Veselin Topalov

Modern era · Bulgaria · b. 1975

FIDE world champion in 2005 and world number one, with a relentless attacking style.

Career In The Collection

1322Games
302Wins
608Draws
412Losses
46%Score
1991–2025Active
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Head-to-Head Records

Opponent Games Wins Draws Losses
Viswanathan Anand 132 16 75 41 view games
Vladimir Kramnik 102 19 50 33 view games
Vassily Ivanchuk 81 24 39 18 view games
Hikaru Nakamura 77 13 29 35 view games
Alexei Shirov 75 17 37 21 view games
Peter Leko 71 18 36 17 view games
Boris Gelfand 59 17 34 8 view games
Magnus Carlsen 58 6 23 29 view games
Levon Aronian 54 9 27 18 view games
Peter Svidler 53 18 21 14 view games
Judit Polgar 48 18 15 15 view games
Michael Adams 45 9 23 13 view games
Anatoly Karpov 43 12 21 10 view games
Garry Kasparov 42 6 17 19 view games
Sergey Karjakin 41 12 17 12 view games
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 40 7 14 19 view games
Alexander Morozevich 36 18 7 11 view games
Fabiano Caruana 35 6 13 16 view games
Anish Giri 33 7 16 10 view games
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 32 8 15 9 view games
Gata Kamsky 28 8 16 4 view games
Alexander Grischuk 27 7 14 6 view games
Wesley So 24 1 15 8 view games
Jan Timman 16 7 6 3 view games
Nigel Short 14 7 5 2 view games
Ding Liren 13 1 7 5 view games
Viktor Korchnoi 8 4 3 1 view games
Wei Yi 7 1 5 1 view games
Alireza Firouzja 6 1 2 3 view games
Ian Nepomniachtchi 6 0 3 3 view games
Richard Rapport 5 1 2 2 view games
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa 4 1 0 3 view games
Jan-Krzysztof Duda 3 2 0 1 view games
Bent Larsen 1 1 0 0 view games
Hou Yifan 1 0 0 1 view games
Lajos Portisch 1 0 1 0 view games
Vincent Keymer 1 0 0 1 view games

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