World Chess Federation

(1) Ala'Addin at Tabrizi (aka Aladdin) 1369-1405 (Tamerlane: "You have no rival in the kingdom of chess." Aladdin could play on 4 boards simultaneously blindfold)

(-) unknown 1406-1459

(2) Charles the Bold 1460-1477 (reputation as the best and most skillful chess player of his time)

(3) Franci de Castellvi 1477-1506

(4) Luis Ramirez de Lucena 1506-1530

(5) Pedro Damiano 1530-1544

(-) unknown 1545-1558

(6) Ruy Lopez de Segura 1559-1574

(7) Leonardo di Bona da Cutri 1574-1587

(8) Paolo Boi 1587-1598 (also defeated Lopez de Segura in 1575)

(9) Allesandro Salvio 1598-1620

(10) Gioacchino Greco 1620-1634 defeated Salvio)

(11) Allesandro Salvio 1634-1640 

(12) Pietro Carrera 1640-1647 (defeated Gerolamo Cascio who had defeated Polerio who had defeated Lopez de Segura)

(-) unknown 1648-1693

(13) Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri 1694-1733 (could play on 4 boards simultaneously blindfold to perfection)

(14) Legall de Kermeur 1733-1755

(15) Francois Philidor 1755-1795) defeated Legall de Kermeur in match in 1755

(16) Dominico Ercole Del Rio 1795-1802 had reputation as "the devil who could never be beaten"

(17) Verdoni 1802-1804 (Philidor alleged Verdoni was the next best player in Europe after himself)

(18) Johann Allgaier 1804-1823 (aka The German Philidor) won a match for 1500 florins ($792) in 1780

(19) Louis Charles Mahe de la Bourdonnais 1823-1836

(20) Jozsef Szen 1836-1839 (aka the Hungarian Philidor) (Szen, after defeating LaBoudonnais 13-12 in an odds match, then challenged LaBourdonnais, putting up $200 francs to   

        play match but LaBourdonnais decided to default)

(21) Karl Mayet 1839-1843 (defeated Szen in match in 1839)

(22) Howard Staunton 1843-1845 (played Saint Amant in 1843 for equivalent of $500 largest prize fund to date at that time)

(23) Charles Saint Amant 1845 (Staunton defaulted on match to take place for equivalent $750 in 1845)

(24) Charles Henry Stanley 1845-1857 (Played Rousseau for $1,000 largest prize fund match in world history, then defeated Turner in 1850 for same amount $$)

(25) Paul Morphy 1857-1884 (defeated Stanley in a match 1857, also defeated in matches Paulsen, Lowenthal, Harrwitz, Anderssen, and De Riviere) 

(26) Johannes Zukertort 1884-1886

(27) Wilhelm Steinitz 1886-1894 (aka the Austrian Morphy) (Steinitz challenged Zukertort for World Championship and won in 1886)

(28) Emmanuel Lasker 1894-1910, WCF World Co-Champion 1910-1916, WCF World Champion 1916-1921

(29) Karl Schlechter WCF World Co-Champion 1910(drew match with Lasker +1-1=8) -1911 (drew match with Tarrasch +3-3=10 making each 1/4 WCF Champions.Lost match to

        Akiba Rubenstein in 1918 losing 1/4 share of title, +1-2=3

(30) Siegbert Tarrasch (1911-1916) 1/4 WCF World Champion as a result of drawn match with Schlechter +3-3=10, lost to Lasker +0-5=1

(31) Akiba Rubenstein (1918-1931 when retired from play) 1/4 WCF Champion  as a result of defeat of Schlechter in 1918 +2-1=3

(32) Jose Raul Capablanca y Graupera 1921-1927 (aka the Cuban Morphy) 3/4 WCF World Champion

(33) Alexander Alekhine 1927-1931 3/4 WCF World Champion, sole WCF World Chess champion from 1931-1935

(34) Max Euwe 1935-1937 WCF World Chess Champion

(35) Alexander Alekhine 1937-1946  WCF World Champion( Alekhine was assassinated by the Soviet NKVD[Pavel Sudoplatov, Nahum Eitingon, Grigory Mairanovsky] upon orders by Stalin (just as Leon

