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Most Dominant Player between 1965 and 1966 See more details
   Mikhail Tal: 0.4 years as #1 (between April 1965 and August 1965)
The player who was ranked #1 most often between 1965 and 1966 was Mikhail Tal, with 5 different months as the top-ranked player. Next on the list were Viktor Korchnoi (4 months) and Bobby Fischer (3 months).
Highest-Rated Player between 1965 and 1966 Summary only | Top 5 | Top 10 | Top 20 | Top 50 | Top 100
   Viktor Korchnoi: 2776 (November 1965)
The player who achieved the highest peak rating between 1965 and 1966 was Viktor Korchnoi, with a rating of 2776 on the November 1965 list. The next-highest peak ratings between 1965 and 1966 were achieved by Bobby Fischer (2774 on the January 1965 list) and Mikhail Tal (2773 on the November 1965 list).
     Player Name       Peak Rating       World Rank (at time of Peak Rating)       Age (at time of Peak Rating)   
 #1    Viktor Korchnoi      2776      #1 on November 1965 rating list      34y8m   
 #2    Bobby Fischer      2774      #1 on January 1965 rating list      21y10m   
 #3    Mikhail Tal      2773      #2 on November 1965 rating list      29y0m   
 #4    Boris Spassky      2765      #2 on December 1965 rating list      28y11m   
 #5    Tigran Petrosian      2762      #3 on January 1965 rating list      35y7m   
 #6    Mikhail Botvinnik      2749      #5 on January 1965 rating list      53y5m   
 #7    Vassily Smyslov      2744      #7 on January 1965 rating list      43y10m   
 #8    Leonid Stein      2741      #6 on November 1965 rating list      31y0m   
 #9    Lev Polugaevsky      2740      #6 on December 1965 rating list      31y1m   
 #10    Paul Keres      2739      #7 on December 1965 rating list      49y11m   
 #11    Efim Geller      2737      #8 on September 1965 rating list      40y6m   
 #12    Miguel Najdorf      2721      #12 on December 1965 rating list      55y8m   
 #13    David Bronstein      2718      #12 on February 1965 rating list      41y0m   
 #14    Lajos Portisch      2707      #13 on May 1965 rating list      28y1m   
 #15    Bent Larsen      2703      #15 on October 1965 rating list      30y7m   
 #16    Borislav Ivkov      2701      #15 on August 1965 rating list      31y9m   
 #17    Svetozar Gligoric      2696      #15 on February 1965 rating list      42y0m   
 #18    Mark Taimanov      2684      #17 on November 1965 rating list      39y9m   
 #19    Raúl Sanguinetti      2677      #18 on January 1965 rating list      31y11m   
 #20    Isaak Boleslavsky      2677      #19 on July 1965 rating list      46y1m   
 #21    Wolfgang Uhlmann      2675      #19 on November 1965 rating list      30y8m   
 #22    Leonid Shamkovich      2671      #20 on December 1965 rating list      42y6m   
 #23    Samuel Reshevsky      2670      #20 on November 1965 rating list      54y0m   
 #24    Ratmir Kholmov      2669      #21 on December 1965 rating list      40y7m   
 #25    Anatoly Lutikov      2663      #23 on May 1965 rating list      32y3m   
 #26    Iivo Nei      2658      #23 on January 1965 rating list      33y3m   
 #27    Alexey Suetin      2658      #25 on December 1965 rating list      39y1m   
 #28    Aivars Gipslis      2656      #25 on January 1965 rating list      27y11m   
 #29    Wolfgang Unzicker      2655      #26 on December 1965 rating list      40y6m   
 #30    Vladimir Antoshin      2647      #27 on January 1965 rating list      35y8m   
 #31    Fridrik Olafsson      2647      #28 on February 1965 rating list      30y1m   
 #32    Yury Averbakh      2646      #28 on December 1965 rating list      43y10m   
 #33    Nikolay Krogius      2644      #29 on December 1965 rating list      35y5m   
 #34    Pal Benko      2643      #27 on May 1965 rating list      36y10m   
