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 3 of 5
- 1954 vs Vasily Smyslov White World Championship 20th E61 0-1
- 1954 vs Vasily Smyslov Black World Championship 20th B24 0-1
- 1954 vs Vasily Smyslov Black World Championship 20th A04 1/2-1/2
- 1954 vs Vasily Smyslov White World Championship 20th D22 0-1
- 1954 vs Vasily Smyslov White World Championship 20th D83 1/2-1/2
- 1954 vs Vasily Smyslov Black World Championship 20th C15 1-0
- 1954 vs Vasily Smyslov Black World Championship 20th C15 1/2-1/2
- 1954 vs Vasily Smyslov White World Championship 20th E61 1-0
- 1954 vs Gideon Stahlberg White Amsterdam olm A14 1-0
- 1954 vs Laszlo Szabo Black Amsterdam olm D36 1/2-1/2
- 1954 vs Wolfgang Unzicker Black Amsterdam olm C17 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Lev Solomonovich Aronin Black URS-ch20 C48 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Gedeon Barcza White Budapest E49 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Pal C Benko White Budapest D13 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Isaak Boleslavsky White URS-ch20 E68 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs David Bronstein Black URS-ch20 C36 0-1
- 1952 vs Vasily Mikhailovich Byvshev White URS-ch20 D35 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Efim Geller White URS-ch20 E66 1-0
- 1952 vs Efim Geller White Budapest E69 0-1
- 1952 vs Erno Gereben White Budapest A13 1-0
- 1952 vs Boris Petrovich Goldenov White URS-ch20 A13 1-0
- 1952 vs Harry Golombek Black Budapest A21 0-1
- 1952 vs Georgi A Ilivitzki Black URS-ch20 E01 0-1
- 1952 vs Ilia Abramovich Kan White URS-ch20 A30 1-0
- 1952 vs Ilia Abramovich Kan Black URS m training C05 0-1
- 1952 vs Ilia Abramovich Kan White URS m training E68 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Genrikh Kasparian Black URS-ch20 C01 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Paul Keres White URS-ch20 D36 1-0
- 1952 vs Paul Keres Black Budapest A48 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Alexander Konstantinopolsky White URS-ch20 B01 1-0
- 1952 vs Viktor Korchnoi Black URS-ch20 A11 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Cenek Kottnauer Black Budapest E85 0-1
- 1952 vs Isaak Lipnitsky Black URS-ch20 C98 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Oleg L Moiseev Black URS-ch20 D93 0-1
- 1952 vs Alberic O'Kelly de Galway White Budapest A07 1-0
- 1952 vs Tigran Petrosian White Budapest B92 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Herman Pilnik White Budapest D54 1-0
- 1952 vs Hans Platz Black Budapest E35 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Vladimir Simagin White URS-ch20 A25 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Bogdan Sliwa Black Budapest A36 0-1
- 1952 vs Vasily Smyslov Black Budapest C08 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Vasily Smyslov White URS-ch20 D13 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Gideon Stahlberg White Budapest D35 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Alexey S Suetin Black URS-ch20 B63 0-1
- 1952 vs Laszlo Szabo Black Budapest A94 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Jozsef Szily Black Budapest C08 1-0
- 1952 vs Mark E Taimanov White URS-ch20 playoff-1pl D46 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Mark E Taimanov Black URS-ch20 playoff-1pl A85 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Mark E Taimanov White URS-ch20 E40 0-1
- 1952 vs Mark E Taimanov Black URS-ch20 playoff-1pl D45 0-1
- 1952 vs Mark E Taimanov White URS-ch20 playoff-1pl E50 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Mark E Taimanov White URS-ch20 playoff-1pl E40 1-0
- 1952 vs Mark E Taimanov Black URS-ch20 playoff-1pl E58 1-0
- 1952 vs Alexander V Tolush Black URS-ch20 C05 1/2-1/2
- 1952 vs Octavio Troianescu Black Budapest D94 0-1
- 1951 vs Lev Solomonovich Aronin Black URS-ch19 C03 0-1
- 1951 vs Yuri L Averbakh Black URS-ch19 C09 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs Igor Bondarevsky Black URS-ch19 B63 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein Black World Championship 19th D90 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein White World Championship 19th D74 1-0
- 1951 vs David Bronstein Black URS-ch19 D44 0-1
