Polugaevsky (2743), #8 Efim Geller (2734), #9 Vassily Smyslov (2732) from January 1966 rating list
 #4    Kislovodsk, 1966      8      #1, #4, #9    #1 Mikhail Tal (2761), #4 Leonid Stein (2754), #9 Efim Geller (2733) from July 1966 rating list
 #5    Tallinn (URS Championship), 1965      8      #1, #6, #9, #10    #1 Viktor Korchnoi (2776), #6 Leonid Stein (2741), #9 Lev Polugaevsky (2731), #10 Paul Keres (2730) from November 1965 rating list
 #6    Sochi (Chigorin Memorial), 1966      7      #2, #5, #8    #2 Boris Spassky (2761), #5 Viktor Korchnoi (2751), #8 Lev Polugaevsky (2734) from June 1966 rating list
 #7    Yerevan (URS Championship), 1962      7      #2, #6, #9    #2 Boris Spassky (2773), #6 Viktor Korchnoi (2756), #9 Mikhail Tal (2730) from November 1962 rating list
 #8    Havana (Capablanca Memorial), 1963      7      #3, #4, #9    #3 Efim Geller (2765), #4 Viktor Korchnoi (2759), #9 Mikhail Tal (2736) from August 1963 rating list
 #9    Santa Monica (Piatigorsky Cup), 1966      7      #3, #5, #6    #3 Boris Spassky (2757), #5 Bobby Fischer (2752), #6 Tigran Petrosian (2748) from July 1966 rating list
 #10    Moscow (Zonal), 1964      7      #4, #5, #6    #4 Efim Geller (2758), #5 Viktor Korchnoi (2749), #6 Boris Spassky (2749) from January 1964 rating list
 #11    Leningrad (URS Championship), 1963      7      #4, #5, #7, #9    #4 Viktor Korchnoi (2761), #5 Efim Geller (2760), #7 Boris Spassky (2746), #9 Lev Polugaevsky (2741) from November 1963 rating list
 #12    Los Angeles (Piatigorsky Cup), 1963      6      #1, #6    #1 Tigran Petrosian (2792), #6 Paul Keres (2755) from January 1963 rating list
 #13    Havana (Capablanca Memorial), 1965      6      #1, #7, #10    #1 Bobby Fischer (2774), #7 Vassily Smyslov (2744), #10 Efim Geller (2730) from January 1965 rating list
 #14    Kiev (URS Championship), 1964      6      #2, #8, #9    #2 Mikhail Tal (2765), #8 Viktor Korchnoi (2731), #9 Leonid Stein (2730) from December 1964 rating list
 #15    Yerevan, 1965      6      #3, #6, #9    #3 Tigran Petrosian (2762), #6 Viktor Korchnoi (2749), #9 Leonid Stein (2732) from January 1965 rating list
 #16    URS-JUG, 1965      6      #4, #6, #9    #4 Boris Spassky (2750), #6 Viktor Korchnoi (2749), #9 Leonid Stein (2732) from January 1965 rating list
 #17    Buenos Aires, 1964      5      #1, #7    #1 Tigran Petrosian (2788), #7 Paul Keres (2748) from January 1964 rating list
 #18    Leningrad, 1964      5      #4, #5    #4 Efim Geller (2758), #5 Viktor Korchnoi (2749), #6 Boris Spassky (2749), #10 Lev Polugaevsky (2738) from January 1964 rating list
 #19    New York (USA Championship), 1965      4      #1    #1 Bobby Fischer (2774) from January 1965 rating list
 #20    Amsterdam, 1963      4      #2    #2 Mikhail Botvinnik (2766) from December 1963 rating list
NOTE: "Class" is a Chessmetrics formula used to rank the strength of a tournament, by using the participation of top-10 players from the rating list (rather than just using the average rating of all participants). For more details, go here.
Strongest Match between 1962 and 1967 See more details
   Spassky-Tal Match (Candidates final, Tbilisi), 1965: #2 vs #3
The strongest match held between 1962 and 1967 was Spassky-Tal Match (Candidates final, Tbilisi), 1965. This was a matchup of #2 vs #3, including #2 Mikhail Tal (2773) and #3 Boris Spassky (2753) from the November 1965 rating list. Next on the list were Botvinnik-Petrosian Match (World Championship, Moscow), 1963 (#1 vs #7) and Petrosian-Spassky I (World Championship, Moscow), 1966 (#1 vs #8).
Best Individual Event Performance between 1962 and 1967 See more details
   Bobby Fischer: 2830 in New York (USA Championship), 1963
The best individual event performance between 1962 and 1967 was achieved by Bobby Fischer with a Chessmetrics Performance Rating of 2830 in New York (USA Championship), 1963. The next-best individual event performances were achieved by Tigran Petrosian (2829 performance) in Curacao (Candidates), 1962, and by Paul Keres (2825 performance) in Curacao (Candidates), 1962.