List of people who have beaten Garry Kasparov in chess

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The following people have beaten Garry Kasparov in a regular game of chess — not a game played at odds. Kasparov is considered to be perhaps the strongest human chess player in history, having reached a FIDE rating of 2851 in January 2000.

Some of the people listed played Kasparov when he was quite young, and some were "Simul" games, where Kasparov took on multiple opponents at the same time. These players are listed with an (S) next to them. Players who defeated Kasparov when he was under 16 years of age have an (U16) by their names.

• Michael Adams (S), simul speed game
• Vladimir Akopian, whom Kasparov called a chess tourist won in a speed game (classical record: +0 -0 =3)
• Viswanathan Anand (classical record: +3-15=30)
• Nikolay Andrianov (U16)
• Yuri Anikaev (U16)
• Alexander Beliavsky defeated Kasparov the year he turned 16, and won another game in 1983.
• Murray Chandler beat Kasparov twice (U16) + (S)
• Hans-Joerg Cordes (S) [1]
• Vereslav Didishko (U16)
• Sergey Dolmatov (U16)
• Alexey Dreev speed games (classical record: +0 -1 =1)
• Krum Georgiev won the only game they played in a rather spectacular fashion: [2])
• Boris Gulko has a plus score against Kasparov (+3-1=4), including a win while Kasparov was world champion, making it three in a row)
• Frank Holzke (S) [3]
• Peter Leko (speed game)
• Konstantin Lerner (U16) (+1-0=1)
• Ljubomir Ljubojevic (+1-11=10)
• Robert Hübner (+2-9=10)
• Alexander Huzman (+1-2=1)
• Vassily Ivanchuk (+6-14=27)
• Markus Kappe (U16) was the only one who defeated Kasparov at the first student-chessworldchampionship in Cagnes-sur-Mer in September 1977
• Anatoly Karpov won a game against Kasparov before he turned 16, has won over 20 games against him since then, and has a narrow minus score, +23-29=137
• Andrei Kharitonov (U16); overall score +1-3
• Viktor Korchnoi is the only non-World Champion to beat both Kasparov and Fischer^{[citation needed]}
• Rostislav Korsunsky (U16)
• Vladimir Kramnik has a +1 score in classical chess, see List of chess games between Kasparov and Kramnik
• Michael Kreitzberg (S)
• Joel Lautier
• Elmar Magerramov (U16)
• Adrian Mikhalchishin (U16)
• Evgeny V Mochalov (U16)
• Danny Mozes (S)
• Diego Mussanti (S)
• Yuri Nikolayevski (U16)
• Tomas Oral (S)
• Tigran Petrosian has an even score against Kasparov (+2-2=1)
• Jeroen Piket
• Judit Polgar beat Kasparov in a rapid game; the only woman on this list.
• Lev Psakhis

• Teimour Radjabov was 15 years old at the time of this game, thus becoming the youngest player in history to defeat the world's #1 player (and did so as Black). He has an equal record (+1-1=1) against Kasparov at a classical time control.
• Yuri Razuvayev (U16)
• Pablo Ricardi
• Oleg Romanishin
• Sergei Rublevsky
• Wofram Runkel (S)
• Mershad Sharif
• Yasser Seirawan
• Michael Monaghan (U16)^{[citation needed]}
• Nathan Sharansky (S)
• Nigel Short
• Fikret Israfil Sideif-Sade (U16)
• Hans-Kristian Simonsen (S)
• Ivan Sokolov
• Vasily Smyslov (U16)
• Boris Spassky has an even record against Kasparov (+2-2=4)
• Jonathan Speelman (rapid game) [4]
• Zurab Sturua (U16)
• Peter Svidler
• David Tebb (S)
• Jan Timman
• Gennadi Timoshchenko (U16)
• Veselin Topalov
• Vitaly Tseshkovsky (U16)
• Alexander Veingold won in 1979, the year Kasparov turned 16.
• Velibekov (first name unknown) (U16)
• Matthias Wahls (S) [5]
• John van der Wiel
• Patrick Wolff (S)
• Leonid Yurtaev (U16) [6]
• Artur Yusupov (+1-12=10)
• Alex Yermolinsky (U16)
• Leonid Zaid (U16)

[edit] See also

• List of people who have beaten Alexander Alekhine in chess
• List of people who have beaten José Raúl Capablanca in chess
• List of people who have beaten Bobby Fischer in chess
• List of people who have beaten Emanuel Lasker in chess

[edit] Further reading

• Karolyi, Tibor; Aplin, Nick (2009), Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him About Chess, Batsford, ISBN 978-1-906388-26-3  (Analysis of 70 games Kasparov lost)
• Kasparov, Garry (2008), Modern Chess: Part 2, Kasparov vs Karpov 1975-1985, Everyman Chess, ISBN 978-1-85744-433-9  (contains his losses to Karpov between 1975 and 1985)

[edit] External links

Source: Chessgames.com