Mikhail Botvinnik
6th World Chess Champion · Soviet era · Russia · 1911–1995
The patriarch of the Soviet school, world champion in three separate reigns.
Career In The Collection
891Games
406Wins
375Draws
110Losses
67%Score
1926–1970Active
Head-to-Head Records
| Opponent | Games | Wins | Draws | Losses | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vasily Smyslov | 94 | 26 | 48 | 20 | view games |
| Mikhail Tal | 44 | 12 | 20 | 12 | view games |
| David Bronstein | 30 | 7 | 17 | 6 | view games |
| Tigran Petrosian | 27 | 2 | 19 | 6 | view games |
| Paul Keres | 19 | 7 | 9 | 3 | view games |
| Samuel Reshevsky | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | view games |
| Max Euwe | 12 | 2 | 8 | 2 | view games |
| Svetozar Gligoric | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | view games |
| Bent Larsen | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | view games |
| Efim Geller | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | view games |
| Boris Spassky | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | view games |
| Jose Raul Capablanca | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | view games |
| Emanuel Lasker | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | view games |
| Lajos Portisch | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | view games |
| Miguel Najdorf | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | view games |
| Alexander Alekhine | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | view games |
| Reuben Fine | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | view games |
| Lev Polugaevsky | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | view games |
| Savielly Tartakower | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | view games |
| Viktor Korchnoi | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | view games |
| Bobby Fischer | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | view games |
| Rudolf Spielmann | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | view games |
891 Games · Page 1 of 5
- 1970 vs Jan Hein Donner Black Leiden E91 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Jan Hein Donner White Leiden A08 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Jan Hein Donner Black Leiden A84 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Jan Hein Donner White Leiden D37 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Bent Larsen White Leiden E81 1-0
- 1970 vs Bent Larsen Black Leiden A28 1-0
- 1970 vs Bent Larsen Black Leiden B18 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Bent Larsen White Leiden A90 0-1
- 1970 vs Milan Matulovic White Belgrade URS-World B36 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Milan Matulovic White Belgrade URS-World A89 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Milan Matulovic Black Belgrade URS-World B06 0-1
- 1970 vs Milan Matulovic Black Belgrade URS-World B08 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Boris Spassky Black Leiden B19 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Boris Spassky Black Leiden B19 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Boris Spassky White Leiden D31 1/2-1/2
- 1970 vs Boris Spassky White Leiden A26 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Pal C Benko White Hoogovens B36 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Enver Bukic Black Belgrade A90 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Dragoljub M Ciric Black Hoogovens B08 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Zbigniew Doda Black Hoogovens E61 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Jan Hein Donner Black Hoogovens D79 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Efim Geller Black Hoogovens C09 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Efim Geller White Belgrade E69 0-1
