Tigran Petrosian
9th World Chess Champion · Soviet era · Armenia · 1929–1984
Iron Tigran: prophylaxis raised to an art, and almost impossible to beat.
Career In The Collection
1000Games
244Wins
663Draws
93Losses
58%Score
1949–1983Active
Head-to-Head Records
| Opponent | Games | Wins | Draws | Losses | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boris Spassky | 73 | 10 | 53 | 10 | view games |
| Viktor Korchnoi | 66 | 9 | 46 | 11 | view games |
| Mikhail Tal | 40 | 5 | 32 | 3 | view games |
| Efim Geller | 39 | 2 | 33 | 4 | view games |
| Lajos Portisch | 39 | 6 | 26 | 7 | view games |
| Svetozar Gligoric | 38 | 11 | 19 | 8 | view games |
| Paul Keres | 32 | 3 | 26 | 3 | view games |
| Vasily Smyslov | 30 | 4 | 22 | 4 | view games |
| Bobby Fischer | 29 | 4 | 15 | 10 | view games |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | 27 | 6 | 19 | 2 | view games |
| Bent Larsen | 22 | 9 | 9 | 4 | view games |
| David Bronstein | 22 | 4 | 17 | 1 | view games |
| Lev Polugaevsky | 21 | 5 | 14 | 2 | view games |
| Miguel Najdorf | 16 | 6 | 9 | 1 | view games |
| Anatoly Karpov | 13 | 1 | 11 | 1 | view games |
| Samuel Reshevsky | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | view games |
| Jan Timman | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | view games |
| Garry Kasparov | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | view games |
| Max Euwe | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | view games |
1000 Games · Page 2 of 5
- 1979 vs Aleksandar Matanovic White Banja Luka E12 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Anthony J Miles White Clarin A36 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Miguel Najdorf White Clarin E49 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Iivo Nei White Tallinn D30 1-0
- 1979 vs Oscar Panno Black Clarin E17 0-1
- 1979 vs Lajos Portisch White Rio de Janeiro Interzonal D27 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Miguel A Quinteros Black Clarin E09 1-0
- 1979 vs Yrjo A Rantanen White Tallinn A98 1-0
- 1979 vs Oleg M Romanishin Black URS Spartakiad B17 1-0
- 1979 vs Jorge A Rubinetti White Clarin A30 1-0
- 1979 vs Boris Rytov White Tallinn B38 1-0
- 1979 vs Gyula Sax Black Rio de Janeiro Interzonal C08 0-1
- 1979 vs Gyula Sax White Tallinn B08 1-0
- 1979 vs Leonid Shamkovich White Rio de Janeiro Interzonal A04 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Milenko Sibarevic White Banja Luka B13 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Jan Smejkal White Banja Luka A30 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Jan Smejkal White Rio de Janeiro Interzonal A34 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Boris Spassky White URS Spartakiad D55 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Boris Spassky White Clarin D37 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Jaime Sunye Neto Black Rio de Janeiro Interzonal E61 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Mikhail Tal White Tallinn D59 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Marcelo Tempone Black Clarin A13 1-0
- 1979 vs Jan Timman Black Rio de Janeiro Interzonal E81 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Eugenio Torre Black Rio de Janeiro Interzonal C99 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Rafael A Vaganian Black Tallinn A11 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Rafael A Vaganian White Rio de Janeiro Interzonal D59 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Aleksandr Veingold White Tallinn E66 1-0
- 1979 vs Dragoljub Velimirovic Black Rio de Janeiro Interzonal C97 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Jose Luis Vilela White Tallinn A50 1-0
- 1979 vs Andres Vooremaa Black Tallinn B40 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Milan Vukic White Banja Luka E61 1/2-1/2
- 1979 vs Valery I Zilberstein Black Tallinn E95 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Rosendo Carrean Balinas Black Lone Pine op C09 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Alexander G Beliavsky Black Vilnius E19 1-0
- 1978 vs Pal C Benko Black Lone Pine op B22 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Arthur Bernard Bisguier White Lone Pine op E44 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Peter Biyiasas Black Buenos Aires ol (Men) A08 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Hans Bohm White Lone Pine op A40 1-0
- 1978 vs Walter S Browne White Buenos Aires ol (Men) E14 1-0
- 1978 vs Maia Chiburdanidze White Vilnius E66 1-0
- 1978 vs Victor Ciocaltea White Buenos Aires ol (Men) E69 1-0
- 1978 vs John Grantley Cooper Black Buenos Aires ol (Men) E30 0-1
- 1978 vs Istvan Csom White Vilnius A47 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Mato Damjanovic Black Vilnius B81 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Josif D Dorfman White Vilnius A11 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Mark I Dvorietzky White Vilnius D38 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Roman Dzindzichashvili White Buenos Aires ol (Men) D22 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Lutz Espig White Vilnius A53 1-0
- 1978 vs Boris F Gulko White Vilnius D97 1-0
- 1978 vs Dragoljub Janosevic Black Lone Pine op B06 0-1
- 1978 vs Konstanty Kaiszauri White Vilnius A87 1-0
- 1978 vs Gerardo Lebredo Black Vilnius A06 0-1
- 1978 vs Jiri Lechtynsky Black Vilnius B35 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Vladas Mikenas White Vilnius D30 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs John A Peters White Lone Pine op E14 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Gintautas Piesina Black Vilnius A77 0-1
