Here comes the Chess Champions 

Hey! Yeah'
Here come the Champions 1-2-3 It's all part of my fantasy
I love the moves And I love to see the matches
Movin' on the board and Checkin out loud Yeah Yeah
Here come the Champions 1 by 1
 Your BOSS is callin' But you're havin' fun
You find you're position on that  cloud  9
Put your head together and find the forced win
It's all part of my Chess Championship fantasy
Yeah It's all part of my Chess Championship dream Yeah


It's all part of my Chess fantasy
It's all part of my Chess dream

Yeah Put out the spotlights one and all
Let the feelin' get down to your soul
The Chess is so loud You can hear the moves
Reachin' for the piece and tearin' up the board

It's all part of my Chess fantasy
It's all part of my Chess dream Oh yeah
It's all part of my Chess fantasy
It's all part of my Chess dream Yeah
Chess Fantasy Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Chess Fantasy Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

Here come the Champions 1 by 1
Yeah Put out the spotlights one and all

World Champion

Country

Period

How

Wilhelm Steinitz

Austria/USA

1886- 1894

Defeated Zukertort in 1886

Emanuel Lasker

Germany

1894 - 1921

Defeated Steinitz in 1894

Jose Raul Capablanca

Cuba

1921 - 1927

Defeated Lasker in 1921

Dr. Alexander Alekhine

Russia

1927 - 1935

Defeated Capablanca in 1927

Max Euwe

The Netherlands

1935 - 1937

Defeated Alekhine in 1935

Dr. Alexander Alekhine

Russia

1937 - 1946

Defeated Euwe in 1937

Mikhail Botvinnik

USSR

1948 - 1957

Won the 1948 World Championship tournament

Vassily Smyslov

USSR

1957 - 1958

Defeated Botvinnik in 1957

Mikhail Botvinnik

USSR

1958 - 1960

Defeated Smyslov in 1958

Mikhail Tal

USSR/Latvia

1960 - 1961

Defeated Botvinnik in 1960

Mikhail Botvinnik

USSR

1961 - 1963

Defeated Tal in 1961

Tigran Petrosian

USSR/Armenia

1963 - 1969

Defeat Botvinnik in 1963

Boris Spassky

USSR

1969 - 1972

Defeat Petrosian in 1969 

Robert J. Fischer

USA

1972 - 1975

Defeated Spassky in 1972  

Anatoly Karpov

USSR

1975 - 1985

Won by default when Bobby retired in 1975

Garry Kasparov

USSR/Russia

1985- 2000

Defeated Karpov in 1985

Vladimir Kramnik

Russia

2000 -

Defeat Kasparov in 2000

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