Miguel Najdorf
Classical era · Argentina · 1910–1997
Stranded in Argentina by the war; gave his name to the most analysed Sicilian of all.
Career In The Collection
1000Games
374Wins
475Draws
151Losses
61%Score
1938–1996Active
Head-to-Head Records
| Opponent | Games | Wins | Draws | Losses | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Reshevsky | 51 | 10 | 22 | 19 | view games |
| Svetozar Gligoric | 29 | 3 | 23 | 3 | view games |
| Tigran Petrosian | 16 | 1 | 9 | 6 | view games |
| Bent Larsen | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | view games |
| Paul Keres | 15 | 2 | 11 | 2 | view games |
| Max Euwe | 13 | 2 | 9 | 2 | view games |
| David Bronstein | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | view games |
| Vasily Smyslov | 12 | 0 | 11 | 1 | view games |
| Boris Spassky | 10 | 1 | 8 | 1 | view games |
| Lajos Portisch | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | view games |
| Reuben Fine | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | view games |
| Bobby Fischer | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | view games |
| Mikhail Tal | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | view games |
| Savielly Tartakower | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | view games |
| Jan Timman | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | view games |
| Efim Geller | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | view games |
| Lev Polugaevsky | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | view games |
| Viktor Korchnoi | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | view games |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | view games |
| Anatoly Karpov | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | view games |
| Garry Kasparov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | view games |
| Jose Raul Capablanca | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | view games |
1000 Games · Page 4 of 5
- 1964 vs Raimundo Garcia White Buenos Aires A79 1/2-1/2
- 1964 vs Carlos E Guimard Black Buenos Aires E67 0-1
- 1964 vs Paul Keres White Buenos Aires D25 1/2-1/2
- 1964 vs Rene Letelier Black Buenos Aires B44 1-0
- 1964 vs Julio Luna White ARG-ch A55 1-0
- 1964 vs Alfredo Olivera White Buenos Aires A99 1-0
- 1964 vs Vicente Palermo White ARG-ch D18 1-0
- 1964 vs Tigran Petrosian White Buenos Aires D19 1/2-1/2
- 1964 vs Herman Pilnik Black Buenos Aires E82 0-1
- 1964 vs Mario Pugach Black ARG-ch A24 0-1
- 1964 vs Hector Rossetto White Buenos Aires E05 1/2-1/2
- 1964 vs Jorge A Rubinetti Black Buenos Aires E92 0-1
- 1964 vs Jorge A Rubinetti Black ARG-ch B84 0-1
- 1964 vs Samuel Schweber White ARG-ch A08 1-0
- 1964 vs Samuel Schweber Black Buenos Aires E92 0-1
- 1964 vs Bernardo Wexler White ARG-ch A14 1-0
- 1964 vs Bernardo Wexler Black Buenos Aires E69 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Pal C Benko Black Piatigorsky Cup E92 1-0
- 1963 vs Pal C Benko White Piatigorsky Cup D94 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Svetozar Gligoric Black Piatigorsky Cup E54 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Svetozar Gligoric White Piatigorsky Cup E89 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Paul Keres Black Piatigorsky Cup B43 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Paul Keres White Piatigorsky Cup A85 1-0
- 1963 vs Fridrik Olafsson White Piatigorsky Cup E54 0-1
- 1963 vs Fridrik Olafsson Black Piatigorsky Cup E19 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Oscar Panno Black Piatigorsky Cup E57 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Oscar Panno White Piatigorsky Cup A56 1-0
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian White Piatigorsky Cup D58 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Tigran Petrosian Black Piatigorsky Cup E19 1/2-1/2
