The Mikhail Chigorin Club is a symbolic club whose members have defeated one of the 16 official world chess champions during the time that champion held the title in any game with classic time controls in an official competition. Chigorin (1850-1908) was the first chess player to beat a world chess champion, William Steinitz, in 1889.

So far, the club members are:

01. Mikhail Chigorin – defeated Steinitz, Havana 1889
02. Isidor Gunsberg – defeated Steinitz, New York 1990
03. Curt von Bardeleben – defeated Lasker, Hastings 1895
04. Siegbert Tarrasch – defeated Lasker, Hastings 1895
05. Joseph Blackburne – defeated Lasker, Hastings 1895
06. Harry Pillsbury – defeated Lasker, St. Petersburg 1895
07. Dawid Janowski – defeated Lasker, Nuremberg 1896
08. Rudolf Charousek – defeated Lasker, Nuremberg 1896
09. Frank Marshall – defeated Lasker, Paris 1900
10. Carl Schlechter – defeated Lasker, Cambridge Springs 1904
11. Akiba Rubinstein – defeated Lasker, St. Petersburg 1909
12. Fedor Dus-Chotimirsky – defeated Lasker, St. Petersburg 1909
13. Ossip Bernsetin – defeated Lasker, St. Petersburg 1910
14. Richard Reti – defeated Capablanca, New York 1924
15. Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky, defeated Capablanca, Moscow 1925
16. Boris Verlinsky – defeated Capablanca, Moscow 1925
17. Efim Bogoljubov – defeated Alekhine, Weissbaden 1929
18.Herman Mattison – defeated Alekhine, Prague 1931
19. Oscar Negeli – defeated Alekhine, Bern 1932
20. Arthur Dake – defeated Alekhine, Pasadena 1932
21. Savielly Tartakower – defeated Alekhine, Folkestone 1933
22. Petrus van Horn – defeated Euwe, Leiden 1937
23. Andor Lilienthal – defeated Euwe, Stockholm 1937
24. Torsten Gauffin– defeated Euwe, Stockholm 1937
25. Vladimir Petrov – defeated Alekhine, Margate 1938
26. Reubin Fine – defeated Alekhine, Amsterdam 1938
27. Bjorn Nielsen – defeated Alekhine, Munich 1941
28. Karel Opochensky – defeated Alekhine, Munich 1941
29. Klaus Junge – defeated Alekhine, Saltzburg 1942
30. Ludwig Rellstab – defeated Alekhine, Munich 1942
31. Antonio Medina – defeated Alekhine, Gijon 1945
32. Arturo Bonet – defeated Alekhine, Gijon 1945
33. Lopez Nunez – defeated Alekhine, Almeria 1945
34. Francisco Lupi – defeated Alekhine, Caceres 1945
35. Paul Keres – defeated Botvinnik, Moscow 1948
36. David Bronstein – defeated Botvinnik, Moscow 1951
37. Nikolay Kopilov – defeated Botvinnik, Moscow 1951
38. Efim Geller – defeated Botvinnik, Budapest 1952
39. Jozsef Szily – defeated Botvinnik, Budapest 1952
40. Mark Taimanov – defeated Botvinnik, Moscow 1952
41. Samuel Reshevsky – defeated Botvinnik, Moscow 1955
42. Miroslav Filip – defeated Smyslov, Vienna 1957
43. Andreas Duckstein – defeated Botvinnik, Munich 1958
44. Jonathan Penrose – defeated Tal, Leningrad 1960
45. Wolfgang Unzicker – defeated Botvinnik, Oberhausen 1961
46. Wolfgang Uhlmann – defeated Botvinnik, Varna 1962
47. Svetozar Gligoric – defeated Petrosian, Los Angeles 1963
48. Viktor Korchnoi – defeated Petrosian, Moscow 1963
49. Vladimir Liberzon – defeated Petrosian , Moscow 1964
50. Lajos Portisch – defeated Petrosian, Zagreb 1966
51. Bent Larsen – defeated Petrosian, Santa Monica 1966
