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Most Dominant Player between 1943 and 1948 See more details
   Mikhail Botvinnik: 3.5 years as #1 (between June 1944 and December 1947)
The player who was ranked #1 most often between 1943 and 1948 was Mikhail Botvinnik, with 42 different months as the top-ranked player (a total of 3.5 years). Next on the list were Alexander Alekhine (1.3 years) and Samuel Reshevsky (0.3 years).
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   Mikhail Botvinnik: 2885 (October 1945)
The player who achieved the highest peak rating between 1943 and 1948 was Mikhail Botvinnik, with a rating of 2885 on the October 1945 list. The next-highest peak ratings between 1943 and 1948 were achieved by Alexander Alekhine (2807 on the July 1944 list) and Miguel Najdorf (2792 on the November 1947 list).
     Player Name       Peak Rating       World Rank (at time of Peak Rating)       Age (at time of Peak Rating)   
 #1    Mikhail Botvinnik      2885      #1 on October 1945 rating list      34y2m   
 #2    Alexander Alekhine      2807      #1 on July 1944 rating list      51y9m   
 #3    Miguel Najdorf      2792      #2 on November 1947 rating list      37y7m   
 #4    Paul Keres      2786      #2 on March 1947 rating list      31y2m   
 #5    Samuel Reshevsky      2769      #1 on January 1943 rating list      31y2m   
 #6    Max Euwe      2763      #3 on December 1946 rating list      45y7m   
 #7    Vassily Smyslov      2751      #5 on January 1946 rating list      24y10m   
 #8    Gideon Stĺhlberg      2750      #4 on December 1947 rating list      39y11m   
 #9    Isaak Boleslavsky      2747      #6 on February 1946 rating list      26y8m   
 #10    Vladimir Makogonov      2735      #7 on October 1945 rating list      41y2m   
 #11    László Szabó      2726      #6 on December 1946 rating list      29y9m   
 #12    David Bronstein      2723      #8 on October 1947 rating list      23y8m   
 #13    Alexander Kotov      2714      #9 on December 1947 rating list      34y4m   
 #14    Folke Ekström      2714      #10 on January 1947 rating list      40y3m   
 #15    Erich Eliskases      2703      #10 on December 1947 rating list      34y10m   
 #16    Saviely Tartakower      2702      #11 on June 1947 rating list      60y4m   
 #17    Petar Trifunovic      2700      #12 on November 1947 rating list      37y3m   
 #18    Viacheslav Ragozin      2699      #11 on August 1946 rating list      37y10m   
 #19    Paul Schmidt      2696      #9 on December 1943 rating list      27y4m   
 #20    Svetozar Gligoric      2695      #13 on November 1947 rating list      24y9m   
 #21    Reuben Fine      2692      #10 on August 1945 rating list      30y10m   
 #22    Salo Flohr      2689      #15 on September 1946 rating list      37y10m   
 #23    Al Horowitz      2680      #10 on January 1943 rating list      35y2m   
 #24    Andor Lilienthal      2679      #11 on January 1943 rating list      31y8m   
 #25    Efim Bogoljubow      2675      #10 on February 1944 rating list      54y10m   
 #26    Alexander Tolush      2672      #10 on January 1945 rating list      34y8m   
 #27    Gösta Stoltz      2670      #18 on October 1946 rating list      42y5m   
 #28    Herman Pilnik      2670      #13 on August 1945 rating list      31y7m   
 #29    Alexander Konstantinopolsky      2669      #11 on July 1945 rating list      35y5m   
 #30    Igor Bondarevsky      2669      #14 on February 1943 rating list      29y9m   
 #31    Vladas Mikenas      2669      #14 on December 1945 rating list      35y8m   
 #32    Pablo Michel      2664      #18 on January 1946 rating list      40y1m   
 #33    Erik Lundin      2661      #20 on October 1946 rating list      42y3m   
 #34    Ilia Kan      2656      #15 on June 1945 rating list      36y1m   
 #35    Nikolay Novotelnov      2654      #20 on December 1947 rating list      36y0m   
 #36    Jan Foltys      2653      #20 on November 1947 rating list      39y1m   
 #37    Klaus Junge      2653      #14 on July 1944 rating list      20y6m   
 #38    Kurt Richter      2652      #16 on December 1943 rating list      43y1m   
 #39    Miroslav Katetov      2649      #16 on July 1944 rating list      26y4m   
 #40    Julio Bolbochán      2647      #17 on January 1945 rating list      24y10m   
 #41    Georgy Lisitsin      2646      #22 on November 1947 rating list      38y1m   
 #42    Vasily Panov      2646      #22 on December 1947 rating list      41y1m   
 #43    František Zíta      2644      #21 on August 1944 rating list      34y9m   
 #44    Vladimir Simagin      2644      #23 on August 1946 rating list      27y2m   
 #45    Alexey Sokolsky      2639      #18 on April 1945 rating list      36y6m   
 #46    Carlos Guimard      2639      #21 on January 1946 rating list      32y9m   
 #47    Iosif Rudakovsky      2637      #23 on December 1945 rating list      31y11m   
 #48    Isaac Kashdan      2632      #26 on January 1947 rating list      41y2m   