- 1969 vs Svetozar Gligoric Black Belgrade D90 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Hans Joachim Hecht White Belgrade E51 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Borislav Ivkov White Belgrade E66 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Dragoljub Janosevic Black Belgrade E92 1-0
- 1969 vs Lubomir Kavalek White Hoogovens E90 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Paul Keres White Hoogovens D41 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Bojan Kurajica White Belgrade D31 1-0
- 1969 vs Kick Langeweg Black Hoogovens A20 0-1
- 1969 vs Levente Lengyel Black Belgrade E91 1-0
- 1969 vs William James Lombardy White Hoogovens B38 1-0
- 1969 vs Aleksandar Matanovic Black Belgrade B06 0-1
- 1969 vs Milan Matulovic Black Belgrade B08 0-1
- 1969 vs Antonio Angel Medina Garcia Black Hoogovens B25 0-1
- 1969 vs Fridrik Olafsson White Hoogovens E03 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Predrag Ostojic White Belgrade A42 1-0
- 1969 vs Predrag Ostojic Black Hoogovens C05 0-1
- 1969 vs Lev Polugaevsky White Belgrade A14 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Lajos Portisch Black Hoogovens D96 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Hans Ree White Hoogovens A29 1-0
- 1969 vs Dragutin Sahovic Black Belgrade B15 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Duncan Suttles White Belgrade A42 1-0
- 1969 vs Georgi P Tringov Black Belgrade B06 1/2-1/2
- 1969 vs Theo D Van Scheltinga White Hoogovens E51 1-0
- 1968 vs Pal C Benko Black Monte Carlo A26 0-1
- 1968 vs Robert E Byrne Black Monte Carlo C18 1/2-1/2
- 1968 vs Mato Damjanovic Black Monte Carlo B72 1/2-1/2
- 1968 vs Gyozo V Forintos Black Monte Carlo A91 1/2-1/2
- 1968 vs Florin Gheorghiu White Monte Carlo A26 1/2-1/2
- 1968 vs Vlastimil Hort White Monte Carlo E69 1/2-1/2
- 1968 vs Bent Larsen White Monte Carlo E62 1/2-1/2
- 1968 vs Jean Claude Letzelter White Monte Carlo A08 1-0
- 1968 vs Nikola Padevsky White Monte Carlo E17 1-0
- 1968 vs Lajos Portisch White Monte Carlo A29 1-0
- 1968 vs Vasily Smyslov White Monte Carlo D25 1/2-1/2
- 1968 vs Wolfgang Uhlmann Black Monte Carlo A84 1/2-1/2
- 1968 vs Sylvain Zinser Black Monte Carlo E91 0-1
- 1967 vs Jacek B Bednarski White Palma de Mallorca A42 1-0
- 1967 vs Isaak Boleslavsky White URS-chT A22 1/2-1/2
- 1967 vs David Bronstein White URS-chT A85 1/2-1/2
- 1967 vs Ricardo Calvo Minguez White Palma de Mallorca A44 1/2-1/2
- 1967 vs Mato Damjanovic Black Palma de Mallorca E81 1-0
- 1967 vs Jesus Diez del Corral White Palma de Mallorca E87 1-0
- 1967 vs Jan Hein Donner Black Palma de Mallorca D79 0-1
- 1967 vs Roman Dzindzichashvili White URS-chT A14 0-1
- 1967 vs Efim Geller Black URS-chT B12 1/2-1/2
- 1967 vs Svetozar Gligoric Black Palma de Mallorca E43 0-1
- 1967 vs Borislav Ivkov Black Palma de Mallorca D75 1/2-1/2
- 1967 vs Eleazar Jimenez Zerquera Black Palma de Mallorca B07 0-1
- 1967 vs K. Khanov White URS-chT D36 1-0
- 1967 vs Bent Larsen White Palma de Mallorca A14 1-0
- 1967 vs Heinz Dr Lehmann White Palma de Mallorca A26 1/2-1/2
- 1967 vs Roman Levit Black URS-chT A48 0-1
- 1967 vs Milan Matulovic White Palma de Mallorca E90 1-0
- 1967 vs Antonio Angel Medina Garcia Black Palma de Mallorca B08 0-1
- 1967 vs Marat Muhutdinov Black URS-chT B08 0-1
- 1967 vs Alberic O'Kelly de Galway Black Palma de Mallorca A88 1/2-1/2
- 1967 vs Tigran Petrosian Black URS-chT D47 1/2-1/2
- 1967 vs Lev Polugaevsky White URS-chT E61 1-0
- 1967 vs Lajos Portisch White Palma de Mallorca D31 1/2-1/2
- 1967 vs Vasily Smyslov White Palma de Mallorca D13 1/2-1/2
- 1967 vs Mark E Taimanov Black URS-chT D70 0-1