         Trotsky in Mexico and Yevhen Konovalets the Ukrainian independence leader in Netherlands were-as Alekhine had earlier been sentenced to be shot in 1919; after Alekhine

         defeated Capablanca and returned triumphantly to Paris he made a speech at the Russian Club where a splendid reception in his honor had him making a toast that the myth of

         the Bolsheviks being invincible should be dispelled, with the reaction the Soviet state prosecutor Krylenko stated the Soviets would regard him as an enemy to be dealt with,

         followed by in the fall of 1938 the sentencing to be shot was reinstated-case # 228 against A.A. Alekhine with a new supplement of ten pages) so that Soviet controlled FIDE

         could illegitimately create a so-called champion through manipulation via fixing the results of a 1948 match tournament scheme-NKVD Colonel B. Vainstein considered a match

         between Alekhine and Botvinnik to be impossible in principle politically.) In an attempt to cover up the assassination, "The Soviets were anxious to have him (Alekhine) buried

         in Moscow, but his widow refused", Nathan Divinsky, Chess Encyclopedia, 1990.  Keres and Fine were the legitimate crown princes of chess due to AVRO 1938 but Keres in

         1943 several times declined to play Alekhine for the world championship. This left Fine as the sole legitimate WCF World Chess Champion after Alekhine's murder)

(36) Reuben Fine  WCF World Champion 1946-1949. WCF World  Co-Champion 1949 till retirement 1951. Defeated Steiner 5-1 in 1947. After winning New York 1948-49, Fine played a match versus World #2 Miguel Najdorf (2756 ELO per Chessmetrics

         January 1949 list, and remained world #2 through June 1949 per Chessmetrics but Najdorf was not allowed to play in FIDE's so-called 1948 match tournament for their

         so-called championship) which ended in a draw 4-4. Fine remained #1 World ranked per Chessmetrics  as of December 1950. Fine retired in 1951.

(37) Miguel Najdorf (World  co-Champion from 1949-1949 then 1/4 World chess champion after 1949 drawn match +1=10-1 with Petar Trifunovic  then after Fine retired was world  3/4 champion 1951-1952 (Najdorf played Reshevsky in a match for the World Championship

          of the Free World as per the New York Times in 1952, which he lost , Reshevsky winning 11-7

(38) Petar Trifunovic World 1/4 Chess Champion from 1949 after drawn match +1=10-1 with Najdorf

(39) Samuel Reshevsky  WCF 3/4 World Champion 1952-1961 (After winning World Championship of the Free World, Reshevsky won matches versus Gligorich 5.5 to 4.5 in 1952; against Najdorf again 9.5 to

          8.5 in 1953 (per Chess metrics Reshevsky remained world #1 through October 1953; defeated Botvinnik 2.5 to 1.5 in 1955, Lombardy 3.5 to 2.5 in 1956, Bisguier 6-4 in 1957

          and Don Byrne 7-3 in 1957 and Benko 5.5 to 4.5 in 1960

(40) Bobby Fischer 1961-1994 (Reshevsky failed to complete a tied match against Fischer in 1961. Fischer ranked # 1 by Chessmetrics  from February 1964 as well. On April 19, 1964 Fischer challenged FIDE champion Petrosian to a first to 10 wins title match with funds put up by businessman Alex Bisno. The challenge was declined, which gives legitimatcy to Fischer also being FIDE champion from 1964 as well. Defeated

          Spassky in rematch in 1992 (aka WCF 1) after FIDE President Campomanes, a KGB agent from 1978, signed over legal rights to title "The World Chess Championship"             Fischer in 1992. This led to Campomanes falling out of favor with KGB over this and his replacement as FIDE President by Ilyumzhinov through KGB machinations.                        Fischer then retired as undefeated "The World Chess Champion", in 1994.

(41) Stan Vaughan 1994 (WCF 2) 1996 (WCF 3)

1998 (WCF 4-Vaughan vs. Metz II) 2000 (WCF 5-Vaughan vs. Metz III) 2002 (WCF 6- Vaughan vs. Metz IV) 2004 (WCF 7-Vaughan vs. Metz V) 2006 (WCF 8-Vaughan vs. Metz VI) 2008 (WCF 9-with the death of WCF top ranked challenger Metz in 2007, an offer was made to Kasparov to accept a challenge from him which on October 29,2008 via his agent Owen Williams was officially declined. With no other worthy challenge made, no title match took place in 2008) 2010 (WCF 10 - retained title   

        when  official challenger Varuzhan Akobian (winner of American Chess Association 151st US Open Championship) defaulted despite under signed contract with WCF to play             WCF 10 at Las Vegas Riviera Hotel Casino by (11-0),  citing having signed a non compete contract as part of his participation in competitor FIDE World Cup). Vaughan is 

         scheduled to defend against official challenger Ron Gross in 2012 in WCF 11.

