Longest reigning world champion is Lasker at 27 years with 6 match victories/defenses, 2nd is Alekhine at 17 with 4 match victories/defenses, 3rd is Kasparov at 15 with 6 title defenses/victories (Karpov is 3rd at 16 with 6 defenses if you count the FIDE title during the split but most people don't), 4th is Botvinnik at 13 years with 5 title Chess legend Garry Kasparov in conversation with tech reporter Martine Paris at SXSW 2023. Kasparov gained mythic status in the 1990s as world champion when he beat, and then was defeated by Although the games were very hard fought and exciting, Kasparov opened up a big early lead and won comfortably. With a final score of 12½ to 7½, Garry Kasparov became the PCA Chess Champion–however, he was recognised by the world as the one true World Chess Champion. Kasparov vs Short, 1993. London, England. This incredible Robert Byrne vs Bobby Fischer game, picked by Bobby for his “60 Memorable Games”, is one of the instructive games in our “Bobby Fischer vs Garry Kasparov” course, which explains how the 2 chess world champions played the Sicilian Defense Najdorf variation with such great results. Six years as the undisputed world chess champion and eight in total, Anand’s reign is essentially sandwiched between two of the best players to ever play chess in the form of Kasparov and Two months ago at Zagreb, Kasparov, 58, crashed in five-minute speed chess due to his poor clock management and outdated openings . A slower time limit and the absence of book theory made all the The supercomputer’s success against an incredulous Garry Kasparov sparked controversy over how a machine had managed to outmaneuver a grand master, and incited accusations—by Kasparov and Kasparov’s fifth-round game reached a level ending in which he outwitted the world No 5, Levon Aronian, who is in process of transferring from Armenia to the US, and scored by delicate finessing There he defeated Karpov, the former world champion and often recognized as one of the top 10 players of all time. The next day, in the subsequent rapid knockout event, the 13-year-old was paired with Kasparov, then the number-one player in the world. Remarkably, Kasparov was fortunate to escape with a draw. Leonard Barden. World champion Magnus Carlsen let his great predecessor Garry Kasparov off the hook on Friday night when their much anticipated clash, their first for 16 years, ended in a 55-move 7JK94.