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On February 15, 1985, FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess ...
On February 15, 1985, FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess ...
The $1.1 million title match between Gata Kamsky of Brooklyn and World Chess Federation champion Anatoly Karpov–presently underway in Elista, the capital of the Russian Republic of Kalmykia&#… ...
Garry Kasparov vs Anatoly Karpov: The World Championship Rivalry of 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1990. Historic, famous chess games analyzed. 0:00 Intro 0:49 Match 1: ...
Karpov Chess' board and pieces are laid out in a pleasing pseudo-3D arrangement. The small 3D piece models look almost like they're sprite-based, but they definitely have a very realistic look and ...
The first of 20 world championship chess games between grandmasters Anatoly Karpov and Gata Kamsky was adjourned Thursday in the 57th move with the Russian veteran reportedly having a stronger ...
Anatoly Karpov, the former chess champion who is now a member of Russia’s Parliament, was injured in a fall outside the Parliament building in Moscow on Saturday, Russian and international news ...
Chess grandmaster and former world champion Anatoly Karpov, who has waged a highly public campaign in defense of his nomination as Russia's candidate for the presidency of the World Chess ...
Karpov’s conservatism and Kasparov’s radical nature were both present in their chess. “There was something of a clash of titans here, in stylistic view,” Andrew Soltis, American ...
By Jamie Barton, CNN (CNN) — Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World ...
One was Brezhnev, (singer Vladimir) Vysotsky, and the third one was Anatoly Karpov. “The privileges that he got, you cannot imagine. He couldn’t compare with anybody in Russia.” ...