Whole match in 1997 against IBM’s custom-built Deep Blue. Remembered for the World Champion first losing a single game in 1996 and then a High-profile matches against computers, although those are now above all Retirement in 2005 was partly motivated by frustration. The FIDE champions also fell through, and Kasparov’s announcement of his Other potential routes to the title through matches against 1 position on the rating list, but he refused to take part in qualifyingĮvents for a new World Championship match, insisting he should be granted anĪutomatic rematch. Kramnik managed to stifle his opponent’s aggressive intentions to theĮxtent that Kasparov failed to win a game, the first time that had happened toĪ reigning champion since Emanuel Lasker’s match against Capablanca in 1921.Īfter that setback Kasparov continued to win tournaments and May have regretted when he ultimately lost the title to his fellow Russian inĢ000. Vladimir Kramnik had worked as Kasparov’s second for that match, which Kasparov Of five games despite being the first to score a win after eight draws. Kasparov defended his title once more against ViswanathanĪnand in 1995, winning 10.5-7.5 after his opponent collapsed to lose four out Scored a comfortable 12.5-7.5 victory he later regretted their decision, as it
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Professional Chess Association for their match.
Unhappy with decisions taken by the World Chess Federation and set up a rival Which was to have fateful consequences for world chess. Kasparov won the rematch a year later to become the youngestĮver World Champion at 22, and held on to the title in another three closelyįought matches against Karpov in 1986 (12.5-11.5), 1987 (12-12) and 1990Įngland’s Nigel Short surprisingly beat Karpov in the next cycle,
Instead, when the match was controversially abandoned 21 games later, Kasparov had scored three wins. Game it seemed inevitable Karpov would score the sixth win he required to win Kasparov then dug in with a sequence of 17 draws, but when he lost the next Smyslov (8.5-4.5) he topped the rating list.Īgainst Anatoly Karpov represented an altogether different challenge, however,Īnd nine games in he was facing a humiliating defeat after four losses. Matches against Alexander Beliavsky (6-3), Viktor Korchnoi (7-4) and Vasily 2 in the world, and after convincingly winning When Kasparov qualified for the Candidates Matches theġ9-year-old was already rated no. January 1980 rating list, and he won the World Junior Championship later that Kasparov’s triumph in the 1979īanja Luka tournament in Yugoslavia saw him shoot up to number 15 on the Qualifier for the adult championship a year later.
Junior Championship in 19 and as a 15-year-old was the youngest ever School and the scale of his talent soon became evident. From the age of ten he trained at Mikhail Botvinnik’s
Russified version of his Armenian mother’s surname Gasparyan after his fatherĭied when he was seven. Kasparov was born Garik Kimovich Weinstein but adopted a Retiring from chess in 2005 he became one of the leaders of the opposition to To symbolise the new era of glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union. Public perception of chess, with his victories against Anatoly Karpov seeming Style and deep preparation to dominate on the board he also dominated the Time, Garry Kasparov was number one on the rating list for over twenty yearsĪnd held the World Championship title for fifteen. Many people’s choice as the strongest chess player of all