- 1963 vs Samuel Reshevsky White Piatigorsky Cup E19 1-0
- 1963 vs Samuel Reshevsky Black Piatigorsky Cup E54 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Jose Luis Alvarez del Monte White Capablanca mem E69 1-0
- 1962 vs Carlos Bielicki White Mar del Plata E55 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Donald Byrne White Mar del Plata E61 0-1
- 1962 vs Victor Ciocaltea Black Capablanca mem B97 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Victor Ciocaltea White Varna olm E66 1-0
- 1962 vs Eldis Cobo Arteaga Black Capablanca mem E61 0-1
- 1962 vs Boris De Greiff Black Capablanca mem B92 0-1
- 1962 vs Jan Hein Donner Black Varna olm E91 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Erich Gottlieb Eliskases White Mar del Plata E55 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Miroslav Filip White Varna olm E55 1-0
- 1962 vs Bobby Fischer Black Varna olm B90 1-0
- 1962 vs Gilberto Garcia Black Capablanca mem E82 0-1
- 1962 vs Svetozar Gligoric White Varna olm E83 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Svetozar Gligoric White Capablanca mem E88 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Ju Gonzalez Black Capablanca mem B92 0-1
- 1962 vs Carlos E Guimard Black Capablanca mem A48 0-1
- 1962 vs Carlos E Guimard Black Mar del Plata A48 0-1
- 1962 vs Ervin Haag White Capablanca mem E62 1-0
- 1962 vs Borislav Ivkov White Capablanca mem D28 1-0
- 1962 vs Eleazar Jimenez Zerquera White Capablanca mem E64 1-0
- 1962 vs Eleazar Jimenez Zerquera White Varna olm E14 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Bent Kolvig Black Varna olm B97 0-1
- 1962 vs Konchi Black Varna olm B97 0-1
- 1962 vs Rene Letelier Black Mar del Plata E70 0-1
- 1962 vs Aleksandar Matanovic White Capablanca mem E92 1-0
- 1962 vs Zdravko Milev White Capablanca mem A25 1-0
- 1962 vs R. Murphy Black Varna olm B95 0-1
- 1962 vs Rogelio Ortega White Capablanca mem E51 1-0
- 1962 vs Ludek Pachman Black Capablanca mem E84 1-0
- 1962 vs Ludek Pachman White Mar del Plata A37 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Nikola Padevsky White Varna olm D45 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Oscar Panno Black Mar del Plata E19 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Bruno Parma Black Mar del Plata C98 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Jonathan Penrose Black Varna olm B92 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Jonathan Penrose Black Mar del Plata B82 0-1
- 1962 vs Francisco Jose Perez Perez Black Capablanca mem E88 0-1
- 1962 vs Wolfgang Pietzsch White Capablanca mem E64 0-1
- 1962 vs Herman Pilnik White Mar del Plata E95 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Lev Polugaevsky Black Capablanca mem E12 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Lev Polugaevsky White Mar del Plata E14 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Lajos Portisch White Varna olm B14 1-0
- 1962 vs Karl Robatsch Black Varna olm B25 0-1
- 1962 vs Karl Robatsch White Varna olm A42 1-0
- 1962 vs Hector Rossetto Black Mar del Plata B95 0-1
- 1962 vs Raul Sanguineti Black Mar del Plata A14 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Siero Black Capablanca mem B25 0-1
- 1962 vs Vasily Smyslov White Mar del Plata D22 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Vasily Smyslov White Capablanca mem E55 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Boris Spassky White Capablanca mem E39 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Boris Spassky Black Varna olm C35 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Laszlo Szabo Black Mar del Plata E82 1-0
- 1962 vs Wolfgang Uhlmann Black Varna olm A53 1/2-1/2