 #49    Gavriil Veresov      2631      #24 on July 1945 rating list      33y0m   
 #50    Georg Kieninger      2628      #29 on November 1947 rating list      45y5m   
 #51    Vladimirs Petrovs      2626      #22 on January 1943 rating list      35y4m   
 #52    Arnold Denker      2626      #27 on January 1947 rating list      32y11m   
 #53    Paulin Frydman      2622      #24 on January 1943 rating list      37y8m   
 #54    Eero Böök      2622      #30 on December 1947 rating list      37y10m   
 #55    Genrikh Kasparian      2621      #31 on December 1947 rating list      37y10m   
 #56    Jorge Pelikán      2620      #29 on January 1946 rating list      39y9m   
 #57    Vitaly Chekhover      2619      #28 on December 1945 rating list      37y0m   
 #58    Daniel Yanofsky      2618      #31 on December 1946 rating list      21y9m   
 #59    Ludwig Rödl      2616      #32 on September 1947 rating list      40y5m   
 #60    Tigran Petrosian      2613      #35 on July 1947 rating list      18y1m   
 #61    Héctor Rossetto      2612      #34 on August 1945 rating list      22y11m   
 #62    Evgeny Zagoriansky      2611      #32 on July 1945 rating list      34y11m   
 #63    Ludwig Engels      2610      #27 on January 1943 rating list      37y1m   
 #64    Vladimir Alatortsev      2609      #37 on October 1946 rating list      37y5m   
 #65    Vasja Pirc      2609      #36 on November 1947 rating list      39y11m   
 #66    Antonio Medina García      2608      #35 on April 1946 rating list      26y6m   
 #67    Ludek Pachmann      2607      #36 on December 1947 rating list      23y7m   
 #68    Borislav Milic      2607      #34 on January 1946 rating list      20y3m   
 #69    Abram Khavin      2604      #37 on February 1946 rating list      32y1m   
 #70    Arnoldus van den Hoek      2604      #30 on July 1944 rating list      22y7m   
 #71    Vasilje Tomovic      2603      #40 on August 1946 rating list      40y3m   
 #72    Mark Taimanov      2602      #41 on November 1947 rating list      21y9m   
 #73    Grigory Ravinsky      2602      #41 on December 1947 rating list      38y2m   
 #74    Jacob Levin      2602      #39 on January 1947 rating list      42y11m   
 #75    Peter Romanovsky      2599      #41 on July 1946 rating list      54y0m   
 #76    Emil Richter      2598      #33 on December 1943 rating list      49y11m   
 #77    Conel Alexander      2598      #41 on January 1947 rating list      37y9m   
 #78    Robert Combe      2596      #43 on January 1947 rating list         -   
 #79    Wolfgang Unzicker      2596      #42 on February 1946 rating list      20y8m   
 #80    Jácobo Bolbochán      2596      #42 on January 1946 rating list      39y1m   
 #81    Gerald Abrahams      2592      #45 on December 1946 rating list      39y8m   
 #82    Grigory Levenfish      2591      #46 on May 1947 rating list      58y2m   
 #83    Ossip Bernstein      2591      #45 on October 1946 rating list      64y0m   
 #84    Carlos Maderna      2591      #45 on January 1946 rating list      35y5m   
 #85    A Vasiljev      2590      #48 on November 1947 rating list         -   
 #86    Lev Aronin      2588      #50 on December 1947 rating list      27y5m   
 #87    Hans Müller      2588      #34 on December 1943 rating list      47y0m   
 #88    Gedeon Barcza      2586      #36 on December 1943 rating list      32y4m   
 #89    Vladimir Zagorovsky      2586      #50 on October 1947 rating list      22y4m   
 #90    Yury Averbakh      2585      #52 on December 1947 rating list      25y10m   
 #91    Cenek Kottnauer      2583      #50 on September 1946 rating list      36y7m   
 #92    Milan Jr Vidmar      2582      #51 on November 1947 rating list      37y11m   
 #93    Albéric O'Kelly de Galway      2582      #54 on December 1947 rating list      36y7m   
 #94    Herman Steiner      2580      #49 on January 1946 rating list      40y9m   
 #95    Albert Pinkus      2580      #39 on January 1943 rating list      39y10m   
 #96    Karel Hromádka      2577      #35 on January 1944 rating list      56y9m   
 #97    Friedrich Sämisch      2573      #54 on February 1946 rating list      49y5m   
 #98    Anatoly Ufimtsev      2573      #59 on December 1947 rating list      33y7m   
 #99    Ludwig Rellstab Sr      2571      #44 on August 1944 rating list      39y9m   
 #100    Miguel Crues Albareda      2571      #56 on December 1946 rating list         -   
Strongest Tournament between 1943 and 1948 Summary only | Top 5 | Top 10 | Top 20 | Top 50 | Top 100
   Groningen (Staunton Memorial), 1946: Class 14 (#1, #2, #4, #5, #10)
The strongest tournament held between 1943 and 1948 was Groningen (Staunton Memorial) 1946. This was a Class 14 tournament, including five of the top ten players in the world (from the August 1946 rating list). The next-strongest tournaments were Moscow (Chigorin Memorial) 1947 (Class 11) and Salzburg 1943 (Class 8).
