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Magnus Carlsen set to join Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand as he embarks on a bold new chess chapter
Magnus Carlsen is set to take on a bold new challenge in his storied chess career, joining legends like Kasparov and Anand.
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This week in Philly history, a man and a computer face off in the final match of an intensely followed chess tournament
It routinely matched wits with Russian grand master Garry Kasparov. Their six-game competition, held in Philadelphia in the waning years of the 20th century and on the cusp of Y2K hysteria, hinted at ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
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.” Kasparov, on the other ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov had been abandoned. “I couldn’t come to the Soviet Union, of course. I was an enemy ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
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 Championship match in Moscow between Garry ...