World Chess Champions By sesutton2 Period: 1886 to 1894 Wilhelm Steinitz 1st official world chamption Period: 1894 to 1921 Emmanuel Lasker http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=19149 Period: 1972 to 1975 Bobby Fischer American chess prodigy and world champion from 1972-1975. Sep 1, 1972 Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky See (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1972) Period: 1985 to 1993 Garry Kasparov Period: 2013 to 2018 Magnus Carlsen Current world champion (https://magnuscarlsen.com/)
