He had a peak Elo rating of 2780, and his 90 total months at world number one is second all-time behind only Garry Kasparov since the inception of the FIDE ranking list in 1971.

Garry Kasparov argued that Karpov would have had good chances, because he had beaten Spassky convincingly and was a new breed of tough professional, and indeed had higher quality games, while Fischer had been inactive for three years.

Before age 13 she had broken into the top 100 players in the world and the British Chess Magazine declared, " Judit Polgár's recent results make the performances of Fischer and Kasparov at a similar age pale by comparison.

" She was unaware at the time that the re-move was caught on tape by a television crew: the videotape showed Kasparov's fingers were free of the knight for six frames ( meaning, at 24 frames per second, Kasparov had released the piece for ¼ of a second ).

Polgár had another disappointing result later in the month in the category XVIII tournament in Corus Wijk aan Zee which was won by Kasparov.

However, Polgár drew both her games with Kasparov, the first time in her career she had done this under tournament time controls.

Kasparov had beaten a previous version of Deep Blue in 1996.

The highest ever FIDE rating was 2851, which Garry Kasparov had on the July 1999 and January 2000 lists.

His selection for the team caused some controversy in Russia at the time, as he was only sixteen years old and had not yet been awarded the grandmaster title, but his selection was supported by Garry Kasparov.

This event marked the first time Kasparov had been beaten in a World Championship match.

In February 2004 Kramnik won the Tournament of Linares outright for the first time ( he had tied for first with Kasparov in 2000 ), finishing undefeated with a + 2 score, ahead of Garry Kasparov, the world's highest-rated player at the time.

When Kramnik defeated Kasparov and inherited Kasparov's title, he also inherited some controversies because he was handpicked to play for the title after he had just lost the qualifying match against Alexei Shirov in 1998.

During the re-match with Kasparov, the supercomputer had double the processing power it had during the previous match.

Against Garry Kasparov, Miles had little success, not winning a game against him, and losing a 1986 match in Basel by the overwhelming score of 5½ – ½.

Following this encounter, Miles described Kasparov as a " monster with a thousand eyes who sees all " ( some sources alternatively quote Miles as having the opinion that Kasparov had 22 or 27 eyes ).

" Garry Kasparov has pointed out that the world of chess would have lost one of its " crown jewels " if the game had continued in such an unspectacular fashion.

He was ranked No. 1 in the world from April 2006 to January 2007, during which his Elo rating was 2813, which had been surpassed only by Garry Kasparov, and subsequently by Magnus Carlsen, Anand and Levon Aronian.

One subvariation, frequently played by Karpov, including four games of his 1987 world championship match against Kasparov in Seville, Spain, is the Seville Variation, after 6 ... Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8. Ne2 Nc6 9. Be3 0-0 10. 0-0 Bg4 11. f3 Na5 12. Bxf7 +, long thought a poor move by theory, as the resultant light-square weakness had been believed to give Black more than enough compensation for the pawn.

He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once again after Kasparov broke away from FIDE in 1993.

In the World Chess Championship cycle, Beliavsky qualified for the Candidates Tournament once, losing to eventual winner Garry Kasparov in the quarterfinals of the 1983 Candidates matches.

But rather than these, Kasparov once again found a powerful continuation: a developing move with stronger attacking possibilities.

Rather than launching the race at once, Kasparov made a subtle move to tie down the World Team into a more passive position.

Garry Kasparov described Kramnik's style as pragmatic and tenacious, in the latter similar to Anatoly Karpov.

Nakamura's first supertournament victory came at Wijk aan Zee 2011, finishing clear first ahead of the four top-rated players in the world in a performance described by former World Champion Garry Kasparov as better than any tournament result of Bobby Fischer's, and the best by an American in more than 100 years.

For example, Mikhail Tal and Garry Kasparov frequently played the move h3 in the Ruy Lopez — a prophylactic move intended to prevent Black from playing ... Bg4 and creating an irritating pin on the knight at f3 — yet neither player would ever be described as playing in the prophylactic style.

Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a current world number one player, and has defeated nine current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

At Linares 1994, Polgár suffered a controversial defeat at the hands of then-world champion Garry Kasparov.

At one point Polgár reportedly confronted Kasparov in the hotel bar, asking him, " How could you do this to me?

In September 2002, in the Russia versus the Rest of the World Match, Polgár finally defeated Garry Kasparov in a game.

Kasparov with black chose the Berlin Defence instead of his usual Sicilian and Polgár proceeded with a line which Kasparov has used himself.

Polgár was able to attack with her rooks on Kasparov's king which was still in the centre of the board and when he was two pawns down, Kasparov resigned.

" Polgár thus became one of the players who have beaten Kasparov.

* Polgár – Garry Kasparov, Russia vs.

* September 9 – Judit Polgár beats Garry Kasparov at a game of speed chess.

The field, in eventual finishing order, consisted of Karpov, Kasparov, Shirov, Bareev, Kramnik, Lautier, Anand, Kamsky, Topalov, Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Illescas, Judit Polgár, and Beliavsky.

The 1994 tournament was also noted for an incident in which Garry Kasparov " took a move back " against Judit Polgár.

First members of the ACP were such prominent players as Viswanathan Anand, Péter Lékó, and Judit Polgár, but not Garry Kasparov.

ACM also sponsors other computer science related events such as the worldwide ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest ( ICPC ), and has sponsored some other events such as the chess match between Garry Kasparov and the IBM Deep Blue computer.

* 1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.

Krush gained an additional measure of fame both inside and outside chess circles during the well-publicized " Kasparov versus the World " chess competition in 1999.

" She has fantastic chess talent ", said Kasparov.

The former World Champion Garry Kasparov wrote that, based upon her games, " if to ' play like a girl ' meant anything in chess, it would mean relentless aggression.

* 1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.

* May 11 – IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, the first time a computer beats a chess World champion in a match.

** Chess computer " Deep Blue " defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time.

** In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Garry Kasparov beats " Deep Blue " in a second chess match.

* April 13 – Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player

After Deep Thought's 1989 match against Kasparov, IBM held a contest to rename the chess machine and it became " Deep Blue ", a play on IBM's nickname, " Big Blue ".

P2SC was the processor used in the 1997 IBM Deep Blue chess playing supercomputer which beat chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov.

In January 2003, Garry Kasparov played Junior, another chess computer program, in New York.

Advanced Chess is a form of chess developed in 1998 by Kasparov where a human plays against another human, and both have access to computers to enhance their strength.

In 1997 Deep Blue defeated World Champion Garry Kasparov, marking the first time a computer has defeated a reigning world chess champion in standard time control.

* 1994, first time a chess program ( ChessGenius ) defeated a World Champion ( Gary Kasparov ) at a non blitz time limit.

* ( This book actually covers computer chess from the early days through the first match between Deep Blue and Garry Kasparov.

An avid chess player, Sting played Garry Kasparov in an exhibition game in 2000, along with four bandmates: Dominic Miller, Jason Rebello, Chris Botti, and Russ Irwin.

He is the second of only six chess players to have reached a rating of 2800 ( the first being Kasparov ).

When Garry Kasparov broke with FIDE, the federation governing professional chess, to play the 1993 World Championship with Nigel Short, he created a rift in the chess world.