52. Anatoly Kudriashov – defeated Petrosian, Moscow 1967
53. Borislav Ivkov – defeated Petrosian, Palma de Mallorca 1968
54. Ulf Anderssen – defeated Karpov , Milan 1975
55. Eugenio Torre – defeated Karpov, Manila 1976
56. Alexander Beliavsky – defeated Karpov, Leningrad 1977
57. Jan Timman – defeated Karpov, Bugojno 1978
58. Igor Ivanov – defeated Karpov, Moscow 1979
59. Anthony Miles – defeated Karpov, Skara 1980
60. Yuri Balashov – defeated Karpov, Rostov-on-Don 1980
61. Zoltan Ribli – defeated Karpov, Amsterdam 1980
62. Fridrik Olafsson – defeated Karpov, Buenos Aires 1980
63. Vlastimil Hort – defeated Karpov, Amsterdam 1981
64. Palermo Garcia – defeated Karpov, Mar del Plata 1982
65. Yasser Seirawan – defeated Karpov, London 1982
66. Lubomir Ljubojevic– defeated Karpov, Turin 1982
67. Zurab Azmaiparashvili – defeated Karpov, Moscow 1983
68. Wolfram Hartmann – defeated Karpov, Hannover 1983
69. Nigel Short – defeated Kasparov, Brussels 1986
70. Andrei Sokolov – defeated Kasparov, Reykjavik 1988
71. Artur Yusupov – defeated Kasparov, Barcelona 1989
72. Boris Gulko – defeated Kasparov, Linares 1990
73. Vasily Ivanchuk – defeated Kasparov, Linares 1991
74. Robert Heubner – defeated Kasparov,Dortmund 1992
75. Gata Kamsky – defeated Kasparov, Dortmund 1992
76. Joel Lautier – defeated Kasparov, Linares 1994
77. Aleksandr Shneider – defeated Kasparov, Lyon 1994
78. Veselin Topalov – defeated Kasparov, Moscow 1994
79. Jereon Piket – defeated Kasparov, Amsterdam 1995
80. Peter Svidler – defeated Kasparov, Tilburg 1997
81. Ivan Sokolov – defeated Kasparov, Wijk aan Zee 1999
82. Alexander Morozevich – defeated Kramnik, Wijk aan Zee, 2001
83. Ruslin Ponomarev -defeated Kramnik, Wijk aan Zee 2003
84. Alexei Shirov – defeated Kramnik, Wijk aan Zee 2003
85. Loek Van Wely – defeated Kramnik, Wijk aan Zee 2003
86. Vladimir Akopian – defeated Kramnik, Wijk aan Zee 2004
87. Michael Adams – defeated Kramnik, Wijk aan Zee 2004
88. Peter Leko – defeated Kramnik, Brissago 2004
89. Etienne Bacrot – defeated Kramnik, Dortmund 2005
90. Emil Sutovsky – defeated Kramnik, Dortmund 2005
91. Evgeny Bareev – defeated Kramnik, Moscow 2005
92. Teimour Radjabov – defeated Anand, Wijk aan Zee 2008
93. Levon Aronian – defeated Anand, Linares 2008
94. Hikaru Nakamura – defeated Anand, London 2011
95. Sergei Tiviakov – defeated Anand, Hamburg 2012
96. Boris Gelfand – defeated Anand, Moscow 2012
97. Wang Hao – defeated Anand, Wijk aan Zee 2013
98. Fabiano Caruana – defeated Anand, Zurich 2013
99. Arkadij Naidijtsch – defeated Carlsen, Tromso 2014
100. Ivan Saric – defeated Carlsen, Tromso 2014

Chigorin was the most successful in defeated world champions. He defeated Steinitz 14 times and Lasker once.

Topalov has won 9 games from world champions – 2 from Kasparov, 4 from Kramnik, and 3 from Anand.

Kamsky is the youngest to beat a world champion, at age 17.

Liberzon has the quickest win – Petrosian resigned after 15 moves.

Liberzon – Petrosian, Moscow 1964
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 Ne7 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5
7. Qg4 Ng6 8. h4 h5 9. Qg3 Qa5 10. Bd2 Nc6 11. Bd3 Nce7
12. dxc5 Qxc5 13. Nf3 Bd7 14. O-O Bb5 15. Be3 1-0

– Bill Wall