5 Months, 48 Games, No Winner: A Chess Battle Under Spy Agency KGB's Shadow
The 1984-85 World Chess Championship between defending champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Garry Kasparov was abandoned ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
History Today: When Chess champion Garry Kasparov lost a game to a computer
World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game to IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue. This defining moment in ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
the 1984 World Chess Championship began on September 10. 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 ...