- 1967 vs Stefano Tatai Black Palma de Mallorca B15 1/2-1/2
- 1967 vs Roman Toran Albero White Palma de Mallorca B36 1-0
- 1966 vs Yuri S Balashov White Hastings6667 E48 1-0
- 1966 vs Johan Teunis Barendregt Black IBM B12 1-0
- 1966 vs Michael J Basman White Hastings6667 A29 1/2-1/2
- 1966 vs Isaak Birbrager Black URS-chT D13 0-1
- 1966 vs Moshe Czerniak White Hastings6667 A42 1-0
- 1966 vs Salo Flohr Black IBM E11 1/2-1/2
- 1966 vs Efim Geller White URS-chT A26 1/2-1/2
- 1966 vs William R Hartston White Hastings6667 E82 1/2-1/2
- 1966 vs Raymond D Keene Black Hastings6667 E62 1-0
- 1966 vs Franciscus Antonius Kuijpers Black IBM B09 0-1
- 1966 vs Bojan Kurajica White Hastings6667 E49 1-0
- 1966 vs Vladimir M Liberzon Black URS-chT C11 1/2-1/2
- 1966 vs Anatoly S Lutikov Black URS-chT B10 0-1
- 1966 vs Henrique Mecking Black Hastings6667 A88 0-1
- 1966 vs Jonathan Penrose Black Hastings6667 A42 0-1
- 1966 vs Tigran Petrosian White URS-chT A26 0-1
- 1966 vs Arturo Pomar Salamanca White IBM D14 1-0
- 1966 vs Karl Robatsch White IBM D36 1-0
- 1966 vs Vasily Smyslov White URS-chT A25 1-0
- 1966 vs Boris Spassky Black URS-chT B19 0-1
- 1966 vs Leonid Stein White URS-chT A36 1/2-1/2
- 1966 vs Laszlo Szabo Black IBM B37 0-1
- 1966 vs Gyorgy Szilagyi White IBM A07 1-0
- 1966 vs Mikhail Tal Black URS-chT B14 1-0
- 1966 vs Wolfgang Uhlmann Black Hastings6667 D46 1/2-1/2
- 1966 vs Theo D Van Scheltinga White IBM A14 1-0
- 1966 vs Coenraad Zuidema White IBM D75 1-0
- 1965 vs Milko G Bobotsov Black Noordwijk D42 1/2-1/2
- 1965 vs Victor Ciocaltea Black EU-chT B16 0-1
- 1965 vs Jan Hein Donner White Noordwijk D32 1-0
- 1965 vs Salo Flohr Black Noordwijk D13 1/2-1/2
- 1965 vs Svetozar Gligoric White EU-chT D32 1/2-1/2
- 1965 vs Svetozar Gligoric Black EU-chT B12 1-0
- 1965 vs Jacob Kort White Noordwijk A26 1-0
- 1965 vs Kick Langeweg White EU-chT A29 1-0
- 1965 vs Bent Larsen White Noordwijk D36 1-0
- 1965 vs Lothar Schmid White EU-chT E62 0-1
- 1965 vs Lothar Schmid Black EU-chT B07 1/2-1/2
- 1965 vs Laszlo Szabo Black EU-chT D47 1/2-1/2
- 1965 vs Laszlo Szabo White EU-chT E85 0-1
- 1965 vs Alexander V Tolush White Moscow-Leningrad E42 1-0
- 1965 vs Alexander V Tolush Black Moscow-Leningrad B06 0-1
- 1965 vs Petar Trifunovic Black Noordwijk B07 0-1
- 1965 vs Carel Benjamin Van den Berg White Noordwijk A04 1-0
- 1964 vs Yoel Aloni Black Tel Aviv olm fin-A E71 0-1
- 1964 vs Max Blau White Tel Aviv olm prel D94 1-0
- 1964 vs Milko G Bobotsov White Tel Aviv olm fin-A A37 1/2-1/2
- 1964 vs Victor Ciocaltea Black Tel Aviv olm fin-A B18 0-1
- 1964 vs Erich Gottlieb Eliskases Black Tel Aviv olm fin-A A36 1/2-1/2
- 1964 vs Svetozar Gligoric White Tel Aviv olm fin-A D82 0-1
- 1964 vs Kenneth Kirby Black Tel Aviv olm prel B08 0-1
- 1964 vs Rene Letelier Black Tel Aviv olm prel D13 0-1
- 1964 vs Vladimir M Liberzon White URS Spartakiad E89 1-0
- 1964 vs Antonio Angel Medina Garcia White Tel Aviv olm prel E87 1-0
- 1964 vs Vladimir Simagin White URS Spartakiad A10 1/2-1/2
- 1964 vs Bogdan Sliwa Black Tel Aviv olm fin-A A37 1/2-1/2
- 1964 vs Vasily Smyslov White URS Spartakiad A22 1-0
- 1964 vs Leonid Stein White URS Spartakiad E82 1-0
- 1964 vs Laszlo Szabo White Tel Aviv olm fin-A A29 1/2-1/2
- 1964 vs Mikhail Tal Black URS Spartakiad B18 1/2-1/2
- 1964 vs Daniel Abraham Yanofsky Black Tel Aviv olm fin-A B09 0-1
- 1963 vs Aleksander Buslaev White URS-chT A13 1-0
- 1963 vs Vladimir Danov Black URS-chT A36 0-1
- 1963 vs Aivars Gipslis Black URS-chT B06 0-1
- 1963 vs Ratmir D Kholmov Black URS-chT B07 0-1