 #35    Evgeny Vasiukov      2643      #30 on January 1965 rating list      31y10m   
 #36    Ludek Pachmann      2643      #30 on December 1965 rating list      41y7m   
 #37    Rashid Nezhmetdinov      2637      #33 on January 1965 rating list      52y1m   
 #38    Anatoly Lein      2637      #33 on December 1965 rating list      34y9m   
 #39    László Szabó      2633      #34 on September 1965 rating list      48y6m   
 #40    Boris Vladimirov      2632      #34 on January 1965 rating list      35y8m   
 #41    Vlastimil Hort      2632      #35 on December 1965 rating list      21y11m   
 #42    Bruno Parma      2631      #36 on December 1965 rating list      24y0m   
 #43    Roman Dzindzichashvili      2630      #38 on December 1965 rating list      21y7m   
 #44    Robert Byrne      2628      #39 on December 1965 rating list      37y8m   
 #45    Levente Lengyel      2627      #36 on January 1965 rating list      31y7m   
 #46    Klaus Darga      2625      #38 on November 1965 rating list      31y9m   
 #47    Oscar Panno      2624      #40 on November 1965 rating list      30y8m   
 #48    Eduard Gufeld      2624      #41 on November 1965 rating list      29y8m   
 #49    Milan Matulovic      2623      #41 on December 1965 rating list      30y6m   
 #50    Florin Gheorghiu      2623      #42 on November 1965 rating list      21y7m   
 #51    Vladimir Liberzon      2621      #42 on December 1965 rating list      28y9m   
 #52    Johannes Donner      2619      #45 on November 1965 rating list      38y4m   
 #53    Lothar Schmid      2619      #42 on September 1965 rating list      37y4m   
 #54    Vladimir Simagin      2619      #47 on December 1965 rating list      46y6m   
 #55    Larry Evans      2618      #44 on January 1965 rating list      32y10m   
 #56    Julio Bolbochán      2618      #48 on December 1965 rating list      45y9m   
 #57    Helmut Pfleger      2617      #46 on August 1965 rating list      22y0m   
 #58    Aleksandar Matanovic      2615      #45 on January 1965 rating list      34y8m   
 #59    Arturo Pomar Salamanca      2613      #46 on January 1965 rating list      33y4m   
 #60    Bukhuti Gurgenidze      2612      #52 on December 1965 rating list      32y1m   
 #61    Alexander Zaitsev      2611      #54 on December 1965 rating list      30y6m   
 #62    Alexander Kotov      2607      #47 on January 1965 rating list      51y5m   
 #63    Vladimir Bagirov      2605      #48 on January 1965 rating list      28y5m   
 #64    Wolfgang Pietzsch      2603      #58 on December 1965 rating list      35y0m   
 #65    Miroslav Filip      2603      #51 on January 1965 rating list      36y3m   
 #66    Bernard Zuckerman      2602      #56 on July 1965 rating list      22y4m   
 #67    Gedeon Barcza      2600      #61 on November 1965 rating list      54y3m   
 #68    Victor Ciocaltea      2600      #52 on January 1965 rating list      33y0m   
 #69    Salo Flohr      2599      #61 on December 1965 rating list      57y1m   
 #70    Igor Platonov      2599      #56 on March 1965 rating list      31y2m   
 #71    Abram Khasin      2598      #57 on February 1965 rating list      42y0m   
 #72    Yury Gusev      2597      #63 on December 1965 rating list      44y3m   
 #73    Herman Pilnik      2596      #57 on January 1965 rating list      51y0m   
 #74    Andor Lilienthal      2594      #66 on December 1965 rating list      54y7m   
 #75    Petar Trifunovic      2594      #61 on February 1965 rating list      54y6m   
 #76    Dragoljub Ciric      2594      #67 on December 1965 rating list      30y1m   
 #77    Milko Bobotsov      2593      #64 on February 1965 rating list      33y5m   
 #78    István Bilek      2593      #68 on December 1965 rating list      33y4m   
 #79    Georgy Tringov      2592      #63 on April 1965 rating list      28y1m   
 #80    Daniel Yanofsky      2592      #68 on November 1965 rating list      40y8m   
