Kasparov, Garry Age 61

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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 #3 (all players), Peak 2812 (Aug 2017)

Blitz

2712 World #23 (all players), Peak 2812 (Aug 2017)

Born

13 Apr 1963
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union

FIDE ID 4100018

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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 Player	Rating	Black Player	Rating	Result	Moves	Site	Date
51	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	61	Saint Louis	3 Sep 2019
52	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	25	Saint Louis	3 Sep 2019
53	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	23	Saint Louis	2 Sep 2019
54	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	34	Saint Louis	2 Sep 2019
55	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	0-1	38	Saint Louis	2 Sep 2019
56	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	1/2-1/2	42	Saint Louis	2 Sep 2019
57	Topalov, Veselin	2740	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	32	Saint Louis	14 Sep 2018
58	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Topalov, Veselin	2740	1-0	34	Saint Louis	14 Sep 2018
59	Topalov, Veselin	2740	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	17	Saint Louis	14 Sep 2018
60	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Topalov, Veselin	2740	0-1	18	Saint Louis	14 Sep 2018
61	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Topalov, Veselin	2740	1-0	33	Saint Louis	14 Sep 2018
62	Topalov, Veselin	2740	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	19	Saint Louis	14 Sep 2018
63	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Topalov, Veselin	2740	1/2-1/2	33	Saint Louis	14 Sep 2018
64	Topalov, Veselin	2740	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	15	Saint Louis	14 Sep 2018
65	Topalov, Veselin	2740	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	25	Saint Louis	13 Sep 2018
66	Topalov, Veselin	2740	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	24	Saint Louis	13 Sep 2018
67	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Topalov, Veselin	2740	1/2-1/2	88	Saint Louis	13 Sep 2018
68	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Topalov, Veselin	2740	1-0	54	Saint Louis	13 Sep 2018
69	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Topalov, Veselin	2740	1/2-1/2	37	Saint Louis	12 Sep 2018
70	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Topalov, Veselin	2740	1/2-1/2	35	Saint Louis	12 Sep 2018
71	Topalov, Veselin	2740	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	38	Saint Louis	12 Sep 2018
72	Topalov, Veselin	2740	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	47	Saint Louis	12 Sep 2018
73	Topalov, Veselin	2740	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	40	Saint Louis	11 Sep 2018
74	Topalov, Veselin	2740	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	31	Saint Louis	11 Sep 2018
75	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Topalov, Veselin	2740	1/2-1/2	41	Saint Louis	11 Sep 2018
76	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Topalov, Veselin	2740	1/2-1/2	30	Saint Louis	11 Sep 2018
77	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Navara, David	2737	1/2-1/2	39	Saint Louis	18 Aug 2017
78	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	2739	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	48	Saint Louis	18 Aug 2017
79	Aronian, Levon	2799	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	20	Saint Louis	18 Aug 2017
80	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Anand, Viswanathan	2783	1/2-1/2	27	Saint Louis	18 Aug 2017
81	Le, Quang Liem	2739	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	53	Saint Louis	18 Aug 2017
82	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Nakamura, Hikaru	2792	1-0	44	Saint Louis	18 Aug 2017
83	Caruana, Fabiano	2807	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	65	Saint Louis	18 Aug 2017
84	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	2751	1/2-1/2	27	Saint Louis	18 Aug 2017
85	Karjakin, Sergey	2773	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	38	Saint Louis	18 Aug 2017
86	Navara, David	2737	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	32	Saint Louis	17 Aug 2017
87	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	2739	1-0	62	Saint Louis	17 Aug 2017
88	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Aronian, Levon	2799	0-1	36	Saint Louis	17 Aug 2017
89	Anand, Viswanathan	2783	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	56	Saint Louis	17 Aug 2017
90	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Le, Quang Liem	2739	0-1	31	Saint Louis	17 Aug 2017
91	Nakamura, Hikaru	2792	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	71	Saint Louis	17 Aug 2017
92	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2807	0-1	40	Saint Louis	17 Aug 2017
93	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	2751	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	47	Saint Louis	17 Aug 2017
94	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Karjakin, Sergey	2773	1/2-1/2	60	Saint Louis	17 Aug 2017
95	Caruana, Fabiano	2807	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	50	Saint Louis	16 Aug 2017
96	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Le, Quang Liem	2739	1-0	41	Saint Louis	16 Aug 2017
97	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Navara, David	2737	0-1	50	Saint Louis	16 Aug 2017
98	Anand, Viswanathan	2783	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	31	Saint Louis	15 Aug 2017
99	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	2751	0-1	37	Saint Louis	15 Aug 2017
100	Aronian, Levon	2799	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	42	Saint Louis	15 Aug 2017