- 1962 vs Wolfgang Unzicker White Varna olm E14 1-0
- 1961 vs Mario Bertok Black Bled B94 0-1
- 1961 vs Carlos Bielicki Black Mar del Plata A36 0-1
- 1961 vs Arthur Bernard Bisguier White Bled E14 0-1
- 1961 vs Robert E Byrne Black Mar del Plata D71 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Ronald Camara White Mar del Plata A70 1-0
- 1961 vs Klaus Darga Black Bled D32 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Christobal Dominguez White Mar del Plata E62 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Jan Hein Donner Black Bled E69 1-0
- 1961 vs Erich Gottlieb Eliskases White Torremolinos C90 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Miguel Farre Mallofre Black Torremolinos E95 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Miroslav Filip Black Mar del Plata D77 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Bobby Fischer White Bled E81 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Efim Geller Black Bled B84 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Milan Germek Black Bled B37 0-1
- 1961 vs Svetozar Gligoric Black Torremolinos B84 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Svetozar Gligoric White Bled E64 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs E. Goldenberg White Mar del Plata D40 1-0
- 1961 vs Wolfgang Heidenfeld White Torremolinos A99 0-1
- 1961 vs Borislav Ivkov White Bled E92 0-1
- 1961 vs Paul Keres White Bled E19 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Rene Letelier White Mar del Plata D55 1-0
- 1961 vs Lopez White Torremolinos E02 1-0
- 1961 vs Aleksandar Matanovic White Bled E64 1-0
- 1961 vs Aleksandar Matanovic White Mar del Plata E14 1-0
- 1961 vs Alberic O'Kelly de Galway White Torremolinos B77 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Fridrik Olafsson White Bled D71 1-0
- 1961 vs Ludek Pachman White Bled D58 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Bruno Parma White Bled E11 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Jorge Pelikan Black Mar del Plata B25 0-1
- 1961 vs Francisco Jose Perez Perez Black Mar del Plata A00 0-1
- 1961 vs Francisco Jose Perez Perez Black Torremolinos B80 0-1
- 1961 vs Tigran Petrosian Black Bled E80 1-0
- 1961 vs Arturo Pomar Salamanca White Torremolinos D45 0-1
- 1961 vs Lajos Portisch Black Bled E69 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Lajos Portisch Black Torremolinos E96 0-1
- 1961 vs Oscar Carillo Quinones Black Mar del Plata B43 0-1
- 1961 vs Enrique Heinrich Reinhardt White Mar del Plata A75 0-1
- 1961 vs Hector Rossetto White Mar del Plata D26 1-0
- 1961 vs Rafael Saborido Black Torremolinos E80 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Roberto Silva Nazzari Black Mar del Plata E82 0-1
- 1961 vs Mikhail Tal Black Bled B92 1-0
- 1961 vs Roman Toran Albero Black Torremolinos A32 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Petar Trifunovic White Bled A08 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Mijo Udovcic Black Bled A49 1/2-1/2
- 1961 vs Bernardo Wexler White Mar del Plata E11 1-0
- 1960 vs Manuel Aaron Black Leipzig olm prel E88 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Osvaldo Bazan Black ARG-ch A16 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Jorge Behrensen White ARG-ch E64 1-0
- 1960 vs Francisco Benko Black ARG-ch A65 0-1
- 1960 vs Carlos Bielicki White ARG-ch C76 1-0
- 1960 vs Milko G Bobotsov Black Leipzig olm fin-A E89 0-1
- 1960 vs Julio Bolbochan Black ARG-ch D75 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Florencio Campomanes Black Leipzig olm prel E67 0-1
- 1960 vs Ennio Contedini Black Leipzig olm prel B45 0-1
- 1960 vs Raul Cruz White ARG-ch E18 1-0
- 1960 vs Carlos De Miguel White ARG-ch A57 0-1