See the video regarding the  World Chess Federation qualifying tournament which was open to everyone in the world held at the Riviera Hotel Casino Las Vegas, Nevada USA to determine the 2012 WCF official challenger here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yax4YvAczpk

World Chess Federation "The World Chess Champion" holders are recognized as holders of these prestigious WCF  awards symbolic of their "The World Chess Champion" title:

(1) The King Philip II of Spain  "The Gold Rook necklace of Ruy Lopez"

(2) The Louis XV "The Golden Sceptre of Philidor" and

(3) The Fischer-King cufflinks

About   STAN VAUGHAN,  “The World Chess Champion” of World Chess Federation

I was born in Murray, Kentucky in 1956. Being surrounded by historical sites generated a great interest in history and religion. In 1971 I was recognized with an award by Woodmen of the World as the most outstanding student of American history. As a 4-H Senator as well as member of the Kentucky Junior Historical Society, I drafted a legislative bill which was passed by the Kentucky legislature leading to the preservation of historic covered bridges. At the same time I served a community church as a minister.

In 1975 as a high school senior I was introduced to the great game of chess and developed a passion for it. By 1980 I was the gold medal winner representing the United States at the International Student Games and became American Chess Association national champion the same year, which through 2012 I have won 32 times. My rise eclipsed even that of Paul Morphy, “the pride of America”, whom learned chess in 1846 and won the American Chess Association national championship eleven years later in 1857 or Bobby Fischer, whom learned chess in 1949 and won the national championship of competing organization USCF nine years later in 1958.

In 1982 I set the world record for number of blindfold simultaneous games played (without any assistance of reference to game score sheets) while serving my country in the army.

NOTE WCF World Chess Champion Vaughan has just set a new Guinness World Record of 110 blindfold simultaneous chess game wins!!

Earlier, I got my Masters in Business Administration and earned a  PhD in Accounting. I studied a number of foreign languages and have also since received a PhDs in history and literature. Meanwhile my expertise as a cryptanalyst led to my being noted for having solved two of the most important previously unsolved ciphers in the world: The Shugborough Hall Monument Cipher for which I received an award from the Reform Club for solving, and the Zodiac Serial Killer 340 character cipher. In 1986 I was also National Trivial Pursuit Champion!

In 1988 I set the new world record for the most simultaneous correspondence chess games, playing 1300 games at one time. In 2004 I set the world record for over the board simultaneous games, playing 730 games at one time.

I added to this feat by setting the world blindfold simultaneous games (without any assistance to recourse of games scores being written down) record in 1982, (later breaking my own record upping the record to 57). Note WCF World Chess Champion just set a new world record breaking even that record, with 110 blindfold simultaneous chess game wins!

In 1988 I won the US National Correspondence Chess Championship of the Chess Connection (TCC)  followed by two Mensa World correspondence Chess Championships in 1989 and in 1995. I won the prestigious 3rd, 4th, and 5th World Correspondence Chess Federation Championships, being title holder from 1995-2007

Meanwhile n 1992, FIDE (International Chess Federation) President Florencio Campomanes signed a document to the effect that Robert Fischer continued to be “The World Chess Champion”

Fischer had a competitor to FIDE (International Chess Federation) set up called the World Chess Federation, which owns the worldwide rights to the name World Chess Federation and the worldwide rights to “The World Chess Championship”

Fischer confirmed the title “The World Chess Champion” by defeating Boris Spassky in 1992.

Fischer retired , undefeated and declined to defend the title in 1994, at which time as the challenger and American Chess Association champion titleholder, I became WCF champion and defended the title successfully in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 (also that year Garry Kasparov through his worldwide agent Owen William declined in writing on October 29, 2008 to challenge me for the WCF “The World Chess Champion” title in a WCF sanctioned proposed match) and most recently 2010 retaining the title “The World Chess Champion” when challenger Varuzhan Akobian defaulted rather than violate terms of a non compete contract with FIDE which committed him to playing for a “FIDE organization championship and in which contained a provision prohibiting his competing for the world title which is owned by World Chess Federation. Las Vegas mayors have proclaimed 'Stan Vaughan Days' numerous times in recognizing these achievements as well as those as a chess coach, having coached numerous individual and team scholastic chess champions during the 1980's and 1990's. I am currently scheduled to defend the WCF “The World Chess Champion” title in 2012 against Ron Gross, winner of the Candidates Tournament held in 2010 at the Riviera Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, pending receiving any legitimate challenge for the title in the interim to defend against.

I am the author of the award winning  “Paul Morphy, Confederate Spy”  available from    www.henschelhausbooks.com

This book is the culmination of forty years of historical research on World Chess Champion Paul Morphy as well as simultaneously offering intricate insights from a unique perspective on the War Between the States. In the field of literature I have also written other best selling books as well.

I got a copy of your book about Morphy,I enjoyed reading it, 
very well researched and interesting... thanks       
Juan Jauregui