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
1	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Svidler, Peter	2683	1/2-1/2	31	Saint Louis	16 Sep 2022
2	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	2745	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	20	Saint Louis	16 Sep 2022
3	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	2792	0-1	37	Saint Louis	16 Sep 2022
4	So, Wesley	2771	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	39	Saint Louis	15 Sep 2022
5	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	2757	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	22	Saint Louis	15 Sep 2022
6	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Firouzja, Alireza	2778	0-1	32	Saint Louis	15 Sep 2022
7	Caruana, Fabiano	2758	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	44	Saint Louis	14 Sep 2022
8	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Nakamura, Hikaru	2768	0-1	58	Saint Louis	14 Sep 2022
9	Aronian, Levon	2759	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	36	Saint Louis	14 Sep 2022
10	Vachier Lagrave, Maxime	2763	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	33	Saint Louis	10 Sep 2021
11	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Nakamura, Hikaru	2736	1/2-1/2	20	Saint Louis	10 Sep 2021
12	Svidler, Peter	2701	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	26	Saint Louis	10 Sep 2021
13	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2800	1/2-1/2	43	Saint Louis	9 Sep 2021
14	Aronian, Levon	2782	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	66	Saint Louis	9 Sep 2021
15	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Shankland, Samuel L	2720	1-0	24	Saint Louis	9 Sep 2021
16	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	2762	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	34	Saint Louis	8 Sep 2021
17	Kasparov, Garry	2812	So, Wesley	2778	1/2-1/2	40	Saint Louis	8 Sep 2021
18	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	2760	1/2-1/2	55	Saint Louis	8 Sep 2021
19	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	2792	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	30	Zagreb	11 Jul 2021
20	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Vachier Lagrave, Maxime	2749	0-1	43	Zagreb	11 Jul 2021
21	Giri, Anish	2776	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	39	Zagreb	11 Jul 2021
22	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	2782	0-1	26	Zagreb	11 Jul 2021
23	Korobov, Anton	2683	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	17	Zagreb	11 Jul 2021
24	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Anand, Viswanathan	2753	0-1	26	Zagreb	11 Jul 2021
25	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Duda, Jan Krzysztof	2738	0-1	33	Zagreb	11 Jul 2021
26	Grischuk, Alexander	2778	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	24	Zagreb	11 Jul 2021
27	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Van Foreest, Jorden	2688	1-0	41	Zagreb	11 Jul 2021
28	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	2792	0-1	18	Zagreb	10 Jul 2021
29	Vachier Lagrave, Maxime	2749	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	47	Zagreb	10 Jul 2021
30	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Giri, Anish	2776	0-1	32	Zagreb	10 Jul 2021
31	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	2782	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	7	Zagreb	10 Jul 2021
32	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Korobov, Anton	2683	0-1	26	Zagreb	10 Jul 2021
33	Anand, Viswanathan	2753	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	30	Zagreb	10 Jul 2021
34	Duda, Jan Krzysztof	2738	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	26	Zagreb	10 Jul 2021
35	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Grischuk, Alexander	2778	1/2-1/2	41	Zagreb	10 Jul 2021
36	Van Foreest, Jorden	2688	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	25	Zagreb	10 Jul 2021
37	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	59	Saint Louis	5 Sep 2019
38	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	1-0	27	Saint Louis	5 Sep 2019
39	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	39	Saint Louis	5 Sep 2019
40	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	1-0	36	Saint Louis	5 Sep 2019
41	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	1/2-1/2	55	Saint Louis	5 Sep 2019
42	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	13	Saint Louis	5 Sep 2019
43	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	0-1	32	Saint Louis	5 Sep 2019
44	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	35	Saint Louis	5 Sep 2019
45	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	46	Saint Louis	4 Sep 2019
46	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	30	Saint Louis	4 Sep 2019
47	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	0-1	25	Saint Louis	4 Sep 2019
48	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	0-1	47	Saint Louis	4 Sep 2019
49	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	0-1	42	Saint Louis	3 Sep 2019
50	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2818	0-1	36	Saint Louis	3 Sep 2019