- 1960 vs Christobal Dominguez White ARG-ch E92 1-0
- 1960 vs Joaquim Durao Black Leipzig olm prel B84 0-1
- 1960 vs Erich Gottlieb Eliskases White ARG-ch A36 1-0
- 1960 vs Jaime Emma White ARG-ch A41 1-0
- 1960 vs Rafael Espinoza Flores Black ARG-ch A32 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Max Euwe White Leipzig olm fin-A D19 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Max Euwe Black Leipzig olm prel E69 0-1
- 1960 vs Bobby Fischer Black Leipzig olm fin-A B81 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Alberto Foguelman Black ARG-ch E67 0-1
- 1960 vs Theodor Ghitescu Black Leipzig olm fin-A E81 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Svetozar Gligoric White Leipzig olm fin-A E64 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs E. Goldenberg Black ARG-ch A36 0-1
- 1960 vs Carlos Incutto Black ARG-ch E96 0-1
- 1960 vs C. Merlo White ARG-ch E11 1-0
- 1960 vs Ludek Pachman Black Leipzig olm fin-A B23 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Jorge Pelikan Black ARG-ch B53 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Jonathan Penrose White Leipzig olm fin-A E97 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Enrique Heinrich Reinhardt White ARG-ch E86 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Karl Robatsch White Leipzig olm prel A41 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Samuel Schweber Black ARG-ch E77 0-1
- 1960 vs Bogdan Sliwa White Leipzig olm prel E58 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Laszlo Szabo White Leipzig olm fin-A E64 1-0
- 1960 vs Mikhail Tal White Leipzig olm prel E39 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Mikhail Tal Black Leipzig olm fin-A B82 1-0
- 1960 vs Torgalsen Black ARG-ch B01 0-1
- 1960 vs Wolfgang Uhlmann White Leipzig olm fin-A D75 1/2-1/2
- 1960 vs Wolfgang Unzicker White Leipzig olm fin-A A23 1/2-1/2
- 1959 vs Jacobo Bolbochan Black Mar del Plata A16 0-1
- 1959 vs Joao De Souza Mendes White Mar del Plata D28 1-0
- 1959 vs Jaime Emma Black Mar del Plata A16 1/2-1/2
- 1959 vs Bobby Fischer White Mar del Plata E62 1/2-1/2
- 1959 vs Borislav Ivkov White Mar del Plata A90 1-0
- 1959 vs Rene Letelier Black Mar del Plata E70 1/2-1/2
- 1959 vs Ludek Pachman Black Mar del Plata A24 1/2-1/2
- 1959 vs Herman Pilnik Black Mar del Plata B93 0-1
- 1959 vs Argentino Rodolfo Redolfi White Mar del Plata E59 1/2-1/2
- 1959 vs Hector Rossetto Black Mar del Plata A16 0-1
- 1959 vs Luis A Sanchez White Mar del Plata A11 1-0
- 1959 vs Raul Sanguineti White Mar del Plata D95 1-0
- 1959 vs Ruben Shocron Black Mar del Plata E86 1/2-1/2
- 1959 vs Bernardo Wexler White Mar del Plata E59 1/2-1/2
- 1957 vs Walter Ader Hausman Black Mar del Plata C97 0-1
- 1957 vs E. Albert White Mar del Plata E89 1-0
- 1957 vs Jorge Behrensen White Mar del Plata E66 1-0
- 1957 vs Ronaldo Cantero Black Sao Paulo C55 0-1
- 1957 vs Ronaldo Cantero White Rio de Janeiro zt E54 0-1
- 1957 vs Fernando Casas White Mar del Plata E39 1-0
- 1957 vs Walter Oswaldo Cruz Black Rio de Janeiro zt A53 0-1
- 1957 vs Miguel Cuellar Gacharna Black Mar del Plata B91 0-1
- 1957 vs J. Ducas Black Sao Paulo E80 1/2-1/2
- 1957 vs Mauricio Eidelman White Sao Paulo A60 0-1
- 1957 vs Erich Gottlieb Eliskases Black Mar del Plata A13 1/2-1/2
- 1957 vs Ludwig Engels Black Sao Paulo B50 0-1
- 1957 vs Ludwig Engels White Rio de Janeiro zt D41 1-0
- 1957 vs Alfredo Esposito Black Rio de Janeiro zt A25 0-1
- 1957 vs Alfredo Esposito White Mar del Plata E74 1-0
- 1957 vs Larry Melvyn Evans White Dallas E68 1/2-1/2
- 1957 vs Larry Melvyn Evans Black Dallas A04 1-0
- 1957 vs M. Freitas Black Sao Paulo B37 0-1
- 1957 vs Luiz Jr Gentil White Rio de Janeiro zt E92 1-0
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