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

Blitz

2712 World #24 (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
151	Short, Nigel D	2664	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	38	Saint Louis	26 Apr 2015
152	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Short, Nigel D	2664	1-0	40	Saint Louis	26 Apr 2015
153	Short, Nigel D	2664	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	29	Saint Louis	26 Apr 2015
154	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Short, Nigel D	2664	1-0	49	Saint Louis	26 Apr 2015
155	Short, Nigel D	2664	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	53	Saint Louis	26 Apr 2015
156	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Short, Nigel D	2664	1-0	65	Saint Louis	25 Apr 2015
157	Short, Nigel D	2664	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	38	Saint Louis	25 Apr 2015
158	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Short, Nigel D	2664	0-1	33	Saint Louis	25 Apr 2015
159	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Short, Nigel D	2664	1/2-1/2	43	Saint Louis	25 Apr 2015
160	Short, Nigel D	2664	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	36	Saint Louis	25 Apr 2015
161	Habu, Yoshiharu	2415	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	48	Tokyo	28 Nov 2014
162	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Habu, Yoshiharu	2415	1-0	39	Tokyo	28 Nov 2014
163	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Barrish, Daniel	1742	1/2-1/2	47	Cape Town	22 Mar 2012
164	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Cerulik, Roman		1-0	36	Bratislava	14 Oct 2011
165	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Drugda, Branislav		1-0	31	Bratislava	14 Oct 2011
166	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Fiala, Viliam		1-0	43	Bratislava	14 Oct 2011
167	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Foldesi, Marek	2072	1-0	26	Bratislava	14 Oct 2011
168	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Kocisky, Eduard		1-0	26	Bratislava	14 Oct 2011
169	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Mecar, Stefan		1-0	24	Bratislava	14 Oct 2011
170	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Slamka, Pavol		1-0	31	Bratislava	14 Oct 2011
171	Short, Nigel D	2698	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	41	Leuven	9 Oct 2011
172	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Short, Nigel D	2698	0-1	65	Leuven	9 Oct 2011
173	Short, Nigel D	2698	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	35	Leuven	9 Oct 2011
174	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Short, Nigel D	2698	1-0	61	Leuven	9 Oct 2011
175	Short, Nigel D	2698	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	59	Leuven	9 Oct 2011
176	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Short, Nigel D	2698	1/2-1/2	58	Leuven	9 Oct 2011
177	Short, Nigel D	2698	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	51	Leuven	9 Oct 2011
178	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Short, Nigel D	2698	1/2-1/2	66	Leuven	9 Oct 2011
179	Vachier Lagrave, Maxime	2715	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	49	Clichy	17 Sep 2011
180	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Vachier Lagrave, Maxime	2715	1-0	59	Clichy	17 Sep 2011
181	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Barreto Reyna, Estefania		1-0	43	Mexico City	18 Nov 2010
182	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Garcia Almaguer, Juan Manuel	2108	1-0	35	Mexico City	18 Nov 2010
183	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Gutierrez Garcia, Vicente		1-0	26	Mexico City	18 Nov 2010
184	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Lopez de Nava, Hernandez Carlos		1-0	41	Mexico City	18 Nov 2010
185	Karpov, Anatoly	2619	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	25	Valencia	24 Sep 2009
186	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Karpov, Anatoly	2619	1-0	96	Valencia	24 Sep 2009
187	Karpov, Anatoly	2619	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	26	Valencia	24 Sep 2009
188	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Karpov, Anatoly	2619	1-0	56	Valencia	24 Sep 2009
189	Karpov, Anatoly	2619	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	36	Valencia	24 Sep 2009
190	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Karpov, Anatoly	2619	1-0	51	Valencia	24 Sep 2009
191	Karpov, Anatoly	2619	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	17	Valencia	24 Sep 2009
192	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Karpov, Anatoly	2619	0-1	60	Valencia	24 Sep 2009
193	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Karpov, Anatoly	2619	1-0	33	Valencia	23 Sep 2009
194	Karpov, Anatoly	2619	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	36	Valencia	23 Sep 2009
195	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Karpov, Anatoly	2619	1-0	28	Valencia	22 Sep 2009
196	Karpov, Anatoly	2619	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	24	Valencia	22 Sep 2009
197	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Bredl, Harald	2346	1-0	35	Zuerich	23 Aug 2009
198	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Gaehwiler, Gabriel	2247	1-0	35	Zuerich	23 Aug 2009
199	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Bicchierai, Gregory	2090	1-0	26	Bastia	26 Oct 2008
200	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Cristofari, Antoine	2136	1-0	32	Bastia	26 Oct 2008