     Event       Class       Top Ten Participation    Specific participants from top ten on rating list
 #1    Groningen (Staunton Memorial), 1946      14      #1, #2, #4, #5, #10    #1 Mikhail Botvinnik (2864), #2 Miguel Najdorf (2767), #4 Isaak Boleslavsky (2738), #5 Vassily Smyslov (2732), #10 Alexander Kotov (2704) from August 1946 rating list
 #2    Moscow (Chigorin Memorial), 1947      11      #1, #3, #5, #7, #10    #1 Mikhail Botvinnik (2823), #3 Paul Keres (2776), #5 Isaak Boleslavsky (2739), #7 Vassily Smyslov (2725), #10 Alexander Kotov (2702) from November 1947 rating list
 #3    Salzburg, 1943      8      #1, #4, #10    #1 Alexander Alekhine (2765), #4 Paul Keres (2742), #10 Paul Schmidt (2691) from June 1943 rating list
 #4    Moscow (URS Championship), 1945      8      #1, #5, #8, #10    #1 Mikhail Botvinnik (2817), #5 Vassily Smyslov (2749), #8 Isaak Boleslavsky (2689), #9 Salo Flohr (2678), #10 Alexander Tolush (2669) from June 1945 rating list
 #5    Leningrad (URS Championship), 1947      8      #4, #5, #6, #7    #4 Paul Keres (2746), #5 Vassily Smyslov (2729), #6 David Bronstein (2719), #7 Isaak Boleslavsky (2718) from February 1947 rating list
 #6    Mar del Plata, 1947      7      #2, #3    #2 Miguel Najdorf (2772), #3 Max Euwe (2762) from January 1947 rating list
 #7    Buenos Aires/La Plata, 1947      7      #2, #3    #2 Miguel Najdorf (2772), #3 Max Euwe (2762) from January 1947 rating list
 #8    Moscow (URS Championship), 1944      7      #2, #6, #7    #2 Mikhail Botvinnik (2785), #6 Vladimir Makogonov (2731), #7 Vassily Smyslov (2725) from January 1944 rating list
 #9    Parnu, 1947      7      #4, #5, #7, #9    #4 Paul Keres (2749), #5 Vassily Smyslov (2731), #7 David Bronstein (2719), #9 Isaak Boleslavsky (2718) from January 1947 rating list
 #10    Prague, 1943      6      #2, #5    #2 Alexander Alekhine (2760), #5 Paul Keres (2729) from January 1943 rating list
NOTE: "Class" is a Chessmetrics formula used to rank the strength of a tournament, by using the participation of top-10 players from the rating list (rather than just using the average rating of all participants). For more details, go here.
Strongest Match between 1943 and 1948 See more details
   Bondarevsky-Ragozin Match (Moscow), 1946: #16 vs #28
The strongest match held between 1943 and 1948 was Bondarevsky-Ragozin Match (Moscow), 1946. This was a matchup of #16 vs #28, including #16 Viacheslav Ragozin (2666) and #28 Igor Bondarevsky (2626) from the January 1946 rating list. Next on the list were Pilnik-Rossetto Match (Bahia Blanca), 1946 (#17 vs #33) and Iliesco-Rossetto Match (Nueve de Julio), 1944 (#38 vs #84).
Best Individual Event Performance between 1943 and 1948 See more details
   Mikhail Botvinnik: 2819 in Moscow (URS Championship), 1945
The best individual event performance between 1943 and 1948 was achieved by Mikhail Botvinnik with a Chessmetrics Performance Rating of 2819 in Moscow (URS Championship), 1945. The next-best individual event performances were achieved by Gideon Stĺhlberg (2817 performance) in Buenos Aires/La Plata, 1947, and by Mikhail Botvinnik (2801 performance) in Moscow (URS Championship), 1944.