- 1951 vs David Bronstein Black World Championship 19th D15 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein White World Championship 19th E17 0-1
- 1951 vs David Bronstein Black World Championship 19th A08 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein Black World Championship 19th D49 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein Black World Championship 19th D87 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein Black World Championship 19th A91 1-0
- 1951 vs David Bronstein White World Championship 19th D71 1-0
- 1951 vs David Bronstein White World Championship 19th C08 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein Black World Championship 19th D44 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein White World Championship 19th E43 0-1
- 1951 vs David Bronstein White World Championship 19th A91 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein Black World Championship 19th A85 0-1
- 1951 vs David Bronstein White World Championship 19th A94 1-0
- 1951 vs David Bronstein White World Championship 19th E69 0-1
- 1951 vs David Bronstein Black World Championship 19th A85 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein White World Championship 19th A91 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein Black World Championship 19th A14 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein Black World Championship 19th B63 0-1
- 1951 vs David Bronstein White World Championship 19th C08 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein White World Championship 19th E45 0-1
- 1951 vs David Bronstein White World Championship 19th E44 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs David Bronstein Black World Championship 19th A91 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs Salo Flohr Black URS-ch19 D14 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs Efim Geller White URS-ch19 D23 0-1
- 1951 vs Paul Keres White URS-ch19 E26 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs Nikolai G Kopylov White URS-ch19 A81 0-1
- 1951 vs Alexander Kotov White URS-ch19 A53 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs Isaak Lipnitsky White URS-ch19 E51 1-0
- 1951 vs Oleg L Moiseev White URS-ch19 E45 1-0
- 1951 vs Nikolay Alexandrovi Novotelnov White URS-ch19 E45 1-0
- 1951 vs Tigran Petrosian Black URS-ch19 A46 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs Vladimir Simagin White URS-ch19 D49 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs Vasily Smyslov Black URS-ch19 C92 1-0
- 1951 vs Mark E Taimanov White URS-ch19 E40 1/2-1/2
- 1951 vs Evgeny Terpugov Black URS-ch19 A46 0-1
- 1948 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 18th D46 1-0
- 1948 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 18th C08 1/2-1/2
- 1948 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 18th D35 1/2-1/2
- 1948 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 18th D49 1-0
- 1948 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 18th C08 1/2-1/2
- 1948 vs Paul Keres Black World Championship 18th C15 1-0
- 1948 vs Paul Keres Black World Championship 18th C08 0-1
- 1948 vs Paul Keres White World Championship 18th D06 1-0
- 1948 vs Paul Keres Black World Championship 18th A13 0-1
- 1948 vs Paul Keres White World Championship 18th E28 1-0
- 1948 vs Samuel Reshevsky Black World Championship 18th C18 0-1
- 1948 vs Samuel Reshevsky White World Championship 18th E29 0-1
- 1948 vs Samuel Reshevsky White World Championship 18th C49 1-0
- 1948 vs Samuel Reshevsky Black World Championship 18th A91 1/2-1/2
- 1948 vs Samuel Reshevsky White World Championship 18th E51 1-0
- 1948 vs Vasily Smyslov Black World Championship 18th D96 1/2-1/2
- 1948 vs Vasily Smyslov Black World Championship 18th B62 0-1
- 1948 vs Vasily Smyslov White World Championship 18th D76 1/2-1/2
- 1948 vs Vasily Smyslov Black World Championship 18th D22 1/2-1/2
- 1948 vs Vasily Smyslov White World Championship 18th D98 1/2-1/2
- 1947 vs Isaak Boleslavsky Black Chigorin mem C92 1/2-1/2
- 1947 vs Igor Bondarevsky Black Chigorin mem D30 1/2-1/2
- 1947 vs Svetozar Gligoric Black Chigorin mem D95 1/2-1/2
- 1947 vs Paul Keres Black Chigorin mem A95 0-1
- 1947 vs Ratmir D Kholmov White Chigorin mem E47 1-0
- 1947 vs Alexander Kotov Black Chigorin mem A85 1/2-1/2
