Kasparov, GarryAge 62


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Title
Grandmaster
FIDE Rating
2812
World Rank
#2 (all players)
FIDE Peak Rating
2851 - Jul 1999 (Age 36)
FIDE Peak Rank
#1 (2710) - Jan 1984 (Age 20)
Rapid
2783 World #2 (all players), Peak 2812 (Aug 2017)
Blitz
2712 World #25 (all players), Peak 2812 (Aug 2017)
Born
13 Apr 1963
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
FIDE ID 4100018
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Active Years:
1979 - 2007
Total Games:
2289
Wins:
1257 (55%)
Losses:
161 (7%)
Draws:
871 (38%)
Total score:
74%
Performance :
Performance for the last active 12 months:
2852
White:
E12 Nimzo-Indian Defense (35 games)
C54 Italian Game (30 games)
C42 Russian Game (26 games)
Black:
B90 Sicilian Defense (33 games)
B85 Sicilian Defense (31 games)
B80 Sicilian Defense (23 games)

Undisputed World Champion from 1985 until 1993, and Classical World Champion from 1993 until 2000.

Championship wins:

  • Soviet Junior Championship (1976 and 1977
  • World Junior Champion (1980)
  • Joint Soviet Champion in 1980-81 with Lev Psakhis
  • Kasparov and Karpov tied in the Super-Soviet Championship in 1988
  • Russian Championship Superfinal (2004)

World championship cycles:

  • Won the 1982 Moscow Interzonal tournament
  • Won the Candidates Tournament in 1983-84 to become the Challenger to World Champion Karpov.
  • The 1984 Karpov-Kasparov World Championship match was called off by the FIDE President after 48 games without a final result although(with Karpov retaining the title
  • In 1985, Kasparov the World Championship match in Moscow by 13–11
  • The rematch in 1986 against Karpov was also won by Kasparov
  • The fourth match was played in 1987 in Seville and was drawn.
  • The fifth and last championship match between Kasparov and Karpov in 1990 was won by Kasparov

When the World Championship cycle was split:

  • Kasparov successfully defended his title against Nigel Short in 1993, and
  • against Anand in 1995.
  • In 2000 he lost to Vladimir Kramnik in a match that had no qualifying events.

Further attempts to organize subsequent World Championship matches against Ponomariov and Kasimdzhanov fell through and Kasparov retired from competitive classical chess in 2005.

Major tournament wins

  • Sokolsky Memorial tournament in Minsk (1978)
  • Banja Luka, Yugoslavia (1979) as an unrated player
  • Bugojno, Yugoslavia in 1982
  • Linares (1992, 1993, 1997,1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 & 2005)
  • Wijk aan Zee (1999, 2000, 2001)
  • Sarajevo 2 (1999, 2000) and
  • Astana 1 (2001)

Olympiads

  • Kasparov represented the Soviet Union four times in the Olympiads, in 1980, 1982, 1986 and 1988, and
  • Russia four times: in 1992, 1994, 1996 and 2002
  • He won 19 medals, including 8 team gold medals, 5 board golds, 2 performance golds, 2 performance silvers and 2 board bronzes.
  • Kasparov also played for the USSR in the 1981 Youth Olympiad on board 1 winning the gold medal.

Matches:

Kasparov played numerous matches outside the World championship cycle without losing any. His opponents included:

  • 1981: vs Romanishin (+1 -1 =0); vs Smyslov (+2 -0 =0); and vs Karpov (+0 -0 =2 ) in the 1981 National Match-Tournament, Moscow
  • 1984: vs Timman (+1 -0 =3 in USSR vs World)
  • 1985: vs Ulf Andersson (+2 -0 =4 Belgrade), vs Hübner (+3 -0 =3 Hamburg) and vs Timman (+3 -1 =2 Hilversum)
  • 1986: vs Miles (+5 -0 =1 Basel)
  • 1988: vs Hort (+2 -0 =1 Cologne)
  • 1990: vs Psakhis (+4 -0 =2 Murcia) and vs Hansen (+1 -0 =1 Svendborg)

Computer Matches

  • 1989: Defeated the Deep Thought computer 2-0
  • 1996: defeated IBM's Deep Blue +3-1=2
  • 1997: lost to Deep Blue 3½–2½
  • 2003, drew a six game match against Deep Junior and later that year drew a four-game match against X3D Fritz

Rating

World #1 almost continuously from 1986 until his retirement in 2005. He was the world number-one ranked player for 255 months. When he retired, he was still ranked #1 in the world, with a rating of 2812. In July 1999 and January 2000 Kasparov was officially rated 2851 Elo rating, which has only ever been surpassed by one other player, Magnus Carlsen in 2013. For a period in the early 1990s, Kasparov was over 2800 and the only person over 2700 was Anatoly Karpov.

