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