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Championships

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  1. Championship World Chess Championship 1960

    The Magician from Riga takes the throne at 23 — Mikhail Tal becomes the youngest world champion to date, defeating Mikhail Botvinnik in Moscow.
  2. Championship World Chess Championship 1969

    Boris Spassky takes the title from Tigran Petrosian in their second consecutive championship match — the rematch in Moscow, decided by a single game.
  3. Championship World Chess Championship 1984

    The match that was never finished — Karpov–Kasparov 1984/85 ran for five months and 48 games before FIDE terminated it without a winner.
  4. Championship World Chess Championship 1985

    Garry Kasparov becomes the 13th world chess champion at 22 — the youngest ever, defeating Anatoly Karpov in the rematch decided by Game 24.