List of World Chess Champions

Quality:

List of World Chess Champions - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of World Chess Champions” in Simple English Wikipedia has 37.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is Russian.

Since the creation of article “List of World Chess Champions”, its content was written by 45 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3172^nd place) and edited by 323 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 130 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 868 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #26 in December 2024
• Global: #4764 in December 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #19 in November 2013
• Global: #10151 in April 2023

There are 10 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Simple English (simple) List of World Chess Champions		37.4619
2	Russian (ru) Чемпионы мира по шахматам		36.215
3	Ukrainian (uk) Чемпіони світу із шахів		34.9396
4	Kazakh (kk) Шахматтан әлем чемпиондары		33.5327
5	Belarusian (be) Чэмпіёны свету па шахматах		31.4548
6	Azerbaijani (az) Şahmat üzrə dünya çempionlarının siyahısı		23.4143
7	Hebrew (he) אלופי העולם בשחמט		9.7584
8	Esperanto (eo) Listo de mondĉampionoj pri ŝako		6.9586
9	Romanian (ro) Lista campionilor mondiali la șah		2.7387
10	Georgian (ka) ჭადრაკის მსოფლიო ჩემპიონები		0.9674

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Чемпионы мира по шахматам		4 081 725
2	Simple English (simple) List of World Chess Champions		875 103
3	Hebrew (he) אלופי העולם בשחמט		214 621
4	Ukrainian (uk) Чемпіони світу із шахів		81 203
5	Romanian (ro) Lista campionilor mondiali la șah		57 345
6	Georgian (ka) ჭადრაკის მსოფლიო ჩემპიონები		31 505
7	Azerbaijani (az) Şahmat üzrə dünya çempionlarının siyahısı		17 456
8	Esperanto (eo) Listo de mondĉampionoj pri ŝako		4 281
9	Kazakh (kk) Шахматтан әлем чемпиондары		1 468
10	Belarusian (be) Чэмпіёны свету па шахматах		370

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Чемпионы мира по шахматам		30 976
2	Simple English (simple) List of World Chess Champions		2 289
3	Hebrew (he) אלופי העולם בשחמט		816
4	Ukrainian (uk) Чемпіони світу із шахів		768
5	Azerbaijani (az) Şahmat üzrə dünya çempionlarının siyahısı		438
6	Romanian (ro) Lista campionilor mondiali la șah		316
7	Georgian (ka) ჭადრაკის მსოფლიო ჩემპიონები		175
8	Kazakh (kk) Шахматтан әлем чемпиондары		71
9	Belarusian (be) Чэмпіёны свету па шахматах		10
10	Esperanto (eo) Listo de mondĉampionoj pri ŝako		7

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Чемпионы мира по шахматам		155
2	Hebrew (he) אלופי העולם בשחמט		59
3	Simple English (simple) List of World Chess Champions		45
4	Ukrainian (uk) Чемпіони світу із шахів		19
5	Esperanto (eo) Listo de mondĉampionoj pri ŝako		13
6	Georgian (ka) ჭადრაკის მსოფლიო ჩემპიონები		12
7	Azerbaijani (az) Şahmat üzrə dünya çempionlarının siyahısı		7
8	Romanian (ro) Lista campionilor mondiali la șah		7
9	Belarusian (be) Чэмпіёны свету па шахматах		4
10	Kazakh (kk) Шахматтан әлем чемпиондары		2

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) Şahmat üzrə dünya çempionlarının siyahısı		0
2	Belarusian (be) Чэмпіёны свету па шахматах		0
3	Esperanto (eo) Listo de mondĉampionoj pri ŝako		0
4	Hebrew (he) אלופי העולם בשחמט		0
5	Georgian (ka) ჭადრაკის მსოფლიო ჩემპიონები		0
6	Kazakh (kk) Шахматтан әлем чемпиондары		0
7	Romanian (ro) Lista campionilor mondiali la șah		0
8	Russian (ru) Чемпионы мира по шахматам		0
9	Simple English (simple) List of World Chess Champions		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) Чемпіони світу із шахів		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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