- 1963 vs Yury P Krutikhin Black URS-chT B75 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian Black World Championship 25th E18 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian White World Championship 25th D27 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian White World Championship 25th D23 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian Black World Championship 25th A21 1-0
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian White World Championship 25th D27 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian White World Championship 25th D31 0-1
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian White World Championship 25th D27 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian White World Championship 25th D27 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian White World Championship 25th A35 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian Black World Championship 25th E35 0-1
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian Black World Championship 25th E14 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian Black World Championship 25th E08 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian Black World Championship 25th D94 1-0
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian Black World Championship 25th E19 1-0
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian White World Championship 25th D31 1-0
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian White World Championship 25th D27 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian White World Championship 25th D31 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian White World Championship 25th D27 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian Black World Championship 25th D32 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian Black World Championship 25th E18 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian Black World Championship 25th A16 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian Black World Championship 25th D97 1-0
- 1963 vs Mikhail Shofman White URS-chT A25 1-0
- 1963 vs Leonid Stein White URS Spartakiad E84 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Mark E Taimanov Black URS-chT E43 0-1
- 1962 vs Jan Hein Donner White Varna olm A24 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Miroslav Filip Black Varna olm E14 0-1
- 1962 vs Bobby Fischer White Varna olm D98 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Martin Johansson Black Varna olm B15 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Hristos Kokkoris Black Varna olm B74 0-1
- 1962 vs Alberic O'Kelly de Galway White Varna olm A14 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Nikola Padevsky White Varna olm E59 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Arturo Pomar Salamanca White Varna olm A08 1-0
- 1962 vs Karl Robatsch White Varna olm A21 1-0
- 1962 vs Wolfgang Uhlmann White Varna olm C05 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Wolfgang Uhlmann Black Varna olm E12 1-0
- 1962 vs Wolfgang Unzicker Black Varna olm B08 0-1
- 1961 vs Manuel Aaron White Hastings6162 A04 1-0
- 1961 vs Leonhard William Barden Black Hastings6162 C02 0-1
- 1961 vs Arthur Bernard Bisguier White Hastings6162 A14 1-0
- 1961 vs Salo Flohr Black Hastings6162 E24 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Svetozar Gligoric White EU-chT A25 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Svetozar Gligoric White Hastings6162 A36 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs John Eric Littlewood Black Hastings6162 B75 0-1
- 1961 vs Ludek Pachman Black EU-chT A30 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Ludek Pachman White EU-chT E69 1-0
- 1961 vs Jonathan Penrose White Hastings6162 E89 1-0
- 1961 vs Francisco Jose Perez Perez Black EU-chT B06 1/2-1/2
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