Word: chess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour at the center in Coolidge Hall, about 60 Soviet scholars and local chess enthusiasts shot. questions at Kasparov, who in 1985 became the youngest chess Grand master in history at age 22. Kasparov, a full member of the Soviet Communist Party since 1984 and a Azerbaijani Central Committee member, will play an exhibition chess match in Cambridge today...
...chess master blamed much of the Soviet Union's problems on Gorbachev. Kasparov, a former backer, said he became disillusioned with the Soviet leader in February when it became clear to him "that Gorbachev only wants perestroika of the system, but the Soviet people want perestroika of the society...
...chess champion also said he wished to forma new political party in the Soviet Union to"destroy the Communist base in the country,slowly...
Kasparov originally joined the party "to avoidcomplications" so he could compete in chess, hesaid. Speaking of his friends now, he added, "Wedon't see any reason to leave it now; we believewe will be expelled quite soon...
...lighter moment yesterday, Kasparov turnedto the chess-playing aspects of his visit. He willbe in Cambridge until Monday on the last stop ofan American tour that included visits to New Yorkand Washington, D.C., and appearances on nationaltelevision...