 #81    Yury Kots      2592      #66 on March 1965 rating list      31y3m   
 #82    Nikola Padevsky      2589      #69 on February 1965 rating list      31y9m   
 #83    Gideon Stĺhlberg      2588      #72 on December 1965 rating list      57y11m   
 #84    Naum Levin      2587      #71 on January 1965 rating list      31y11m   
 #85    Anatoly Bannik      2586      #74 on June 1965 rating list      43y6m   
 #86    Dragoljub Janoševic      2584      #72 on March 1965 rating list      41y8m   
 #87    Lubomir Kavalek      2583      #79 on December 1965 rating list      22y4m   
 #88    Aleksandar Bradvarevic      2583      #78 on October 1965 rating list      32y3m   
 #89    Jonathan Penrose      2581      #75 on March 1965 rating list      31y5m   
 #90    Dragoljub Minic      2581      #73 on January 1965 rating list      27y10m   
 #91    Peter Dely      2581      #75 on January 1965 rating list      30y6m   
 #92    Lev Aronin      2580      #76 on January 1965 rating list      44y6m   
 #93    Dražen Marovic      2579      #82 on December 1965 rating list      27y11m   
 #94    Erich Eliskases      2577      #82 on November 1965 rating list      52y9m   
 #95    Karoly Honfi      2576      #83 on November 1965 rating list      35y1m   
 #96    Heinz Lehmann      2575      #83 on February 1965 rating list      43y4m   
 #97    Raimundo Garcia      2575      #84 on November 1965 rating list      29y6m   
 #98    Georgy Ilivitsky      2574      #84 on October 1965 rating list      44y6m   
 #99    Vladislav Shianovsky      2573      #86 on November 1965 rating list      35y11m   
 #100    Alexander Zakharov      2571      #91 on December 1965 rating list      22y2m   
Strongest Tournament between 1965 and 1966 Summary only | Top 5 | Top 10 | Top 20 | Top 50 | Top 100
   Tallinn (URS Championship), 1965: Class 8 (#1, #6, #9, #10)
The strongest tournament held between 1965 and 1966 was Tallinn (URS Championship) 1965. This was a Class 8 tournament, including four of the top ten players in the world (from the November 1965 rating list). The next-strongest tournaments were Havana (Capablanca Memorial) 1965 (Class 6) and Yerevan 1965 (Class 6).
     Event       Class       Top Ten Participation    Specific participants from top ten on rating list
 #1    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
 #2    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
 #3    Yerevan, 1965      6      #3, #6, #9    #3 Tigran Petrosian (2762), #6 Viktor Korchnoi (2749), #9 Leonid Stein (2732) from January 1965 rating list
 #4    URS-JUG, 1965      6      #4, #6, #9    #4 Boris Spassky (2750), #6 Viktor Korchnoi (2749), #9 Leonid Stein (2732) from January 1965 rating list
 #5    New York (USA Championship), 1965      4      #1    #1 Bobby Fischer (2774) from January 1965 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 1965 and 1966 See more details
   Spassky-Tal Match (Candidates final, Tbilisi), 1965: #2 vs #3
The strongest match held between 1965 and 1966 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 Keres-Spassky Match (Candidates quarterfinal, Riga), 1965 (#4 vs #8) and Geller-Spassky I (Candidates semifinal, Riga), 1965 (#4 vs #10).
Best Individual Event Performance between 1965 and 1966 See more details
   Boris Spassky: 2808 in Spassky-Tal Match (Candidates final, Tbilisi), 1965
The best individual event performance between 1965 and 1966 was achieved by Boris Spassky with a Chessmetrics Performance Rating of 2808 in Spassky-Tal Match (Candidates final, Tbilisi), 1965. The next-best individual event performances were achieved by Efim Geller (2783 performance) in Geller-Smyslov Match (Candidates quarterfinal, Moscow), 1965, and by Boris Spassky (2772 performance) in Geller-Spassky I (Candidates semifinal, Riga), 1965.