- 1978 vs Lev Polugaevsky White Lone Pine op E16 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Lajos Portisch Black Lone Pine op E52 0-1
- 1978 vs Samuel Reshevsky Black Vilnius E61 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Zoltan Ribli Black Buenos Aires ol (Men) A28 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Amador Rodriguez Black Buenos Aires ol (Men) B04 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Michael Stean Black Lone Pine op A41 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Michael Stean White Buenos Aires ol (Men) D78 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Vladimir B Tukmakov Black Vilnius D37 1/2-1/2
- 1978 vs Wolfgang Unzicker Black Buenos Aires ol (Men) C07 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Andras Adorjan White Sochi A10 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Lev O Alburt White URS-ch45 A57 1-0
- 1977 vs Vladimir Bagirov White URS-ch45 D35 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Yuri S Balashov White URS-ch45 A17 1-0
- 1977 vs George Steven Botterill Black Hastings7778 E46 0-1
- 1977 vs Victor Ciocaltea Black EU-chT C42 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Josif D Dorfman Black URS-ch45 E11 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Joaquim Durao Black Sochi B93 0-1
- 1977 vs Roman Dzindzichashvili White Hastings7778 E19 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs John P Fedorowicz Black Hastings7778 B81 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Lubomir Ftacnik Black Sochi A36 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Efim Geller White Sochi E92 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Efim Geller White URS-ch45 D58 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Svetozar Gligoric White EU-chT D91 1-0
- 1977 vs Karen Ashotovich Grigorian White URS-ch45 B14 1-0
- 1977 vs Boris F Gulko Black URS-ch45 B06 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs William R Hartston Black EU-chT C24 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Vlastimil Hort Black Hastings7778 C01 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Vlastimil Jansa Black EU-chT C07 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Shimon Kagan White Hastings7778 A41 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Hillar Karner Black Sochi A42 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Zlatko Klaric White Sochi D10 1-0
- 1977 vs Alexander Kochyev Black URS-ch45 D27 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Viktor Korchnoi White Candidats qf1 E14 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Viktor Korchnoi Black Candidats qf1 E05 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Viktor Korchnoi Black Candidats qf1 E17 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Viktor Korchnoi White Candidats qf1 D41 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Viktor Korchnoi White Candidats qf1 E15 0-1
- 1977 vs Viktor Korchnoi Black Candidats qf1 A29 1-0
- 1977 vs Viktor Korchnoi Black Candidats qf1 E05 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Viktor Korchnoi White Candidats qf1 E19 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Viktor Korchnoi White Candidats qf1 D41 1-0
- 1977 vs Viktor Korchnoi Black Candidats qf1 D61 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Viktor Korchnoi Black Candidats qf1 E05 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Viktor Korchnoi White Candidats qf1 D41 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Nikolai V Krogius White Sochi E07 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Gennadi P Kuzmin Black URS-ch45 C10 1-0
- 1977 vs A Jonathan Mestel Black Hastings7778 C01 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs John DM Nunn White Hastings7778 A61 1-0
- 1977 vs Alexander N Panchenko White Sochi D02 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Lev Polugaevsky White URS-ch45 A46 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Ivan Radulov Black EU-chT C07 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Nukhim N Rashkovsky Black Sochi D27 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Zoltan Ribli White EU-chT A34 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Oleg M Romanishin Black URS-ch45 A15 0-1
- 1977 vs Gyula Sax Black Hastings7778 C02 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Leonid Shamkovich White Hastings7778 D14 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Vasily Smyslov White URS-ch45 E19 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Liuben Spassov Black Sochi E91 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Jonathan S Speelman White Hastings7778 E69 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Mihai Suba White Sochi D61 1-0
- 1977 vs Alexey S Suetin White Sochi A07 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Evgeny Sveshnikov White Hastings7778 A13 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Evgeny Sveshnikov Black URS-ch45 B22 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Mikhail Tal Black URS-ch45 C16 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Mikhail Tal White Sochi E18 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs James Edward Tarjan White Hastings7778 A16 1-0
- 1977 vs Jonathan D Tisdall Black Hastings7778 B82 0-1
- 1977 vs Vladimir B Tukmakov White URS-ch45 A48 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Simon Webb Black Hastings7778 A11 0-1
- 1977 vs Igor A Zaitsev Black Sochi C02 1/2-1/2
