Chess, Six Degrees Of Separation

Post your degrees of separation from a very good chessplayer:

your play in simuls count, also your fast play games, but you must declare the circumstances of the game.

examples:

My dad took chess lessons from Jeremy Silman and I beat my dad.

I won from GMx in a simul. GMx once beat GMy. GMy once beat World Champ Petrosian.

I once drew with Caruna in a simul.

I used to beat a friend who drew Karpov in a simul.

I won 2 blitz games against a GM who drew Radek Wojtaszek who beat WCC Magnus Carlsen and rating #2 Fabiano Caruana in one tournament.

A friend of mine was a student of Donald Byrne, I'm not doing the math on that one. :)

I once played against Najdorf in a simul in Hong Kong. I don't know how to calculate the no. of degrees of seperation from him.

I had several tournament draws against titled players (not simul): 2 IMs (a Hungarian, a Romanian) 1 GM (Lanka, former champion of Latvia). Long games. Ok, also several draws against FMs (don't remember all the names).

Fast play games: win against an IM (15 min game). Another IM i beat in a casual game (without time control). Several blitz wins in the internet against IMs (including one from Portugal).

Lanka played two times draw against Kasparov. The first time Kasparov was 13 years old, but he was already extremely ambitious. It was "only" a draw, and his mother had to console him afterwards, Lanka told me. :)

two degrees of separation [I think]

one degree of separation [I think]

I beat GM Irina Krush back in 2006 during a simul in Vancouver! She was an IM at the time
http://64funsolutions.ca/my-best-games-1

I won a USCF game from GM Bisguier  GM Bisguier once won a game from Bobby Fischer.   2 degrees of separation from a world champ

I also won from Mark Lonoff  USA Correspondence Champion 1 degree of separation

Also won from Leon Stolzenberg  USCF Golden Knights Correspondence Champion  1 degree of separation

I'm one degree separated from Kasparov.  I was playing in a tournament in Manhattan in the early 80s and got back to my home in Brooklyn and was reading Chess Life.  There was an article on women in chess and it mentioned Inna Izrailov from Azerbaijan.  The next morning on the train she was in the very car I got into!  So I knew the best girl player from Baku before I'd even heard of Kasparov.

How do we count 1 degree of separation or 2 degrees of separation?