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 ...

GONE were the little red desk-top flags with the Soviet hammer and sickle. But, as they fiddled nervously with their pieces, it was clear that the old rivalry between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov ...

MADRIDMADRID — Garry Kasparov stretched his lead over Anatoly Karpov to 3-1 Wednesday on the second day of an exhibition chess match commemorating the 25th anniversary of their marathon first title ...

Nine games and 25 days in, Karpov had established a seemingly unassailable 4-0 lead. As Kasparov began to get more of a handle on the match, the next 17 games were drawn, before Karpov won again in ...