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Top-level chess is getting younger and younger. Viswanathan Anand has been quoted saying that "now if you are not a grandmaster by 14, you can forget about it". Nonetheless, numbers are always more convincing than general statements. Let's take a look at the table which sorts the World Chess Champions by age at which they won the title. The second number is the year when a person became the World Champion:
Steinitz 50, 1886
Botvinnik 37, 1948
Smyslov 36, 1957
Alekhine 35, 1927
Euwe 34, 1935
Petrosian 34, 1963
Capablanca 33, 1921
Khalifman 33, 1999
Spassky 32, 1969
Anand 31, 2000
Topalov 30, 2005
Fischer 29, 1972
Lasker 26, 1894
Kramnik 25, 2000
Kazimdzhanov 25, 2004
Karpov 24, 1975
Tal 23, 1960
Kasparov 22, 1985
Ponomariov 18, 2002
Steinitz is the only world champion who won the title after 37. In fact, this result can be ignored since this was connected to lack of the title itself. In fact, he could have as well been declared the world champion after winning a match against Anderssen at age 30.
10 out of 19 World Champions won the title at age 30-37, so, statistically speaking, this is the most favorable life period for a person to become a World Chess Champion.
For women the picture is completely different:
Rubtsova 47, 1956
Rudenko 46, 1950
Bykova 40, 1953
Xu Yuhua 30, 2006
Polgar - 27, 1996
Zhu Chen 25, 2001
Stefanova 25, 2004
Kosteniuk 24, 2008
Xie Jun 21, 1991
Menchik 21, 1927
Gaprindashvili 20, 1961
Chiburdanidze 17, 1978
Hou Yifan 16, 2010
Obviously, 7 out of 13 Women's World Champions peaked between 20 and 27, exactly 10 year earlier than men!
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on 10:28 12 2011 .
Maybe women dont have that much time for chess after becoming mums and thats why they usually must achieve that before having children?