- 1977 vs Valerij Zhuravliov Black Sochi B06 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Ulf Andersson Black Biel Interzonal E18 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Yuri S Balashov Black URS-ch44 B15 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Arthur Bernard Bisguier White Lone Pine A28 1-0
- 1976 vs Robert E Byrne Black Biel Interzonal C41 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Oscar Humberto Castro Rojas Black Biel Interzonal C00 1-0
- 1976 vs Istvan Csom Black Biel Interzonal A14 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Joaquin C Diaz White Biel Interzonal E85 1-0
- 1976 vs Josif D Dorfman White URS-ch44 D43 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Efim Geller White URS-ch44 E89 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Efim Geller White Biel Interzonal E18 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Karen Ashotovich Grigorian White URS-ch44 D41 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Boris F Gulko Black URS-ch44 B94 0-1
- 1976 vs Boris F Gulko Black Biel Interzonal B36 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Robert Huebner Black Biel Interzonal B06 0-1
- 1976 vs Anatoly Karpov White URS-ch44 E19 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Viktor D Kupreichik White URS-ch44 D13 1-0
- 1976 vs Bent Larsen White Biel Interzonal D60 1-0
- 1976 vs Vladimir M Liberzon White Biel Interzonal D37 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Andre Lombard White Biel Interzonal D43 1-0
- 1976 vs William E Martz Black Lone Pine B38 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Aleksandar Matanovic Black Biel Interzonal B17 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Oscar Panno Black Lone Pine D18 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs John A Peters White Lone Pine D41 1-0
- 1976 vs Lev Polugaevsky Black URS-ch44 A28 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Lajos Portisch Black Varese playoff E18 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Lajos Portisch Black Biel Interzonal E54 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Lajos Portisch White Varese playoff E15 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Lajos Portisch Black Varese playoff B06 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Lajos Portisch White Varese playoff A46 1-0
- 1976 vs Miguel A Quinteros White Lone Pine A77 1-0
- 1976 vs Nukhim N Rashkovsky White URS-ch44 A77 1-0
- 1976 vs Kenneth Rogoff White Biel Interzonal A29 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Oleg M Romanishin Black URS-ch44 E60 0-1
- 1976 vs Raul Sanguineti Black Biel Interzonal A41 0-1
- 1976 vs James T Sherwin Black Lone Pine E14 0-1
- 1976 vs Jan Smejkal White Biel Interzonal E65 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Vasily Smyslov Black Biel Interzonal D27 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Vasily Smyslov Black URS-ch44 E18 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Gennadi Sosonko White Biel Interzonal E48 1-0
- 1976 vs Evgeny Sveshnikov White URS-ch44 D14 1-0
- 1976 vs Mark E Taimanov Black URS-ch44 E18 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Mikhail Tal White Biel Interzonal E04 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Mikhail Tal Black Varese playoff C07 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Mikhail Tal White URS-ch44 A30 0-1
- 1976 vs Mikhail Tal White Varese playoff A26 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Mikhail Tal White Varese playoff E18 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Mikhail Tal Black Varese playoff E11 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Vitaly Tseshkovsky Black URS-ch44 C16 0-1
- 1976 vs Rafael A Vaganian White URS-ch44 A34 0-1
- 1976 vs Norman Weinstein Black Lone Pine C07 1/2-1/2
- 1976 vs Alexander V Zakharov Black URS-ch44 C07 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Lev O Alburt Black URS-ch43 D26 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Ulf Andersson Black Las Palmas A14 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Ulf Andersson White Milan A30 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Vladimir Bagirov White URS-chT D47 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Yuri S Balashov White URS-ch43 A30 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Alexander G Beliavsky White Moscow A04 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Alexander G Beliavsky White URS-chT D77 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Alexander G Beliavsky White URS-ch43 B36 1-0
- 1975 vs Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez Black Las Palmas B06 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Hans Bohm White Moscow D18 1-0
- 1975 vs David Bronstein Black URS-ch43 C08 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Walter S Browne Black Milan B42 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Algimantas Butnorius White URS-chT E45 1-0
- 1975 vs Robert E Byrne White Moscow D37 1-0
- 1975 vs Radolfo Tan Cardoso Black Las Palmas B81 0-1
- 1975 vs Roberto Debarnot White Las Palmas E53 1-0
- 1975 vs Josif D Dorfman White URS-ch43 D46 1-0
- 1975 vs Vladimir K Doroshkievich White URS-ch43 A49 1-0
- 1975 vs Mark I Dvorietzky Black URS-ch43 A18 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs A. Fernandez White Las Palmas D37 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Gyozo V Forintos Black Moscow D13 1/2-1/2
- 1975 vs Semen Abramovich Furman White URS-ch43 A12 1/2-1/2
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