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
101	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	2739	1/2-1/2	29	Saint Louis	14 Aug 2017
102	Nakamura, Hikaru	2792	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	77	Saint Louis	14 Aug 2017
103	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Karjakin, Sergey	2773	1/2-1/2	44	Saint Louis	14 Aug 2017
104	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Schneider, Karl Heinz	1975	1-0	31	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
105	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Paff, Volker		1-0	32	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
106	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Ophuels, Jan	2030	1-0	26	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
107	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Fischer, Gert		1-0	57	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
108	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Noever, Niklas	1648	1-0	33	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
109	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Schuster, Andreas		1-0	40	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
110	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Ingenerf, Willi		1-0	35	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
111	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Bartels, Simon	1631	1-0	43	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
112	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Kircher, Roger		1-0	41	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
113	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Alonso, Jose Antonio	1906	1-0	28	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
114	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Behne, Michael		1-0	29	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
115	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Stoer, Nathan	1884	1-0	31	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
116	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Goertz, Wolfram		1-0	27	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
117	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Vovchik, Vladimir	1797	1-0	37	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
118	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Fischdick, Werner		1-0	46	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
119	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Falk, Thomas	2094	1-0	35	Moenchengladbach	2 Jun 2016
120	Caruana, Fabiano	2795	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	37	Saint Louis	29 Apr 2016
121	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Nakamura, Hikaru	2787	1-0	63	Saint Louis	29 Apr 2016
122	So, Wesley	2773	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	46	Saint Louis	29 Apr 2016
123	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2795	0-1	34	Saint Louis	29 Apr 2016
124	Nakamura, Hikaru	2787	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	49	Saint Louis	29 Apr 2016
125	Kasparov, Garry	2812	So, Wesley	2773	1/2-1/2	37	Saint Louis	29 Apr 2016
126	Caruana, Fabiano	2795	Kasparov, Garry	2812	0-1	40	Saint Louis	29 Apr 2016
127	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Nakamura, Hikaru	2787	1/2-1/2	70	Saint Louis	29 Apr 2016
128	So, Wesley	2773	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	25	Saint Louis	29 Apr 2016
129	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2795	1-0	69	Saint Louis	28 Apr 2016
130	Nakamura, Hikaru	2787	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	52	Saint Louis	28 Apr 2016
131	Kasparov, Garry	2812	So, Wesley	2773	0-1	41	Saint Louis	28 Apr 2016
132	Caruana, Fabiano	2795	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	60	Saint Louis	28 Apr 2016
133	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Nakamura, Hikaru	2787	1-0	49	Saint Louis	28 Apr 2016
134	So, Wesley	2773	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1-0	26	Saint Louis	28 Apr 2016
135	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Caruana, Fabiano	2795	1/2-1/2	45	Saint Louis	28 Apr 2016
136	Nakamura, Hikaru	2787	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	47	Saint Louis	28 Apr 2016
137	Kasparov, Garry	2812	So, Wesley	2773	1-0	38	Saint Louis	28 Apr 2016
138	Seirawan, Yasser	2620	Kasparov, Garry	2812	1/2-1/2	40	Saint Louis	4 Sep 2015
139	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Matic, Predrag		1-0	31	Pula	19 Aug 2015
140	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Miletic, Boris		1-0	36	Pula	19 Aug 2015
141	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Flego, Valter		1-0	27	Pula	19 Aug 2015
142	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Mikulic, Zdravko		1-0	21	Pula	19 Aug 2015
143	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Josipovic, Ivo		1-0	25	Pula	19 Aug 2015
144	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Rajkovic, Frano	1676	1-0	27	Pula	19 Aug 2015
145	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Franc, Borna		1-0	18	Pula	19 Aug 2015
146	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Radikovic, Anamarija	1637	1-0	42	Pula	19 Aug 2015
147	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Kocijancic, Benjamin		1-0	20	Pula	19 Aug 2015
148	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Lovric, Dino	1696	1-0	36	Pula	19 Aug 2015
149	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Pahljina, Marko	1737	1-0	27	Pula	19 Aug 2015
150	Kasparov, Garry	2812	Ghersinich, Enrico	1779	1-0	32	Pula	19 Aug 2015