- 1947 vs Cenek Kottnauer White Chigorin mem D13 1-0
- 1947 vs Nikolay Alexandrovi Novotelnov White Chigorin mem D74 1-0
- 1947 vs Ludek Pachman White Chigorin mem A28 0-1
- 1947 vs Kazimierz Plater Black Chigorin mem B20 0-1
- 1947 vs Viacheslav Ragozin White Chigorin mem E40 1-0
- 1947 vs Vasily Smyslov Black Chigorin mem C90 1/2-1/2
- 1947 vs Alexey Sokolsky Black Chigorin mem B51 0-1
- 1947 vs Petar Trifunovic White Chigorin mem D14 1/2-1/2
- 1947 vs Alexandar K Tsvetkov White Chigorin mem E08 1-0
- 1946 vs Conel Hughes Alexander Black ENG-URS radio C18 1-0
- 1946 vs Conel Hughes Alexander White ENG-URS radio E49 1-0
- 1946 vs Ossip Bernstein Black Groningen B73 0-1
- 1946 vs Isaak Boleslavsky Black Groningen C92 0-1
- 1946 vs Martin Christoffel Black Groningen C17 0-1
- 1946 vs Arnold S Denker White Groningen C83 1/2-1/2
- 1946 vs Max Euwe White Groningen D27 1/2-1/2
- 1946 vs Salo Flohr White Groningen D42 1/2-1/2
- 1946 vs Carlos E Guimard White Groningen C10 1-0
- 1946 vs Alexander Kotov White Groningen E24 0-1
- 1946 vs Cenek Kottnauer White Groningen D35 1-0
- 1946 vs Erik Lundin Black Groningen E18 0-1
- 1946 vs Miguel Najdorf Black Groningen E35 1-0
- 1946 vs Alberic O'Kelly de Galway White Groningen E44 1-0
- 1946 vs Samuel Reshevsky White URS-USA E49 1/2-1/2
- 1946 vs Samuel Reshevsky Black URS-USA C17 0-1
- 1946 vs Vasily Smyslov White Groningen D98 1-0
- 1946 vs Herman Steiner Black Groningen A90 0-1
- 1946 vs Goesta Stoltz Black Groningen C00 0-1
- 1946 vs Laszlo Szabo White Groningen D41 1-0
- 1946 vs Savielly Tartakower Black Groningen C01 0-1
- 1946 vs Milan Sr Vidmar White Groningen E01 1-0
- 1946 vs Daniel Abraham Yanofsky Black Groningen C99 1-0
- 1945 vs Vladimir Alatortsev White URS-ch14 D13 1/2-1/2
- 1945 vs Isaak Boleslavsky White URS-ch14 C79 1-0
- 1945 vs Igor Bondarevsky White URS-ch14 E68 1-0
- 1945 vs David Bronstein White URS-ch14 E68 1/2-1/2
- 1945 vs Vitaly Chekhover Black URS-ch14 C86 0-1
- 1945 vs Arnold S Denker Black USA-URS radio-m D44 0-1
- 1945 vs Arnold S Denker White USA-URS radio-m D13 1-0
- 1945 vs Salo Flohr White URS-ch14 D22 1-0
- 1945 vs Grigory Abramovich Goldberg Black URS-ch14 A34 0-1
- 1945 vs Ilia Abramovich Kan White URS-ch14 D53 1-0
- 1945 vs Aleksandrs Koblencs White URS-ch14 D46 1-0
- 1945 vs Alexander Konstantinopolsky Black URS-ch14 C08 0-1
- 1945 vs Alexander Kotov White URS-ch14 A06 1/2-1/2
- 1945 vs Andor Lilienthal Black URS-ch14 D35 0-1
- 1945 vs Viacheslav Ragozin Black URS-ch14 C59 1/2-1/2
- 1945 vs Boris Ratner Black URS-ch14 D87 0-1
- 1945 vs Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky Black URS-ch14 B62 0-1
- 1945 vs Iosif Rudakovsky Black URS-ch14 E33 0-1
- 1945 vs Vasily Smyslov White URS-ch14 D13 1-0
- 1945 vs Alexander V Tolush Black URS-ch14 C19 0-1
- 1944 vs Vladimir Alatortsev White URS-ch13 D18 1-0
- 1944 vs Isaak Boleslavsky White URS-ch13 C04 1-0
- 1944 vs David Bronstein Black URS-ch13 C92 1-0
- 1944 vs Salo Flohr White URS-ch13 A09 1-0
- 1944 vs Abram Leonidovich Khavin White URS-ch13 D41 1-0
- 1944 vs Alexander Kotov Black URS-ch13 E14 0-1
- 1944 vs Andor Lilienthal Black URS-ch13 D44 0-1
- 1944 vs Georgy Lisitsin Black URS-ch13 A06 0-1
- 1944 vs Vladimir Andreevich Makogonov White URS-ch13 C48 1/2-1/2
- 1944 vs Vladas Mikenas Black URS-ch13 D44 0-1
- 1944 vs Viacheslav Ragozin White URS-ch13 C48 1/2-1/2
- 1944 vs Grigory Ionovich Ravinsky White URS-ch13 D41 1-0
- 1944 vs Vasily Smyslov Black URS-ch13 C19 0-1
- 1944 vs Alexey Sokolsky White URS-ch13 E40 1/2-1/2
- 1944 vs Alexander V Tolush Black URS-ch13 C22 1-0
- 1944 vs Gavriil N Veresov Black URS-ch13 E35 0-1
- 1943 vs Isaak Boleslavsky White Sverdlovsk B83 1-0
- 1943 vs Isaak Boleslavsky Black Sverdlovsk C82 1/2-1/2
- 1943 vs Ilia Abramovich Kan White Sverdlovsk B84 1-0
- 1943 vs Ilia Abramovich Kan Black Sverdlovsk C19 1/2-1/2
- 1943 vs Alexander Konstantinopolsky White Sverdlovsk B14 1-0
- 1943 vs Alexander Konstantinopolsky Black Sverdlovsk C31 1/2-1/2
- 1943 vs Vladimir Andreevich Makogonov Black Sverdlovsk D45 0-1
- 1943 vs Vladimir Andreevich Makogonov White Sverdlovsk D42 1/2-1/2
- 1943 vs Viacheslav Ragozin Black Sverdlovsk A60 1/2-1/2
- 1943 vs Viacheslav Ragozin White Sverdlovsk E44 1-0
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