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Games

#White PlayerRatingBlack PlayerRatingResultMovesSiteDate 
1
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Svidler, Peter
26831/2-1/231Saint Louis16 Sep 2022board
2
Dominguez Perez, Leinier
2745
Kasparov, Garry
28121-020Saint Louis16 Sep 2022board
3
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Nepomniachtchi, Ian
27920-137Saint Louis16 Sep 2022board
4
So, Wesley
2771
Kasparov, Garry
28121-039Saint Louis15 Sep 2022board
5
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
2757
Kasparov, Garry
28121-022Saint Louis15 Sep 2022board
6
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Firouzja, Alireza
27780-132Saint Louis15 Sep 2022board
7
Caruana, Fabiano
2758
Kasparov, Garry
28121-044Saint Louis14 Sep 2022board
8
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Nakamura, Hikaru
27680-158Saint Louis14 Sep 2022board
9
Aronian, Levon
2759
Kasparov, Garry
28121-036Saint Louis14 Sep 2022board
10
Vachier Lagrave, Maxime
2763
Kasparov, Garry
28121-033Saint Louis10 Sep 2021board
11
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Nakamura, Hikaru
27361/2-1/220Saint Louis10 Sep 2021board
12
Svidler, Peter
2701
Kasparov, Garry
28120-126Saint Louis10 Sep 2021board
13
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Caruana, Fabiano
28001/2-1/243Saint Louis9 Sep 2021board
14
Aronian, Levon
2782
Kasparov, Garry
28120-166Saint Louis9 Sep 2021board
15
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Shankland, Samuel L
27201-024Saint Louis9 Sep 2021board
16
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
2762
Kasparov, Garry
28121-034Saint Louis8 Sep 2021board
17
Kasparov, Garry
2812
So, Wesley
27781/2-1/240Saint Louis8 Sep 2021board
18
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Dominguez Perez, Leinier
27601/2-1/255Saint Louis8 Sep 2021board
19
Nepomniachtchi, Ian
2792
Kasparov, Garry
28121/2-1/230Zagreb11 Jul 2021board
20
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Vachier Lagrave, Maxime
27490-143Zagreb11 Jul 2021board
21
Giri, Anish
2776
Kasparov, Garry
28121/2-1/239Zagreb11 Jul 2021board
22
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
27820-126Zagreb11 Jul 2021board
23
Korobov, Anton
2683
Kasparov, Garry
28121-017Zagreb11 Jul 2021board
24
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Anand, Viswanathan
27530-126Zagreb11 Jul 2021board
25
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Duda, Jan Krzysztof
27380-133Zagreb11 Jul 2021board
26
Grischuk, Alexander
2778
Kasparov, Garry
28121-024Zagreb11 Jul 2021board
27
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Van Foreest, Jorden
26881-041Zagreb11 Jul 2021board
28
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Nepomniachtchi, Ian
27920-118Zagreb10 Jul 2021board
29
Vachier Lagrave, Maxime
2749
Kasparov, Garry
28121-047Zagreb10 Jul 2021board
30
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Giri, Anish
27760-132Zagreb10 Jul 2021board
31
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
2782
Kasparov, Garry
28121-07Zagreb10 Jul 2021board
32
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Korobov, Anton
26830-126Zagreb10 Jul 2021board
33
Anand, Viswanathan
2753
Kasparov, Garry
28121-030Zagreb10 Jul 2021board
34
Duda, Jan Krzysztof
2738
Kasparov, Garry
28121-026Zagreb10 Jul 2021board
35
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Grischuk, Alexander
27781/2-1/241Zagreb10 Jul 2021board
36
Van Foreest, Jorden
2688
Kasparov, Garry
28121-025Zagreb10 Jul 2021board
37
Caruana, Fabiano
2818
Kasparov, Garry
28121-059Saint Louis5 Sep 2019board
38
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Caruana, Fabiano
28181-027Saint Louis5 Sep 2019board
39
Caruana, Fabiano
2818
Kasparov, Garry
28121-039Saint Louis5 Sep 2019board
40
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Caruana, Fabiano
28181-036Saint Louis5 Sep 2019board
41
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Caruana, Fabiano
28181/2-1/255Saint Louis5 Sep 2019board
42
Caruana, Fabiano
2818
Kasparov, Garry
28121-013Saint Louis5 Sep 2019board
43
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Caruana, Fabiano
28180-132Saint Louis5 Sep 2019board
44
Caruana, Fabiano
2818
Kasparov, Garry
28120-135Saint Louis5 Sep 2019board
45
Caruana, Fabiano
2818
Kasparov, Garry
28121/2-1/246Saint Louis4 Sep 2019board
46
Caruana, Fabiano
2818
Kasparov, Garry
28121-030Saint Louis4 Sep 2019board
47
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Caruana, Fabiano
28180-125Saint Louis4 Sep 2019board
48
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Caruana, Fabiano
28180-147Saint Louis4 Sep 2019board
49
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Caruana, Fabiano
28180-142Saint Louis3 Sep 2019board
50
Kasparov, Garry
2812
Caruana, Fabiano
28180-136Saint Louis3 Sep 2019board