Ahakoa kua maha nga kaitakaro nui i roto i te hītori o te tinihanga, he iti noa iho te hunga kua whakahonorehia ki te mau i te taitara o te Champion of Chess.
I timata te ariā o te toa toa o te ao ki te puta i te haurua tuatahi o te rautau 19, a, i te tau 1845, i puta mai te kupu "toa a te ao" i te tau 1845. Mai i taua wa, he maha nga rangatira o te kaitohu i kii i te taitara, i te mana me te kore , engari mo te kaupapa o tenei tuhinga, ka whakahuatia anake ko nga mea kua mohiotia hei World Chess Champions.
Engari, he mea nui ano hoki te mahara he maha nga toa toa i mua i te tau 1886 i te wa tuatahi i puta ai te Tohu Nui o te Ao, pēnei ia Paul Morphy.
World Chess Championship
Ko te World Chess Championship (i etahi wa ka whakakorehia te WCC) ka takahia ki te whakatau i te Tohu o te Ao i te rakau, a, tae noa ki te tau 1948 ka whakataetaehia nga whakataetae a te ao ki te taha o nga kaitakaro i te wa e whakaatu ai te toa i nga tikanga, me kii i tetahi kaiwhiwhi ki te whakaara i tetahi mahinga iti me te hinga i te he toa hei tohu i te taitara.
Mai i te 1948 ki te 1993, i whakahaerehia te whakataetae e te World Chess Federation (FIDE), engari i te tau 1993, ka mawehe atu a Garry Kasparov i te FIDE, na te mea i hangaia te whakataetae PCA whawhai. I whakakotahi nga taitara i te World Chess Championship 2006.
Ko te toa o te ao nei ko Magnus Carlsen i toa i te World Chess Championship 2013 ki a Viswanathan Anand, a ko tana taitara ki a Anand i te Ao Chess Championship 2014 me Sergey Karjakin i te tau 2016; Kua whakaritea a Carlsen ki te tiaki i tana taitara i te World Chess Championship i Maehe o te tau 2018.
Ko etahi atu kaupapa motuhake me nga taitara ko te Women's World Chess Championship, ko te World Junior Chess Championship (mo nga kaitakaro kei raro iho i te 20 tau), ko te Tohu Nui o te Ao Nui (mo nga tane kei runga i te 60 tau, me nga wahine i runga i te 50), me te Ao Rorohiko Chess Championship, koinei anake te kaupapa e uru ai nga rorohiko.
Classical World Chess Champions
Ko te raupapa o te World Chess Champions i timata me te hinga a Wilhelm Steinitz o Johannes Zukertort i te tau 1886. Mai i taua wa, kua kaha te tautohetohe a te World Championship i tetahi taatau i waenganui i te toa o naianei me te kaitono, ahakoa kua whakamahia nga whakataetae mo etahi take.
- Wilhelm Steinitz (1886-1894)
- Emanuel Lasker (1894-1921)
- Jose Raul Capablanca (1921-1927)
- Alexander Alekhine (1927-1935, 1937-1946)
- Max Euwe (1935-1937)
- Mikhail Botvinnik (1948-1957, 1958-1960, 1961-1963)
- Vasily Smyslov (1957-1958)
- Mikhail Tal (1960-1961)
- Tigran Petrosian (1963-1969)
- Boris Spassky (1969-1972)
- Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (1972-1975)
- Anatoly Karpov (1975-1985)
- Garry Kasparov (1985-2000)
- Vladimir Kramnik (2000-2007)
- Viswanathan Anand (2007-2013)
- Magnus Carlsen (2013-o nāianei)
FIDE World Chess Champions
I te wa i wehe a Garry Kasparov ki te World Chess Federation (FIDE) me te whakarite i te 1993 Championship World ki a Nigel Short, i whakaae a FIDE kei te whakahaere tonu ratou i te taitara o te ao me te whakarite i o ratou ake whakataetae. Ahakoa ko te taitara FIDE i kawe i te mana o te ao o te Ao Karapu, he mea nui tonu te mohio o enei kaitito mo o ratou panga o mua ki te whakataetae.
- Anatoly Karpov (1993-1999)
- Alexander Khalifman (1999-2000)
- Viswanathan Anand (2000-2002)
- Ruslan Ponomariov (2002-2004)
- Rustam Kasimdzhanov (2004-2005)
- Veselin Topalov (2005-2006)
I te tau 2006, i whakauruhia nga taitara e rua i te wa i hinga ai a Vladimir Kramnik i te Pakihi o te Ao a Veselin Topalov i roto i tetahi hokinga whakatikatika.