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.

Since 1938, there has been a long list of famous winners, including: Max Euwe, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Efim Geller, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, Jan Timman, Anatoly Karpov, Vladimir Kramnik, Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, Magnus Carlsen, and Hikaru Nakamura.

He has since returned to international chess, most notably finishing second behind Veselin Topalov at the M-Tel Masters event.

He is currently a second for World Champion Vishwanathan Anand, having worked with Anand in preparation for and during his successful World Chess Championship title defences in October 2008 against Vladimir Kramnik, April-May 2010 against Veselin Topalov and in May 2012 against Boris Gelfand.

In the tournament, she won playing with the black pieces against Veselin Topalov, at the time ranked fourth in the world.

* Interview with Veselin Topalov

Among his other notable results are first at Terrassa in 1991, joint first at Dos Hermanas in 1995 ( with Kamsky and Karpov ), joint first at Dortmund in 1998 ( with Kramnik and Svidler ) and clear first at Dos Hermanas in 1999, ahead of Kramnik, Anand, Svidler, Karpov, Veselin Topalov, Judit Polgár and others.

Shirov is the winner of numerous international tournaments: Biel 1991, Madrid 1997 ( shared first place with Veselin Topalov ), Ter Apel 1997, Monte Carlo 1998, Mérida 2000, two time winner of the Paul Keres Memorial International Chess Tournament in Tallinn, Estonia, with victories in 2004 and 2005 just to name a few.

During the 1998 Linares chess tournament Shirov played Black against future FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov and won with a piece sacrifice in a bishop and pawn ending:

Furthermore, the dualistic theories were questioned by the Serbian scholar of myths and folklore, Veselin Čajkanović, who compared the solar deity mentioned in Russian historic sources, Dazhbog, with a far darker and chthonic character of Serbian folklore having an almost identical name, Dabog.

Veselin Čajkanović concluded that the cthonic character of Dabog in Serbian folklore fits very nicely with the solar Dažbog mentioned in Russian sources, pointing out that in numerous mythologies, solar deities tend to have double aspects, one benevolent, associated with the Sun during the day, and the other malevolent, associated with night, when the Sun is trapped in the underworld.

* 2005 Garry Kasparov ( with the same score as Veselin Topalov ; won on tiebreak because of more wins with black )

8 and shared fourth place with Veselin Topalov, one point behind winner Vladimir Kramnik, after drawing both his games against Garry Kasparov.

On February 22nd Radjabov defeated FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov ( 2801 ) with the black pieces and subsequently finished second in Linares / Morelia after scoring + 4-2 = 8 in the tournament.

In January Radjabov shared first place at the Category 19 Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee with Veselin Topalov and Levon Aronian, ahead of Kramnik and Anand.

Within days in January 1989, the trio ousted Miljan Radović ( chairman of the Montenegrin Communist League ) and Božina Ivanović ( president of Presidency of SR Montenegro ), replacing them with politically obedient confidants Veselin Vukotić and Branko Kostić, respectively.

However the Cochrane Gambit still appears occasionally as a surprise weapon in serious competition, for example Veselin Topalov drew with it against Vladimir Kramnik at Linares in 1999.

The candidates tournament began with best-of-four game match format in May 2011 in Kazan, with Kamsky facing Veselin Topalov in the quarterfinals.

" I forgot about my fiancée who waited for me to come back from grocery shopping and ended up playing chess the whole night with Danica's brother Veselin Bošković ", Vuk would later admit.

The PCA split from FIDE was finally healed with the FIDE World Chess Championship 2006, a re-unification match between Kramnik and 2005 FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov, which was won by Kramnik.

He placed shared second ( together with Viswanathan Anand ) in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 with 8½ points out of 14 games, finishing 1½ points behind the winner, Veselin Topalov.

She then crushed Veselin Topalov, a former world champion and ranked No. 1 in the world in 2009, 3½ – ½ to win the tournament.

* 2004, a team of computers ( Hydra, Deep Junior and Fritz ), wins 8. 5 – 3. 5 against a rather strong human team formed by Veselin Topalov, Ruslan Ponomariov and Sergey Karjakin, who had an average ELO rating of 2681.

* Veselin Vačkov ( 2000 – 2009 )

In his super-tournament debut in Sofia, Bulgaria at the Grand Slam M-Tel Masters ( Category 20 ) tournament on May 7 – 18, 2008, he came fifth out of six players ( Levon Aronian, Ivan Cheparinov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Teimour Radjabov, Veselin Topalov ) having scored 3. 0 / 10 (+ 1, = 4 ,-5 ; Elo performance 2594 ).

Veselin Topalov – Michael Adams, Dortmund 1996:

According to Veselin Šljivančanin, who was later convicted of war crimes committed at Vukovar, the order to shell Vukovar came " from Dedinje " – the elite Belgrade quarter where Milošević lived.

" However, in her game against Veselin Topalov, Polgár pushed the eventual tournament winner and world champion to a seven-hour marathon before succumbing.

She scored 4½ out of 6 in a double round-robin tournament that included two wins against the world's top-rated player, Veselin Topalov.

In December 2006, Polgár played a six-game match of blindfold rapid chess against former FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov.

Polgár finished tied for third in the strong six-player tournament and handed tournament winner Veselin Topalov his only loss.

The sixth game of the 2010 World Chess Championship between Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov saw Anand making 13 consecutive knight moves ( albeit using both knights ) -– online commentors jested that Anand was trying to solve the Knight's Tour problem during the game.

In October 2006, Kramnik, the Classical World Champion, defeated reigning FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov in a unification match, the World Chess Championship 2006.

After the tournament, negotiations began for a reunification match between Kramnik and the new FIDE World Champion — Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria.

In May 2010 it was revealed that Kramnik had aided Viswanathan Anand in preparation for the World Chess Championship 2010 against challenger Veselin Topalov.

* Veselin Topalov, the challenger to the World Chess Champion title in 2010, confirmed in an interview that he had used a Blue Gene / P supercomputer during his preparation for the match.

Veselin Topalov won the 2005 World Chess Championship.

The current world champion is Viswanathan Anand, who won the World Chess Championship 2007 and successfully defended his title against former world champion Vladimir Kramnik in the World Chess Championship 2008, against Veselin Topalov in the World Chess Championship 2010 and against Boris Gelfand in the World Chess Championship 2012.

In January 2007, Short gave an interview to the Indian newspaper DNA, in which he called for an inquiry to examine allegations that Veselin Topalov cheated during the World Championship in San Luis.

He then successfully defended his title in the World Chess Championship 2010 against Veselin Topalov and in the World Chess Championship 2012 against Boris Gelfand.

Also very valuable are the studies of Russian scholar Boris Uspensky and of Serbian philologist and ethnologist Veselin Čajkanović.

Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov ( pronounced ; ; born 15 March 1975 ) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster.